US President Joe Biden will travel to India September 7 to attend the G20 summit on the sidelines of which he will also have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House has announced. India, President of the G20, will host global leaders for the Summit scheduled to take place on September...
Dominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ethan Nordean, 32, who led the group’s march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge. The former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio,...
Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China’s new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory. China published a new version of its national map on Monday to correct what Beijing has in the past referred to as “problematic maps” that it claims...
India has not yet received any confirmation on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s in-person participation at the upcoming G20 summit, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday amid reports that he is unlikely to travel to New Delhi for it. A majority of G20 leaders, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Australian...
North Korea says it has fired two short-range ballistic missiles to simulate nuclear strikes on military targets in South Korea. State media said the tests were held as a warning against the US deployment of strategic bombers to the region. South Korean media reported the missiles were fired off the east coast around midnight. The...
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been provided with a slew of new facilities at Attock District Jail and expressed his satisfaction over them to a top police officer during his visit to the prison in the Punjab province. Punjab IG Prisons Mian Farooq Nazir on Sunday visited Khan, who is serving a three-year...
Thousands of airline passengers faced long delays and flight cancellations at the end of the busy summer bank holiday weekend after a lengthy failure in the UK’s air traffic control system on Monday grounded hundreds of aircraft. National Air Traffic Services (Nats) said it had identified and remedied a “technical issue” that hit its ability...
Amid a public outcry over inflated electricity bills, Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar held an emergency meeting on Sunday during which he directed authorities to take “concrete steps” within 48 hours for a cut in the power tariff. The directives were issued at an emergency meeting at the PM’s Office (PMO) convened...
Former President Donald Trump surrendered Thursday at the Fulton County jail,where he was booked on 13 felony counts related to an alleged scheme to overturnthe results of the presidential election in Georgia.His surrender in Georgia marks the fourth time this year the former president hasturned himself in after criminal charges were brought against him by...
The head of the Wagner mercenary group, which in June attempted to topple Russia’s military leadership, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, with all passengers killed, Russian officials said. The crash comes two months after Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a short-lived rebellion — seen as the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...