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Ready to provide anything India wants to buy: Russia
Russia today said it has developed a system to trade in national currencies with countries like India and would intensify efforts to move away from the dollar-based payment system as visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in New Delhi.
1 April 2022, 12:31 PM
N Korea faked new ICBM launch: South
North Korea faked the launch of what analysts have dubbed its “monster missile” last week, Seoul’s military said yesterday.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Taliban girls’ education ban won’t last
The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered”.
27 March 2022, 18:00 PM
US, Russia ties ‘stand on their own merit’
India has friendly relations with both the United States and Russia that stand on their own merit, the foreign ministry told parliament yesterday, in reply to a query whether the Ukraine war had affected ties.
24 March 2022, 18:00 PM
N Korea tests largest ICBM
North Korea conducted what is thought to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test ever yesterday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, marking a dramatic end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range testing.
24 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Rescuers find a black box
A black box from the crashed China Eastern airliner was recovered yesterday as investigators try to piece together what made a jet carrying 132
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM
‘What have we done wrong?’
The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut yesterday just hours after they reopened, sparking heartbreak and confusion over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group.
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM
‘A real opportunity’
Israel is keen on bringing in Ukrainian Jewish refugees for the purpose of maintaining Jewish demographic “supremacy” over the Palestinian population, academics and analysts say.
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Julian Assange to marry fiance Stella Moris in London prison
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancee Stella Moris get married on Wednesday, at the high-security London prison where he is being held during his extradition case.
23 March 2022, 11:07 AM
UN chief calls Russia-Ukraine war ‘unwinnable’
UN chief Antonio Guterres said yesterday that it was time for Russia to end their “absurd war” in Ukraine, declaring the conflict “unwinnable.”
22 March 2022, 18:00 PM
World ‘sleepwalking’
UN chief Antonio Guterres said yesterday the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe”, with major economies allowing carbon pollution to increase when drastic cuts are needed.
21 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say
Russia is using the UN Security Council to spread disinformation and propaganda about its invasion of Ukraine, six Western members states said Friday.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Finland world’s happiest nation
Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
US 'troubled' by Syria's Assad visit to ally UAE
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's visit to the United Arab Emirates left the US "profoundly disappointed", it said Saturday, urging allies to avoid normalising ties with a regime accused of "horrific atrocities".
19 March 2022, 15:38 PM
Belarus slammed at UN for abuses, invasion role
Diplomats at the United Nations yesterday voiced outrage over Belarus’s widespread human rights violations at home, and also for “enabling” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
17 March 2022, 18:00 PM
British Iranian Nazanin Zaghari reaches UK from Iran
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and dual national Anoosheh Ashoori arrived in Britain from Iran on Thursday, ending an ordeal during which they became a bargaining chip in Iran's talks with the West over its nuclear programme.
17 March 2022, 06:16 AM
4.7m more plunge into extreme poverty
The pandemic added 4.7 million more people to Southeast Asia’s most extreme poor in 2021, reversing gains made in fighting poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday, while urging governments to take steps to boost economic growth.
16 March 2022, 18:00 PM
March 15 Int'l Day to Combat Islamophobia: UN adopts OIC resolution
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday adopted by consensus a resolution introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that proclaims March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia.
15 March 2022, 20:06 PM
UN cites ‘clear indications’
The United Nations yesterday denounced mass killings in Myanmar and accused the military of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity since last year’s coup d’etat.
15 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Australia, Netherlands begin joint legal action against Russia of downing of Flight MH17
Australia and the Netherlands said on Monday they had begun joint legal action against Russia at the United Nations' aviation agency over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 eight years ago.
14 March 2022, 13:10 PM