Reuters: SEOUL, May 25 – Construction at North Korea’s satellite launching station has hit a “new level of urgency,” most likely in preparation for a launch, a U.S.-based think tank said in a report citing commercial satellite imagery. North Korea says it has completed its first military spy satellite, and leader Kim Jong Un has […]
Al Jazeera News: Nepali prosecutors have charged 30 people, including two former cabinet ministers, with corruption in a case involving faking documents for Nepali nationals to enter the United States as Bhutanese refugees. Former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand, former Energy Minister Tope Bahadur Rayamajhi and former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, the most senior […]
Reuters: BEIJING, May 23 – Russia’s prime minister signed a set of agreements with China on Wednesday during a trip to Beijing, describing bilateral ties at an unprecedented high, despite disapproval from the West of their relationship as the war in Ukraine dragged on. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin – the highest ranking Russian official to […]
Reuters: OSLO, May 24 – The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, sailed into Oslo on Wednesday, a first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO force at a time of heightened tension between NATO and Russia over the war in Ukraine. The ship and its crew will be […]
Reuters: ISLAMABAD, May 24 – Pakistan is considering banning former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party for attacking the state, the defence minister said on Wednesday, a decision likely to enrage his supporters and exacerbate his confrontation with the military establishment. The former cricket star is embroiled in the latest, critical phase of a decades old […]
BBC News: British exploration firm Tullow Oil has assumed full ownership of a major Kenyan oil project after its joint venture partners, Canada’s Africa Oil Corp and France’s Total Energies, pulled out. Africa Oil said it abandoned the project to concentrate on regions with high petroleum potential, while Total said it was considering other options. […]
NDTV News: After more than three years, the global Covid emergency is officially over. Yet it’s still killing at least one person every four minutes and questions on how to deal with the virus remain unanswered, putting vulnerable people and under-vaccinated countries at risk. A key question is how to handle a virus that’s become […]
BBC News: India and Australia have announced a new migration deal as they aim to strengthen their economic cooperation. The announcement came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his counterpart Anthony Albanese in Sydney on Wednesday. The deal aims to “promote the two-way mobility of students, graduates, academic researchers and business people”. They also […]
Reuters: BEIJING, May 24- Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday that China was willing to work with Russia to promote their pragmatic cooperation in various fields and take it to a “new level”. Pragmatic cooperation between China and Russia has shown a “good” development trend, and the scale of investment between the two is […]
BBC News: Donald Trump will face a criminal trial in March 2024, a New York judge has ruled, as the Republican’s campaign for the presidential nomination will be in full swing. The former US president received the news at a hearing on Tuesday in the case about the alleged concealment of a payment to a […]