Beijing: China on Sunday launched a broadside against the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States ahead of the summit of Quad leaders in Japan, saying that it is “bound to fail” as it is vigorously promoted by Washington to “contain” Beijing. The “Indo-Pacific strategy” is causing more and more vigilance and concern in the international […]
HELSINKI: Russia halted gas exports to neighboring Finland on Saturday, a highly symbolic move that came just days after the Nordic country announced it wanted to join NATO and marked a likely end to Finland’s nearly 50 years of importing natural gas from Russia. The measure taken by the Russian energy giant Gazprom was in […]
LONDON: Democracy in India is a global public good and a central anchor for the planet and if that cracks, it is going to cause a problem for the planet, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has warned as he attacked the NDA government, asserting that there are two different designs of governance at play in India, […]
COLOMBO: India on Saturday provided another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka under the credit line facility to the island nation which is grappling with its worst economic crisis. Last month, India extended an additional USD 500 million credit line to help Sri Lanka import fuel as the country has been struggling to […]
Lahore: A Pakistani court here on Saturday extended pre-arrest bail of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz till May 28, while it issued arrest warrant for his other son Shehbaz Suleman in the Rs 14 billion money laundering case. Shehbaz appeared before the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) special […]
RSV is a major paediatric respiratory virus, that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, and hospitalises about three million children under age 5 each year worldwide. London: A common virus that usually causes cold-like symptoms was responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in children under the age of five across the globe in 2019, according to […]
PYEONGTAEK: US President Joe Biden is opening his trip to Asia with a focus on the computer chip shortage that has bedeviled the world economy, touring a Samsung computer chip plant that will serve as model for a USD 17 billion semiconductor factory that the Korean electronics company plans to open in Texas. The visit […]
London: The UK government on Friday said it was stocking up on smallpox vaccines to help guard against a rise in cases of monkeypox, a viral infection similar to smallpox. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it has detected 11 additional cases of monkeypox in England, which takes the total number of confirmed cases […]
Beijing: China on Thursday sharply criticised US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya’s meeting with the Dalai Lama and her visit to Dharamshala, saying it violated Washington’s commitment that Tibet is part of China and it does not support Tibetan separatists. Zeya met the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, on Thursday and discussed […]
Washington: President Joe Biden departs on a six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aiming to build rapport with the two nations’ leaders while also sending an unmistakable message to China: Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific. Biden departs Thursday and is set to meet […]