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The story so far: Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have signed distribution pacts with SpaceX Corp.’s Starlink service to bring satellite internet access to India. The distribution pacts are a reversal from the telecom industry’s reluctance to quickly make the Starlink service available in India without auctions for the satellite airwaves. What is Starlink? Starlink … Read more
France’s President Emmanuel Macron. | Photo Credit: AP The stationing of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, as proposed by Britain and France as part of a ceasefire agreement with Russia, is a question for Kyiv to decide and not Moscow, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview. Mr. Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said on Sunday (March 16, 2025), as Washington and Kyiv’s European allies press Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak … Read more
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. | Photo Credit: AFP The United States has sent over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday (March 16, 2025), after U.S. counterpart Donald Trump invoked wartime authorities to expel migrants. Mr. Trump signed an order invoking the Alien … Read more
A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, wanted by Indian security agencies for several deadly terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, was eliminated by gunmen in an attack in Pakistan, officials said on Sunday (March 16, 2025). | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, wanted by Indian security agencies for several deadly terror attacks … Read more
Bangladeshi police stand as they guard outside the High Court building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. File | Photo Credit: AP The High Court on Sunday (March 16, 2025) upheld a trial court verdict handing down the death penalty to 20 students of an elite university in Dhaka for beating to death a fellow second-year student over … Read more
A person holds a rosary and a phone as South American community members at Gemelli hospital, in Rome. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Francis continues his recovery from double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital with the Vatican expected to issue the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer as a written text for the fifth straight week. The … Read more
Rescue workers stand in front of a club after massive fire broke out in Kocani, North Macedonia, on March 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A massive fire that broke out early Sunday (March 16, 2025) in a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani has killed 51 people and injured about 100 more, … Read more
In this file photo, Chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at a rally in Tehran, Iran. | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday (March 16, 2025) threatened a “decisive” response to any attack, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a wave of air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels and warned … Read more
A roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying security forces in restive southwestern Pakistan on Sunday (March 16, 2025), killing at least five officers and wounding 10 others, police said. The attack occurred in Naushki, a district in Balochistan, said Zafar Zamanani, a local police chief. He said the blast also badly damaged another nearby … Read more