Reuters: – China reported 366 new COVID-19 infections on July 13, of which 121 were symptomatic and 245 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Thursday. That compared with 338 new cases a day earlier, 98 symptomatic and 240 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. There were no new deaths, same as a day […]
BBC News:- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Russia to stop forced deportations and “filtration” operations involving Ukrainians. Russia had detained and forcibly moved to Russia some 900,000 to 1.6 million people, many of them children, he said. Mr Blinken cited reports of children being separated from parents or abducted from orphanages […]
NDTV News:- Two Indian nationals carrying 45 pistols were arrested by customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Wednesday. An investigation is underway to determine if the guns are real or not. The counter-terrorism unit National Security Guard (NSG) that is investigating the case report that the guns look ‘completely […]
ABC News:- A group of 181 Afghans has arrived in the Netherlands on a chartered flight from Pakistan, the Dutch government said Wednesday, the latest group to fly to safety in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last year. Most of the new arrivals who landed Tuesday night at an airport in Eindhoven […]
Reuters:- Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that Russian forces shot down four Ukrainian military jets in Ukraine. Russian forces destroyed an Su-25 and Su-24 – both Soviet-era jets used by the Ukrainian air force – over the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine along with another Su-25 and a Mig-29, another Soviet-designed fighter aircraft, in […]
ABC News:- The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria on Friday marked the completion of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, whose vital supply of Russian gas was cut off in April amid the fallout over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed the importance of the […]
BBC News:- Claim and counter-claim have followed a Ukrainian rocket attack on a city in the occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine, apparently involving US-supplied missiles. Ukraine’s military said it had destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in the city of Nova Kakhovka, killing dozens of soldiers. However, Russian occupation officials say homes and warehouses storing […]
BBC News:- Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country on a military jet, amid mass protests over its economic crisis. The country’s air force confirmed the 73-year-old flew to the Maldives with his wife and two security officials. They arrived in the capital, Male, at around 03:00 local time (22:00 GMT), BBC Sinhala […]
BBC News:- Last month, Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan celebrated 30 years in Hindi cinema. Shrayana Bhattacharya, who has written a book on the Bollywood actor’s enduring popularity, explains why he is still among the world’s biggest film icons. It is probably facile to offer intellectual reasons to explain Khan’s longevity in the film industry. […]
NDTV News:- Former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday emerged as one of the early candidates to hit the threshold of 20 supporting Conservative Party members of Parliament for his nomination to compete for the post of leader and the next British prime minister, to be announced on September 5. The 42-year-old British-Indian MP for […]
