ABC News: TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders of Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. Pelosi, the first U.S. speaker to visit the island in more than […]
BBC News: Kansas voters have chosen to uphold abortion rights in the first electoral test of the deeply polarising issue since the US Supreme Court allowed states to ban the procedure outright. Voters overwhelmingly said they did not wish to amend the state constitution to assert there is no right to abortion. If the ballot […]
BBC News: Russia has accused the US of direct involvement in the war in Ukraine for the first time. A spokesperson for Moscow’s defence ministry alleged the US was approving targets for American-made Himars artillery used by Kyiv’s forces. Lt Gen Igor Konashenkov said intercepted calls between Ukrainian officials revealed the link. The BBC could […]
BBC News: US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in a visit that has been strongly condemned by China. Ms Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit Taiwan, said her delegation had come to make it “unequivocally clear” that the US would not “abandon” the island. China had […]
India Today: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a 34 point lead over former finance minister Rishi Sunak among the Conservative Party members who will decide Britain’s next prime minister, a YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed on Tuesday. The poll, which The Times said was conducted over the past five days, showed 60% support […]
NDTV News: Former Nepal prime minister K P Sharma Oli has claimed that he was removed from power last year after his government published a new map of Nepal that included Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh as its territories. The Lipulekh pass is a far western point near Kalapani, a disputed border area between Nepal and India. […]
Hindustan Times: Senior diplomat Ruchira Kamboj who took charge as India’s new permanent representative to the United Nations on Tuesday presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In a tweet, she said it was a privilege to be the first Indian woman to be given the honour to hold this position. She also slipped […]
BBC News: China has branded a landmark visit to Taiwan by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “extremely dangerous”. It accused Ms Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit the island China claims as its own, of “playing with fire”. “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” Beijing warned in […]
NDTV News: A Bangkok-bound Indian man was caught at the Delhi airport today for carrying US dollars worth over ₹ 15 lakh by allegedly concealing them inside layers of crunchy ‘papad’ packets, a senior officer said. The passenger was intercepted around 5 am during security checks at the terminal-III of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) […]
ABC News: India will give a $100 million line of credit to the Maldives to support development projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday after holding talks with his counterpart, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Solih arrived in India on Monday for a four-day visit. The two countries inked six agreements to boost cooperation in […]
