A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit western China near the border with Nepal on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake struck shortly after 9 a.m. at a depth of 6.2 miles in Dingri County in the Tibet region of China, Chinese state media reported. The state-run news agency Xinhua said there had been…
A top U.S. envoy who helped broker the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah issued reassurance on Monday that Israel would withdraw fully from southern Lebanon, as called for in the fragile 60-day truce deal that paused the bloodiest war between the two sides in decades. Speaking to reporters in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, the envoy,…
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has been conducting “operational raids” in recent weeks on Mount Hermon in Syria, continuing a military campaign on Syrian soil that is drawing increasing international condemnation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based Syrian war monitor, on Sunday also reported airstrikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus,…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, when asked what should the issues in focus be for the country compared to 10 years back, said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government believed “resources should be distributed more fairly”, unlike the BJP which he claimed has been “aggressive on the growth”.During his interaction with IIT Madras students,…
Congress Vs BJP: कांग्रेस के सांसद राहुल गांधी ने शनिवार (4 जनवरी) को IIT मद्रास के छात्रों से संवाद करते हुए कांग्रेस और भाजपा के दृष्टिकोण में अंतर को स्पष्ट किया. इस दौरान उन्होंने कहा कि कांग्रेस का मानना है कि संसाधनों का वितरण ज्यादा न्यायसंगत तरीके से किया जाना चाहिए और विकास ज्यादा व्यापक…
Chile’s president visited the South Pole on Friday in a bid to fortify his country’s territorial claims to part of Antarctica, as competition in the region is growing bit by bit. Gabriel Boric, the president, and a delegation of officials visited Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a U.S. research base; the first time, his office said,…
When mysterious drones began appearing over oil rigs and wind farms off Norway’s coast about three years ago, officials were not certain where they came from. But “we knew what they were doing,” Stale Ulriksen, a researcher at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, said in a recent interview. “Some of it was espionage, where they…
As signs emerged that President Biden was gearing up to stop the Japanese steel maker Nippon Steel from acquiring Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, top Japanese officials repeatedly warned that quashing the merger would hinder economic ties between the allies. Japan’s biggest business lobby, Keidanren, said in September that America’s investability would be tarnished if Nippon Steel’s…
He demanded the release of a convicted criminal and far-right agitator. He falsely accused the prime minister, Keir Starmer, of failing to go after child rapists when he was head of public prosecutions. He endorsed a post calling on King Charles III to dissolve Parliament and call elections to remove Britain’s seven-month-old Labour government, a…
Syria’s new leaders are set to meet the French and German foreign ministers in the capital, Damascus, on Friday in one of the highest-level Western diplomatic visits since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad last month. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s top diplomat, and Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, arrived in Damascus for the first such…