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 […]
DAVOS: Asserting that freedom is more important than free trade, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the Ukraine war has taught the world that having economic dependencies on authoritarian regimes have huge vulnerabilities and listed China as an example of authoritarian government. Addressing the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 here, he also […]
Lahore: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday alleged that Imran Khan wants to unleash a “civil war” in the country, a day after the ousted premier asked his supporters to march peacefully to Islamabad on May 25 to press for the dissolution of the National Assembly and fresh elections. Khan, 69, the cricketer-turned politician, […]
BEIJING: The Chinese government on Monday said it was ready to defend its national interests over Taiwan, in a rebuke to US President Joe Biden’s vow to protect the island from any invasion by China. China’s Communist Party has never controlled self-ruled Taiwan but it views the island as part of its territory and has […]
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, […]