India Today: The race to replace Boris Johnson as the Conservative Party leader and the British Prime Minister is in a final countdown stage on Friday, when voting officially closes for Tory members to choose between former Chancellor Rishi Sunak or Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. Sunak, 42, and Truss, 47, have gone head-to-head in a […]
ALJAZEERA News: Russia has launched week-long military drills involving forces from China and other nations, an exercise that shows growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the United States. The large-scale manoeuvres also seem to be intended to demonstrate that Russia has sufficient military might for enormous drills even […]
India Today: The wait is over. The first ever India-made aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, is all set to be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today at the Cochin Shipyard. INS Vikrant is the largest ship ever built in India’s maritime history at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore. The Prime Minister will commission the […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Sept 2- Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Friday urged all creditor nations to discuss Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring, after the crisis-hit South Asian nation reached a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. “It’s important for all creditor nations, including China and India, to gather to discuss Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring,” Suzuki […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Sept 2 – Taiwan’s shooting down of a drone off the Chinese coast that buzzed a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings, and China should exercise restraint, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday. Taiwan’s military for the first time shot down an unidentified civilian drone that […]
ABC News: CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government announced on Friday it will increase its permanent immigration intake by 35,000 to 195,000 in the current fiscal year as the nation grapples with skills and labor shortages. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil announced the increase for the year ending June 30, 2023, during a two-day summit […]
BBC News: Supporters of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (Maga) agenda are a threat to democracy, President Joe Biden has said. “Maga forces are determined to take this country backwards,” he said in a primetime speech in Pennsylvania. Top Republican Kevin McCarthy hit back that Mr Biden had “severely wounded America’s soul”. The duelling […]
BBC News: UN nuclear experts have made their first inspection of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine and are to maintain a presence there. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the “plant and physical integrity of the plant” had been “violated several times”. The inspectors were accompanied to the plant by Russian […]
NDTV News: Rishi Sunak struck a personal note in the final hustings event before the election for a new Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister concludes, as he thanked his parents and wife Akshata Murty for their support. Addressing a teeming concert venue at Wembley in London on Wednesday night, the Indian-origin former Chancellor […]
Reuters: PRISTINA/BELGRADE, Sept 1 – Kosovo, Serbia and NATO peacekeepers were bracing for a new wave of ethnic tensions on Thursday, hours after Pristina announced that some 50,000 ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo would have a two-month window to switch over their car license plates. Kosovo, which is predominantly ethnic Albanian, has sought to […]
