Washington, Dec 13 US President Joe Biden has scheduled a meeting Wednesday with families of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 as Israel’s bombardment in Gaza escalates and the international community is turning against over its sustained military campaign. Biden, who on Tuesday maintained that Israel is fast losing the international community’s support due […]
London, Dec 11 The UK’s Indian-origin British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, 43, was looking at an uncertain future on Monday afternoon, following a right-wing faction of his Conservative party being informed that a parliamentary Bill on which he has virtually staked his future was a “partial and incomplete solution” to the problem of sending back […]
Moscow, Dec 10 Expressing readiness to render any assistance to alleviate suffering of Gaza’s people, Russia on Sunday said that an international monitoring mission should go to the beleaguered enclave to monitor the humanitarian situation. It also stressed that steps need to be taken for de-escalation and protecting civilians. “(President) Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the principle […]
San Francisco, Dec 7 Japanese car maker Nissan has said that it is investigating a cyberattack or a potential data breach that targeted its systems in Australia and New Zealand, which may have let hackers access personal information. The details of the incident have not been released, but the company warned consumers of its Nissan […]
London, Dec 7 Rishi Sunak, 42, the Indian-origin British Prime Minister, is fighting with his back to the wall to save his premiership as well as his political career. Sunak, who has staked his future on passing an immigration bill in the British Parliament, which, he thinks, will ensure asylum seekers to the United Kingdom […]
New York, Nov 30 US federal prosecutors have charged an Indian national in an alleged ‘murder-for-hire’ plot to try to assassinate a Sikh political activist in New York, a media report said. Authorities said Nikhil Gupta (52) worked with an unnamed Indian official to set up a meeting with an undercover officer he believed to […]
Washington, Nov 29 US economic growth was even stronger in the third quarter than previously estimated, underscoring the economy’s remarkabale resilience in the face of elevated inflation and high borrowing costs earlier this year, a media report said. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, rose at an annualised rate of 5.2 per […]
Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) US President Joe Biden is planning to skip the United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (COP) that will be held in Dubai from November 30-December 12, where heads of state and top diplomats from around 200 nations will meet to chalk out future plans for climate control […]
New Delhi, November 23 Calling the foiled attempt on his life ‘transnational terrorism’ and threat to US sovereignty, Khalistan leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said on Thursday that he will let the American government respond to it. New York-based Pannun’s remarks came a day after Financial Times reported that authorities in the US thwarted a conspiracy […]
New Delhi, Nov 21 Israel is not looking to occupy Gaza after its ongoing war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas ends, an Israeli government official said on Tuesday. “We don’t want to occupy Gaza. We don’t want to rule over Gaza,” Mark Regev, a senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an […]