‘Ukraine land concessions a Putin’s trap’
BBC : The top diplomat of the European Union (EU) has warned against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia as part of a...
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Thaksin cleared of royal insult
AFP : Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his embattled political dynasty which has...
25 injured in Pakistan fireworks blast
AP : An explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Thursday injured at least 25 people, some of...
Asia’s richest man drives India’s Russian oil imports
Aljazeera : United States President Donald Trump’s additional 25 percent tariff on India for its imports from Russia, saying it is helping fuel Russia’s war...
Ex-Sri Lanka president Ranil arrested
BBC : Sri Lanka’s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, police have said. The charge relates...
InShort: Meta signs $10B cloud deal with Google
Reuters : Google has struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, the search giant’s second big agreement recently...
InShort: Rope breaks on China bridge site 7 dead, 9 missing
AFP : Seven people were killed and 9 others were missing after a rope broke at a bridge under construction in northwest China on Friday....
InShort: US slams door on foreign truck drivers
AFP : President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday abruptly stopped issuing US visas for truck drivers after a fatal crash drew national attention, its latest...
InShort: SpaceX launches secret US military craft
AFP : A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space on Thursday night carrying the US military’s secretive X-37B drone. The rocket successfully launched at...
Iran executes suspect at murder scene
AFP : Iran publicly hanged a convicted murderer at the scene of his alleged crime on Thursday, the judiciary said, just two days after another...
Shinawatra dynasty faces major court tests
Reuters : Thailand’s billionaire Shinawatra family is bracing for a series of high-stakes court decisions starting Friday that could test its political resilience, with the...