Taiwan’s newly elected president, Lai Ching-tae, said Taiwan only wants to follow the path of peace. Therefore, China should respect the wishes of the Taiwanese people. Stop making military and political threats to Taiwan. He made the call to Beijing in his first speech since being sworn in as Taiwan’s president on Monday. At this […]
Read MoreFormer Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has alleged that he has an audio recording of former Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, which contains information to oust him and bring Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to power. He made this allegation while addressing a party meeting in Lahore on Saturday. The 74-year-old three-time former prime minister and […]
Read MoreAn application has been made to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Monday (May 20), the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, gave the information himself. The declaration of application has also been published on the website of the court. It can be […]
Read MoreIran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Monday that First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is in charge of the executive branch and has a maximum period of 50 days to hold elections following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported. Five days of national mourning have […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s coordinating minister of investment said that Elon Musk will consider an offer to build an electric vehicle battery plant in the country, after the CEO of Tesla met with President Joko Widodo on Monday. Musk was not immediately available for comment after minister Luhut Pandjaitan made his remarks to reporters. Musk and Widodo met […]
Read MoreIranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday. The charred wreckage of the helicopter which crashed on Sunday carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian […]
Read MoreKyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with AFP on Friday urged China and countries of the Global South to participate in a peace summit in Switzerland next month. The Swiss government announced that it would host a high-level peace conference for Ukraine in mid-June, but said Russia would not attend. Uncertainty surrounds the […]
Read MoreNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered accelerated production to strengthen the country’s nuclear force more rapidly, on the same day he oversaw a test of tactical ballistic missiles with new guidance system, state media KCNA said on Saturday. While visiting an arms factory on Friday, Kim made the production order “to cope with …the […]
Read MoreBy Sanjay Kapoor Amethi/Rae Bareli, India – Irfan*, a tea stall owner, is convinced that change is afoot. “There has not been much traffic on this road from Rae Bareli to Amethi ever since the Congress lost power in 2014,” he says, referring to two towns and a party that for decades have been synonymous […]
Read MoreCanada announced Thursday for the first time sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of committing acts of violence against civilians in the West Bank. The United Kingdom, France, the European Union and the United States took similar measures in recent months. “With these measures, we are sending a clear message that acts of extremist settler violence […]
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