Jerusalem: Israel’s defence minister Benny Gantz will visit India next week during which he will sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) to mark 30 years of bilateral diplomatic and defence ties, his office said on Thursday. India and Israel elevated their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership during the historic visit of Prime Minister Narendra […]
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday struck a deal with a defiant former prime minister Imran Khan to peacefully hold his party’s “Azadi March” in Islamabad at the mediation of the powerful army, amid clashes between police and his supporters after authorities blocked off major roads to the capital using dozens of shipping containers and […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior officials bear responsibility for a culture of rule-breaking that resulted in several parties that breached the U.K.’s COVID-19 lockdown rules, a report into the events said Wednesday. Revelations that Johnson and his staff repeatedly flouted the rules they imposed on others have elicited outrage in Britain […]
DAVOS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said his country will not give up its land to end Russia’s war. Speaking by video link at a “Ukrainian breakfast” during the World Economic Forum’s gathering in Davos, Zelenskyy said he didn’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin fully understood what was going on in Ukraine. Responding to […]
KYIV: Ukraine’s president said Wednesday that Russia must pull back to its pre-war positions as a first step before diplomatic talks, a negotiating line that Moscow is unlikely to agree to anytime soon as it focuses its fire on key regions in the east three months into the war. Speaking by video link at this […]
Davos: The war in Ukraine has exacerbated food insecurity worldwide due to precarious supply chains, increased fertiliser prices and blocked grain exports, leaders said at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here on Tuesday and called for resolving the global food crisis alongside the climate crisis. Instability in Ukraine is threatening to intensify an already […]
LONDON: The World Health Organization does not believe the outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its spread, a senior official said on Monday. In an interview with Reuters, Richard Pebody, who leads the high-threat pathogen team at WHO Europe, also […]
CAMBRIDGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the “single biggest learning experience” of his life, asserting that he cannot get away from the fact that the event also made him learn things that he would have never learnt otherwise. In conversation with […]
TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held fruitful discussions with Australia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and discussed ways to add even greater momentum across key sectors of their robust bilateral strategic ties. Modi and Albanese met on the sidelines of the Quad Summit here, a day after the center-left Labor Party leader was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government on Tuesday banned ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party from holding a massive rally on May 25 to prevent them from “propagating their misleading agenda”, after more than 100 supporters were arrested in overnight raids across the country. On Saturday, Khan had asked his supporters to march peacefully to Islamabad on […]