BBC News:- Russia will be cutting the amount of the natural gas it sends to Europe by closing down a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. The news has already caused international gas prices to leap again and renewed fears of shortages. The Russian government is being accused of using gas as a political […]
BBC News:- Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to the country from Singapore, a Sri Lankan lawmaker says. Cabinet spokesperson Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on Tuesday that Mr Rajapaksa was not in hiding but the date of his return was not known. The former leader fled Sri Lanka after mass unrest […]
BBC News:- US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s rumoured plan for a trip to Taiwan has infuriated China and left the White House with a serious geopolitical headache. How big a problem is this? On Monday, China warned of “serious consequences” if Nancy Pelosi were to proceed with a visit to Taiwan in the […]
ALJAZEERA News:- Droupadi Murmu has been sworn in as India’s president, making her the first person from one of the country’s marginalised tribal communities to serve as the head of state. The former school teacher and state governor was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with 64 percent of the vote by members […]
ALJAZEERA News:- The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 has hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants stretches the healthcare system nationwide. The figure has grown since late June, as the BA.4 and BA.5 strains became dominant since they can […]
ABC News:- A bus fell off a bridge Sunday in Kenya and plunged into a river along the highway, killing at least 21 people, police said. The bus, traveling from the central town Meru along the highway to Nairobi, the capital, “must have developed brake failure, because it was at a very high speed when […]
BBC News:- A fast-moving wildfire in California continues to grow in size, firefighters say, as they struggle through sweltering temperatures. The Oak Fire has now burned 15,603 acres of land and is still “zero per cent contained”, California’s fire department said on Sunday night. But it added that the fire activity is not as extreme […]
BBC News:- Moscow has charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity, the head of Russia’s investigative committee has said. Alexander Bastrykin told government news site Rossiiskaya Gazeta over 1,300 criminal investigations had begun. He also proposed an international tribunal backed by countries including Iran, Syria and Bolivia – traditional allies […]
NDTV News:- Liz Truss, the leading candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister, promised to scrap all remaining European Union laws that still apply in Britain by 2023 if she wins the Conservative Party leadership contest. Foreign Secretary Truss is up against former finance minister Rishi Sunak in a race to court the […]
NDTV News:- India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 4,38,68,476 today with 21,411 fresh cases, while the number of active cases increased to 1,50,100, according to Union health ministry data. The death count climbed to 5,25,997 as 67 more people succumbed to the viral disease, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.34 […]
