Dhaka: India on Thursday voiced its strong commitment to the strengthening of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to promote peace, security and prosperity in the Indian Ocean Region and in the wider Indo-Pacific. Minister of State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said this while participating in the 22nd Council of Ministers’ (COM) […]
BRUSSELS: European Union justice commissioner Didier Reynders will travel to Ireland on Thursday to meet executives from Twitter and Facebook’s owner Meta and remind them of their responsibilities under EU rules. Sources in Reynders’s office told AFP he would be in Dublin on Thursday and Friday and will meet both big tech and Irish officials, […]
KYIV: Russia caused a “real danger of a nuclear and radioactive catastrophe” by launching attacks in which all Ukraine’s nuclear reactors were disconnected from the power grid for the first time in 40 years, Ukraine’s nuclear energy chief said. Petro Kotin, head of nuclear power company Energoatom, said in a statement on Thursday the vast […]
Cianjur: On the fourth day of an increasingly urgent search, Indonesian rescuers narrowed their work on Thursday to a landslide where dozens are believed trapped after an earthquake that killed at least 271 people, more than a third of them children. Many of the more than 1,000 rescue personnel are using backhoe loaders, sniffer dogs […]
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is committed to getting Eric Garcetti as the US envoy to New Delhi, the White House has said, hoping that the Senate will confirm his nomination soon. Garcetti, 51, has been Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013. He is a close aide of President Joe Biden. “India is a very important […]
Ankara (Turkey): A magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit a town in northwestern Turkey early Wednesday, causing damage to some buildings and widespread panic. At least 68 people were injured, mostly while trying to flee homes. The earthquake was centred in the town of Golkaya, in Duzce province, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Istanbul, the Disaster […]
Chesapeake (US): A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the country’s second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead. The store in Chesapeake is now safe and will likely be closed for several days during the investigation, Officer […]
Jerusalem: One person was killed and 21 others injured in two separate explosions at bus stops at the entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday, in what seemed like a coordinated terror attack, Israeli police and rescue officials said. The first explosion occurred close to the main entrance of Jerusalem in Givat Shaul, shortly after 7 AM […]
CIANJUR (INDONESIA): The death toll from an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java jumped to 268 on Tuesday, as rescuers searched for survivors in the rubble and relatives started to bury their loved ones. As body bags emerged from crumpled buildings in Indonesia’s most populous province, West Java, rescue efforts turned to any survivors […]
ASTANA: Russia on Tuesday said it hoped Turkey would exercise “restraint” and refrain from “any excessive use of force” in Syria, where Ankara has carried out air strikes and is threatening to launch a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters. “We hope to convince our Turkish colleagues to refrain from resorting to excessive use of force […]