Post Views: 77 Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, center, arrives to deliver his policy statement at the inaugural session of the parliament, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on November 21, 2024 | Photo Credit: AP The new parliament of Sri Lanka was convened on Thursday (November 21, 2024) for the first session after the ruling … Read more
Post Views: 36 The world’s richest man said he was taking aim at hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending [File] | Photo Credit: Brandon Bell Elon Musk outlined plans Wednesday for his new role as “efficiency” czar – signalling an assault on federal spending and staffing that would be backed by President-elect Donald … Read more
Post Views: 47 (L to R) Canadian Ambassador for Climate Change Catherine Stewart, Jose Luis Samaniego of Mexico, U.K. climate envoy Rachel Kyte, Swiss Federal Council member Albert Roesti, Norwegian climate minister Tore Onshuus Sandvik, Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gomez, Special Representative for Climate Change and National Climate Change Director of the Ministry of Environment of Panama, … Read more
Post Views: 55 Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Over a hundred writers, poets and publishers have come out with an open letter condemning JCB, the British bulldozer manufacturer and organiser of a literature prize, for allegedly “uprooting” the lives of poor and marginalised in India as well as Palestine. Signed by … Read more
Post Views: 48 The ICBM attack on Ukraine comes two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine that formally lowers the threshold for the country’s use of nuclear weapons. File | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight targeting Dnipro city in the central-east of the … Read more
Post Views: 58 The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a five-count criminal indictment of Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, and several of his business associates. The charges include promising more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to secure solar energy contracts, conspiracies to commit securities and wire fraud, … Read more
Post Views: 53 The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday (November 21, 2024) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defence Minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel respectively. Mr. Netanyahu’s office rejected … Read more
Post Views: 42 Pakistan Military official. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shia Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday (November 21, 2024), killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said. The … Read more
Post Views: 47 Watch: Kenya cancels airport and energy deals with Adani group after U.S. indicts the tycoon Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday (November 21, 2024) that he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process expected to hand control of the country’s main airport to the Adani Group | Photo Credit: Reuters … Read more
Post Views: 35 An activist holds a placard during the “People’s Plenary” at the COP29 United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A day before this round of UN climate talks are scheduled to end in Baku, developed and developing countries are far from agreeing on … Read more
