Reuters: KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim is expected to start discussions on forming his cabinet on Friday as he begins work as prime minister at a challenging time, with the economy slowing and the country deeply split after a close election. Anwar, 75, was sworn in as premier on Thursday, capping a […]
BBC News: The OneLove armband with a rainbow flag in the shape of a heart and was going to be worn by team captains from seven nations to protest Qatar’s laws against same-sex relationships. But football’s world governing body Fifa said they would give a yellow card to any player wearing it, so the teams […]
NDTV News: A mother and her minor son were burnt alive after an LPG cylinder caught fire and exploded in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. The incident occurred in Chandimarh village of the Surankote subdivision. The victims were identified as Hamida Begum (40) and Aqib Ahmed (4), police said. Three other […]
Reuters: HELSINKI, Nov 24 – The European Union is pressing ahead with a ninth sanctions package on Russia in response to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said during a visit to Finland on Thursday. “We are working hard to hit Russia where it hurts to blunt even further its […]
ZEE News: The European Parliament has declared Russia ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ over its war on Ukraine, reported AFP, and urged the 27-nation EU to look to follow suit. “The deliberate attacks and atrocities carried out by the Russian Federation against the civilian population of Ukraine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure and other serious violation […]
Reuters: SEOUL, Nov 24 – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol pledged on Thursday to step up efforts to boost weapons exports and secure cutting-edge defence technologies as he aims to build the country’s weapons industry into the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. Yoon hosted a meeting on promoting defence exports for the first time since taking […]
Reuters: WASHINGTON/KYIV, Nov 24 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to act against Russia over air strikes on civilian infrastructure that again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in. Russia unleashed a missile barrage across Ukraine on Wednesday, killing 10 people, forcing shutdowns of nuclear power […]
India Today: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was elected on Wednesday with a huge margin of votes for the House of Representatives for the seventh consecutive time, with his ruling Nepali Congress party leading in the election tally by winning 19 seats so far. Deuba’s predecessor and opposition CPN-UML leader K P Sharma Oli […]
BBC News: A gunman has killed up to 10 people in a Walmart supermarket in Chesapeake, in the US state of Virginia, police say. A man believed to be the store manager opened fire then turned the gun on himself, and is now dead. The City of Chesapeake tweeted “police confirm an active shooter incident […]
BBC News: King Charles has spoken of the strong friendship between the late Queen Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela, as the King hosted a state visit by South Africa’s current president. At a banquet in Buckingham Palace, the King welcomed Cyril Ramaphosa and hailed the cultural and trading links between the UK and South Africa. But […]
