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...
Members of the BRICS economic group of major emerging economies are meeting this week inSouth Africa for a summit that could determine the future of the bloc – and how hard it pushesback against a world order it sees as unfairly dominated by the West.The group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has...
Well, there’s no debate about this: Right now, the Republican Party would easily re-nominate Donald Trump for 2024. And it’s not close. The former president now holds his largest lead over his rivals in our polling amid his recent legal troubles. In fact, most of his voters cite those troubles as yet one more reason...
The district attorney prosecuting former U.S. President Donald Trump on election interference charges in Georgia has proposed that his trial start in March of next year, a date that would have Trump in court mid-campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. The proposed March 4 trial date is one day before Super Tuesday, during which...