Thursday, November 21, 2024
PORT LOUIS — Mauritians are going to the polls Sunday to elect the 70 members of the National Assembly, the country’s unicameral parliament. According to the country’s electoral commission, a total of 1,002,857 voters registered on the ...
10 Nov 2024
ISLAMABAD — Six “terrorists” were killed and six others injured during an intelligence-based operation in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Sunday. The security forces conducted the operatio...
10 Nov 2024
SEOUL — South Korean Police said on Sunday that they have identified over 4,700 minors involved in online gambling activities over the past year. The National Police Agency said that 4,715 individuals under the age of 19 were discovered during a sp...
10 Nov 2024
PORT SUDAN — The Sudanese government denied US accusations of blocking humanitarian aid delivery to those affected by the country’s armed conflict. In a statement, Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), a governmental body that mana...
10 Nov 2024
TOKYO — Japan’s influenza cases have entered a nationwide outbreak phase, with cases continuing to increase across the country, government data showed. For the week ending November 3, roughly 5,000 medical institutions reported a total of 5,1...
09 Nov 2024
Death toll rises to 25 QUETTA — At least 24 people have been killed in Pakistan while over 50 others are injured at the Quetta Railway Station after a suspected suicide bomber exploded when passengers were gathering for the departure of a train to ...
09 Nov 2024
GABORONE — Multitudes of people thronged the National Stadium in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city, to witness the inauguration of Duma Boko as the southern African country’s sixth President. Boko promised that his government would cr...
09 Nov 2024
BRUSSELS, NOV 8 (IANS) — With Donald Trump clinching a historic victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, world leaders, including those across Europe, extended their formal congratulations. However, beneath these diplomatic gestures, E...
09 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed his campaign manager Susie Wiles as his Chief of Staff, the first woman to hold the influential cabinet position heading the White House executive office. Calling her the “winner campai...
08 Nov 2024
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again showered praise on India’s rapid rise under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, insisting it is high time that Russia’s “natural partner and ally for decades” is included am...
08 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — While doubling down on his campaign stance of deporting illegal migrants, US President-elect Donald Trump says he wants immigrants to come in legally. “We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to &#...
08 Nov 2024
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US election, saying that he was ready to speak with the “courageous” incoming US President. In his first public comment on the outcome of the US pol...
08 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — President Joe Biden has congratulated his predecessor Donald Trump on his election and offered to work for a “smooth transition”. “President Biden expressed his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition and emphasised the im...
07 Nov 2024
CANBERRA — Australian children younger than 16 will be banned from using social media under a proposal put forward by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland on Thursday pledged to legislate a minimum ...
07 Nov 2024
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes have launched eight violent airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs after days of cautious calm, media reported. The Israeli airstrikes, targeting areas including the municipalities of Haret Hreik and Burj Barajneh,...
07 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — US Vice-President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday that she had spoken to President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him and also assure him “we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power”. Harris, who lost comprehensivel...
07 Nov 2024
AMARAVATI — Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance, is set to become the first Indian-origin ‘Second Lady’ of the United States. The 38-year-old Indian-American lawyer has her roots in Andhra Pradesh ...
06 Nov 2024
MOSCOW — Russia on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US Presidential election but at the same time made it clear that Moscow will interact with the new US administration while firmly upholding its national interests. “...
06 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday is cruising towards winning the race for the White House in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history by almost defeating his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in an election...
06 Nov 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday evening that he was removing Defence Minister Yoav Gallant from his position and replacing him with Israel Katz, citing a “crisis of trust” that “gradually deep...
06 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — After voting in the presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump has said that this was the best campaign he has run and indicated that it may be his last. “I ran a great campaign. I think it was maybe the best of the t...
06 Nov 2024
NAIROBI — At least 65 million people are food insecure in the Horn of Africa, according to a joint report released Tuesday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African ...
05 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans headed towards polling stations on Tuesday to elect the 47th President of the United States, capping one of the most bitter presidential campaigns in the country’s history. On Monday night, both the candidat...
05 Nov 2024
SEOUL — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, in the latest sabre-rattling just hours ahead of the US presidential election. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said i...
05 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — As the nation gets ready to head to the polls, the aggregation of polls that had given Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump a slight lead, but well within the margin of error, turned to give Democratic nominee Kamala Harris an ...
05 Nov 2024
