The Pakistan government has started a major nationwide crackdown on Afghan nationals in the country after the deadline passed for them to return voluntarily. The authorities have arrested hundreds...
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Hungary’s government has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban received his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an ICC arrest...
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UN Human Rights chief expresses alarm over extrajudicial killings of civilians in Sudan.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has expressed deep concern about reports of widespread extrajudicial killings of civilians in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, following its recapture...
South Korea’s Constitutional Court today upheld the impeachment of the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol. In a nationally televised judgement, at least six out of eight judges ruled in...
Australia, India, Japan and the US have extended sympathies and condolences to the peoples of Myanmar and Thailand following the recent earthquake. In a Joint Statement by QUAD partners...
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French President urges companies to halt US investments amid Trump’s ‘unfounded’ EU tariffs.
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged companies to halt investments in the US until US President Donald Trump clarifies his harsh and unjustified new tariffs on Europe and other...
In Japan, a strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale struck Kyushu region today at 7:34 PM (IST). According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake...
In Myanmar, state-run television reported that the death toll from last week’s devastating earthquake has crossed 2,886, with a further 4,639 injured and 373 missing. Local media reported that...
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Maharashtra Govt partners with Microsoft to stablish 3 AI centres of excellence.
The Maharashtra government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Microsoft Corporation for a strategic partnership to establish three cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) centres of excellence in...
President of the Lanka India Business Association (LIBA), Santosh Menon, has highlighted the likely transformative impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka. Speaking to Akashvani...