South Africa’s Rassie van der Dussen, right, and Heinrich Klaasen. (AP Photo) South Africa’s journey to the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals took an unexpected detour, with the team flying to Dubai and back within 18 hours. However, as they prepare to face New Zealand in Lahore on Wednesday, batter Heinrich Klaasen insists the whirlwind trip…
More than two dozen flights headed to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were impacted on Friday by recent rules barring flights during presidential helicopter trips, flight tracking site Flightradar24 said. After a January 29 collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet killed 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration adopted new rules…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen India called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s trip to India an “unprecedented and landmark” and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and she held a delegation-level talks where they discussed various things including trade, free trade agreement, digital green technologies to…
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in…
NEW DELHI: India now seems to be reviving its case for the procurement of six more advanced P-8I long-range maritime patrol and submarine-hunting aircraft from the US, which was put on hold around three years ago.Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s summit with President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, government sources told TOI the…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will embark on what is expected to be his final overseas trip in office this weekend, travelling to South Korea, Japan and France. The State Department announced Friday that Blinken would visit Seoul, Tokyo and Paris beginning Sunday. In South Korea, which is in the midst of political turmoil following…
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old techie accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk, had no prior connection to the health insurance giant, the New York Police Department has revealed. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Mangione, arrested earlier this week after a five-day manhunt, may have targeted Thompson because of…
Antony Blinken, America’s French-speaking, Europhile top diplomat, paid his last visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday on a bittersweet trip ahead of Donald Trump taking over in the United States. The US Secretary of State can look back on a tenure spent strengthening Washington’s transatlantic bond as Russia launched the largest conflict in…