Deutsche Welle : More than a year after deadly ethnic violence broke out between the majority Meitei community and the...
Al Jazeera : Hundreds of mourners in Turkey have gathered for funeral prayers ahead of the burial of Turkish-American activist...
AFP : The Maldives says its financial troubles are “temporary” and the luxury tourist destination has no plans to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout after warnings of a possible sovereign default.Foreign minister Moosa Zameer said the Indian Ocean archipelago, best known for its upscale resorts and celebrity visitors, was pressing ahead with tax hikes to meet its debt servicing obligations.“We have bilateral partners who are very sensitive to our needs and our situation,” Zameer told reporters in Colombo on...
BBC : UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has held “productive” talks with US President Joe Biden about Ukraine –...
AFP : Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hit back at Elon Musk on Saturday after the tech mogul called his...
CNN : Germany has struck a controlled migration deal with Kenya, which will see Berlin open its doors to skilled...
Aljazeera : President Vladimir Putin has warned that if Western nations allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike inside...
Aljazeera : There was a faint glimmer of hope in the past week for Ukraine, that after months of pleading with Washington, it may be starting to move the strategic needle in favour of allowing deep strikes inside Russia using weapons made in the United States.Until now, the US has allowed Ukraine to use its weapons for counter-battery fire at short range across the border.On the same day, his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, told reporters in London that he...
AFP, Charlotte : Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in another debate with Kamala Harris, as the...
International Desk : Retiring before the statutory age will not be allowed, as China faces an ageing and shrinking populationChina will “gradually raise” its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget. The top legislative body on Friday approved proposals to raise the statutory retirement age from 50 to 55 for women in blue-collar jobs, and from 55 to 58 for females in white-collar jobs.China’s current retirement...
AFP, Geneva : The WHO said Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine — a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa. The announcement came on the heels of the arrival of the first MVA-BN vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the epidemic.“This first prequalification of a vaccine against mpox is an important step in our fight against the disease, both in the...
AFP, Pyinmana : Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around remote capital...