Saturday, April 20, 2024
SEOUL — The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) retained a majority in the National Assembly in Wednesday’s general elections in another major setback for the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and President Yoon Suk Yeol. With almost all vote...
11 Apr 2024
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to mobilise all means to deal a “death-blow” to the country’s enemy without hesitation should it opt for military confrontation with North Korea, state media said on Thursday. Kim ...
11 Apr 2024
COLOMBO — Indian High Commissioner in Colombo Santosh Jha on Wednesday said that India is prepared to share the advanced defence equipment with Sri Lanka. “We are not only producing our national requirements but we are also willing to make these ...
10 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — India remains a “strong” recipient of foreign investments as multinationals recognise it as an alternative manufacturing base for supply chains, according to the United Nations. “India is benefiting by growing int...
10 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS : The negotiations for reforming the UN Security Council have not “begun in earnest” and the process is stuck in “informal discussions,” according to General Assembly President Dennis Francis. “Under the a...
10 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has said that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has clandestinely and deceptively interfered in the two Canadian elections, media reports said. “We know that the Peoples’ Re...
09 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — A 25-year-old Indian student who had been missing since last month was found dead in the US city of Cleveland, the second death within a week in the country as the community grapples with a string of such tragedies. Mohammad Abdul Arfath...
09 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — India termed the UN Security Council resolution that demanded immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan a “positive step,” asserting that the humanitarian crisis resulting from the ongoing Israel-Hamas confli...
09 Apr 2024
CAIRO — Egypt, Jordan, and France have urged an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli siege and bombardment over the past six months. In a joint article on Monday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Jordanian Kin...
09 Apr 2024
VIENNA — International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, has said that the drone attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine on Sunday is a “serious incident that endangered nuclear safety ...
08 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea launched its second indigenous spy satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida on Monday (Seoul time), according to the country’s defence ministry. The Falcon 9 lifted off at ...
08 Apr 2024
BRATISLAVA — Slovakia’s incumbent Speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini won the country’s second round of the presidential election held on Saturday, according to preliminary results published by Slovakia’s Statistical ...
07 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — At least 10 terrorists were killed in Pakistan by the security forces in two separate operations, the media reported on Saturday, citing officials. According to the media wing of the Pakistani military, security forces carried out intel...
06 Apr 2024
KYIV — At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in Russian strikes on Ukraine in the past 24 hours, local authorities said Saturday. Four people were killed and 23 injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia in missile strikes, ...
06 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia has warned Ukraine and its Western allies against attempts to attack or destabilize the situation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). “We urge the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and its management to acti...
06 Apr 2024
UNITED NATION — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a paradigm shift in Israel’s military strategy in Gaza and in aid delivery to save lives. Following this week’s appalling killing of seven humanitarian workers from Wo...
06 Apr 2024
SEOUL — Turnout for the parliamentary elections in South Korea topped 10 million during the second and final day of early voting on Saturday. According to the National Election Commission (NEC), 10,365,722 out of 44,280,011 eligible voters had cast...
06 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit eastern parts of the United States on Friday morning with the epicentre in Lebanon, New Jersey, 50 miles (80 km) from New York. There were no reports of casualties or damage to property. Tremors were felt...
05 Apr 2024
SEOUL — Early voting began Friday ahead of next week’s parliamentary elections in South Korea, with turnout reaching a record high amid high interest in the vote seen as a midterm referendum on the administration of President Yoon Suk Yeol. V...
05 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Governor of Russia’s Murmansk region Andrei Chibis, who was stabbed in the stomach after a meeting in the town of Apatity on Thursday, is in a “serious condition”. Chibis, 45, is in a serious condition and is being operat...
05 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza would be determined by the latter announcing and implementing a “series of specific, con...
05 Apr 2024
TEHRAN — Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehqan has said that the country would file a lawsuit against Israel for its “deadly attack” on the Iranian consulate in Syria. Dehqan made the remarks on Wednesday in an a...
04 Apr 2024
HARARE — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared a state of disaster due to an El Nino-induced drought threatening food security in the country. “The current agricultural season of 2023/2024 has not performed according t...
03 Apr 2024
DHAKA — Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh. Released as part of ...
03 Apr 2024
TAIPEI — At least nine people were killed and 800 others injured after a 7.3-magnitude quake jolted Taiwan on Wednesday morning, according to the local emergency operation centre. Data from the centre showed that about 821 people were injured follo...
03 Apr 2024
