When Germans go to vote in one week’s time, after a polarising election campaign overshadowed by a far-right surge, they are expected to hand the chancellery to conservative Friedrich Merz. If the polls are right, it will fall to the Christian Democrat to deal with a storm of challenges roiling Germany — economic stagnation, a … Read more
The mineral ilmenite is extracted from mounds of sand deep in the earth and refined using a method that summons the force of gravity, resulting in a substance that glimmers like a moonlit sky. Ukraine boasts vast reserves of ilmenite – a key element used to produce titanium – in the heavy mineral sands … Read more
Official visit of Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy with the first lady Olena Zelenska to the United Arab Emirates. | Photo Credit: X/@ZelenskyyUa Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday (February 16, 2025) as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country. U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested … Read more
Singapore’s Workers’ Party Chief Pritam Singh walks outside the State Courts in Singapore on February 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Singapore’s Indian-origin Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh was found guilty on Monday (February 17, 2025) of giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee, a verdict that could see him disqualified from Parliament and … Read more
Even 200 years after the birth of Austria’s world-famous waltz king Johann Strauss II — widely revered like a modern-day pop star during his lifetime — his music has lost none of its magic. Best known for his rousing waltz The Blue Danube, which became Austria’s unofficial national anthem, many of his 500 dance pieces live on in … Read more
Smoke billows from chimneys as factories churn in South Korea’s steelmaking heartland, now under threat from Washington’s swingeing new tariffs on the port city’s largest export. | Photo Credit: AFP Smoke billows from chimneys as factories churn in South Korea’s steelmaking heartland, now under threat from Washington’s swingeing new tariffs on the port city’s largest … Read more
Muhsin Hendricks, considered to be the world’s first openly gay imam | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead on Saturday (February 15, 2025) near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police said. The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for … Read more
A Syrian White Helmet rescuer checks the wreckage of a car at the site of a US coalition airstrike targeting a leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, on a highway near the village of Batabo in northwest Syria, early on January 31, 2025. File | Photo Credit: AFP The U.S. military said on Sunday … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: AP Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said. The accident took place near the town of Kenieba in Mali’s gold-rich Kayes region, Taoule Camara, secretary general of the national union of gold counters … Read more
Representational image of a seismograph recording an earthquake. Photo: via Reuters Third group of deportees from U.S. land in Punjab’s Amritsar A United States aircraft carrying around 112 undocumented Indian immigrants, deported from the U.S. landed at Punjab’s Amritsar International Airport on Sunday night (February 16, 2025), even as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urged the youth … Read more