NEW DELHI (Reuters) – According to India’s defence ministry, a 17-year-old Indian kid was “reportedly detained” by the Chinese military after going missing near the nations’ shared border. According to a post on the defence ministry’s Twitter account, the Indian army has contacted its Chinese counterpart in order to identifyContinue Reading
MOSCOW (AFP) – During a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi praised bilateral ties as pressure increases for a vote on the Iran nuclear agreement. Raisi stated that he had handed draught agreements on strategic cooperation to Moscow, which would cementContinue Reading
(AFP) – On Wednesday, Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund urged Muslim nations to be the first to recognise the government that seized power in Afghanistan in August. No country has yet recognised the Taliban administration, and the world is waiting to see how the Taliban will govern this time.Continue Reading
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – According to indigenous organisations and government, a 14-year-old environmental activist was shot and killed in Colombia, the world’s worst country for environmentalists. Breiner David Cucuname was one of two persons slain by an indigenous guard while participating in a rural security patrol in the southern CaucaContinue Reading
ABU DHABI (AFP) – According to official media, a suspected drone strike blew up fuel tanks at a major oil storage facility in Abu Dhabi, killing three persons and injuring six more. According to official news agency WAM, the blasts “resulted in the death of a Pakistani person and twoContinue Reading
Concerns about the security of open-source software will be discussed during the meeting. On Thursday, the White House will host a meeting with executives from key technology companies, including Alphabet-owned Google, Apple Inc, and Amazon.com Inc, to address software security after the United States was rocked by multiple significant cyberattacksContinue Reading
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Russia increased the stakes in its conflict with the West over Ukraine on Thursday, with a top diplomat refusing to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the US escalate. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who headed the Russian teamContinue Reading
BRUXELLES (AFP) – On Wednesday, NATO and Russia confronted their stark divide over European security, with the allies challenging President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and join talks to reduce the threat of open conflict. Meeting with senior Kremlin envoys at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Western ambassadors saidContinue Reading
(AFP) BEIJING – According to state media, five million residents of a central Chinese city began home confinement on Tuesday as part of a new lockdown to combat the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus. As it prepares to host the Winter Olympics next month, BeijingContinue Reading
YANGON (AFP) – A Myanmar junta court convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges on Monday, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest of several cases against the ousted civilian leader. The Nobel laureate has been imprisoned since February 1, when her government was deposedContinue Reading
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