Al Jazera News:- As the world worried about Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian grain exports in the Black Sea in late June, Vladimir Putin had a different trade route on his mind. Addressing leaders of nations that sit on the Caspian Sea, the Russian president spoke of a “truly ambitious project” as the centrepiece of Moscow’s […]
Reuters: – Barely a kilometre from Russian positions defending the captured eastern city of Izium, Ukrainian and foreign fighters hunker in a dank basement. Artillery rains down on them most nights, shaking loose the plaster and filling the air with dust. At the sharp end of efforts to stop the Russian army’s progress in eastern […]
Reuters:- South Korea’s prime minister said on Wednesday he would recommend to the president a pardon for Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of the world’s biggest memory chip maker, Samsung Electronics (005930.KS). Lee, heir to the world’s second-largest contract chip maker, was convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January last year but got parole in […]
BBC News:- A member of a gang of monkeys that has terrorised residents of a Japanese city for weeks has been caught and killed, officials say. The macaques have injured almost 50 people in Yamaguchi. The male primate was found in the grounds of a high school on Tuesday evening by specially commissioned hunters. It […]
BBC News:- The US Justice Department is examining Donald Trump’s actions in connection with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, say US media. Federal prosecutors have reportedly asked witnesses directly about the behaviour of the former US president. So far, they have chosen not to open a formal criminal investigation into Mr […]
NDTV News:- It was a dream come true for five dozen people of Odisha’s tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district as they got the opportunity to have lunch with newly elected President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan. All 60 people from Ms Murmu’s home district, invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the country’s first tribal president, were […]
India Today:- Deutsche Lufthansa said it was cancelling more than 1,000 flights ahead of a one-day walkout by ground staff scheduled for Wednesday, just as families across Germany head off on their summer holidays. Strikes and staff shortages have already forced airlines including Lufthansa to cancel thousands of flights and caused hours-long queues at major […]
India Today:- A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, badly damaging a hospital and buildings in a northern province and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila. A hospital in Abra province was evacuated after the building partially collapsed following the quake, but there […]
AL JAZEERA News:- At least 15 people have been killed on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s turbulent northeastern region, in attacks UN chief Antonio Guterres said could constitute a ‘war crime’. Protests erupted on Monday as crowds took to the streets of North Kivu province’s main […]
Reuters: – Japanese defence forces will participate for the first time in military exercises in Indonesia next month alongside the United States and Australia, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday after talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The two leaders also agreed to cooperate more closely on energy during their second meeting this […]
