Kuwait vows to promptly investigate fire incident
Kuwait Thursday said authorities have identified the bodies of 45 Indians and three Filipino nationals killed in the tragic fire incident in a building housing foreign workers as the Gulf Kingdom vowed to promptly investigate the incident and assured full support in repatriating the mortal remains of the victims. At least...
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Fistfight erupts in Italian Parliament
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Sunak to push for ‘decisive’ support for Ukraine
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G7 summit opens with deal to use Russian assets for Ukraine
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‘Pak’s donkey population rose to 5.9 million in FY 2023-24’
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EU threatens to hike tariffs on Chinese electric car imports
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Baltimore port reopens
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Aus anticipates, China to lift final obstacle for exports
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Fresh off France trip, Biden heads back to Europe for G7 summit
President Joe Biden heads to Italy on Wednesday for a summit of the world’s leading democracies with an urgency to get big things done, including turning frozen Russian assets into billions of dollars to help Ukraine as it fights off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war machine. This year’s Group of Seven...
Republicans echo Trump in response to Hunter Biden conviction
Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges on Tuesday with some version of, “That’s it?” Republicans loyal to Donald Trump largely echoed the former president’s claim that the Justice Department has treated President Joe Biden’s son with kid gloves while zealously prosecuting Trump. Using the attention given...
Macron urges politicians to defeat far right
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Wednesday moderate politicians from the left and the right to regroup to defeat the far right in the upcoming national legislative elections he had called for after his party’s crushing defeat in the European parliamentary vote. A somber-looking Macron addressed French voters for the first...
‘Violence against children in Gaza conflict reached extreme levels in 2023’
(): Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine, according to a new UN report. The annual report on Children in Armed Conflict, obtained...
Hezbollah fires scores of rockets at Israel
Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a cease-fire in Gaza hung in the balance. The retaliatory attack came as US Secretary of State Antony...
Apple poised for late start in AI race with big ambitions
Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference on Monday is expected to herald the company’s move into generative artificial intelligence, marking its late arrival to a technological frontier that’s expected to be as revolutionary as the invention of the iPhone. The widely anticipated display of AI to be embedded in the iPhone...
Japan economy shrinking, although slightly less than previously thought
The Japanese economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year, slightly better than the initial estimate at a 2.0 per cent contraction, according to revised government data on Monday. The revision was due to private sector investments, at minus 0.4 per cent,...
