United Nations, Sep 9 — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he visits India this week for the BRICS summit, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. The spokesperson said at his briefing on Tuesday (local time) that although the visit…
London, Sep 9 — More than 1,000 flights were cancelled across Britain after a technical failure in the country’s air traffic control services disrupted flight operations, causing widespread delays at major airports. National Air Traffic Services (NATS), which manages air traffic control across the…
Tehran, Sep 9 — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced early Wednesday that its aerospace forces have attacked a US air base in Jordan in retaliation for US "aggressive" attacks against Iranian oil tankers. The IRGC said in a statement that it struck a hangar for the…
United Nations, Sep 9 — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, encouraged by recent diplomatic efforts, hopes to see a resumption of Ukraine-Russia talks, his spokesperson said. The secretary-general is encouraged by recent diplomatic efforts, including the visits of senior US envoys to Moscow and…
Washington, Sep 9 — Indian-American Congressman Suhas Subramanyam has introduced a four-bill national plan aimed at regulating the rapid expansion of data centres and preventing their infrastructure costs from being passed on to American households. The legislative package would require data…
Washington, Sep 9 — The United States military has destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) twice targeted an American warship with ballistic missiles, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.The strikes were carried out Tuesday (Local time) in…
Bratislava, Sep 9 — European Union (EU) leaders should have played a more active role in seeking a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Juraj Blanar said in an interview with TASR TV. Blanar said the United States is now playing a…
Washington, Sep 9 — US President Donald Trump has ordered bans on a broad range of Canadian alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles as his administration escalated its trade confrontation with Canada. The import bans will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 29,…
Paris, Sep 9 — British, French, and Canadian leaders issued a joint statement affirming their "commitment to protect the two-state solution" in the face of the "systematic expansion" of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. "A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical for…
Washington, Sep 9 — The US Department of the Treasury put 27 Iranian airlines on its Specially Designated Nationals List, thus targeting all remaining Iranian airlines in a bid to step up pressure on Iran. The department said in a press release on Tuesday (local time) that "Iran's commercial…
Kinshasa, Sep 9 — The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is "becoming increasingly heterogeneous," with divergent transmission trends across affected provinces and health zones, according to the latest WHO external situation report. "The trends reinforce an increasingly…
Tehran, Sep 9 — The navy of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that its forces captured one of the US Army's "most modern, smart" unmanned submarines at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement published on the IRGC's official news outlet, Sepah News, on Tuesday…
Washington, Sep 9 — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China was the sole G20 member that blocked a consensus statement addressing excess industrial capacity and restrictions on the trade of rare earths. Bessent said the disagreement emerged during the recently concluded G20 finance track…
Washington, Sep 9 — White House border czar Thomas Douglas Homan said the Trump administration would intensify immigration arrests and deportations, including in New York, as he defended the removal of people who have no criminal history but are living in the United States illegally. Homan said…
United Nations, Sep 9 — UN General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman has said that he will push for a "meaningful" reform of the Security Council "very, very seriously". "We have a situation where trust is in deficit, and the organisation must undertake deeper reform in order to make it fit for…
Washington, Sep 9 — The US Department of Labour has suspended permanent labour certification filings by technology services giant Cognizant as federal authorities investigate alleged fraud and possible harm to American workers. It impacts the company’s filings under the Permanent Labour…
Washington, Sep 8 — Eighteen Americans reported missing after catastrophic floods in Nepal have reached safety, while about 70 remain unaccounted for in the Nepal-China border region, the US State Department said on Tuesday. The updated figures were provided as of 7 a.m. Eastern Time on September…
Rome, Sep 8 — The recent killing of Mirza Safdar Mahmood, a 65-year-old Ahmadi Muslim and local official of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan’s Punjab province, has renewed concerns over the growing vulnerability of Ahmadis and the persistent threat of religiously motivated violence…
Washington, Sep 8 — US President Donald Trump said Iran would never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon, asserting that Tehran had been “punished greatly” and praising the American military for enforcing what he described as a highly effective blockade. Trump made the remarks on Tuesday at the…
Quetta, Sep 8 — As violence against Baloch civilians escalates across Pakistan, leading human rights organisations on Tuesday brought to light the extrajudicial killing of two civilians, including a woman, by Pakistani forces, The Baloch Voice for Justice (BVJ) revealed that the mutilated body of…
Washington, Sep 8 — A campaign by political leaders and advocacy groups in the United States, Canada and Britain to isolate the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) could harm American interests and undermine efforts to strengthen US-India relations, a US foreign policy scholar has said.Bill Drexel, a…