Myanmar and its close ally Russia signed a memorandum on investment cooperation in a special economic zone in Dawei, including construction of a port and an oil refinery, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development said on Sunday. The document was signed by the head of the Russian ministry Maxim Reshetnikov and Myanmar’s Minister for Investment and … Read more
Drone view shows destroyed buildings in the frontline town of Toretsk, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday (February 23, 2025) that … Read more
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has criticised the Left’s “double standards” in perceiving conservatives globally, saying when leaders like herself, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi collaborate they are called a “threat to democracy” while leftist leaders are praised for similar alliances. … Read more
A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah’s former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Tens of thousands of people packed into … Read more
For the financial year 2023-24, an obligation of a total of $97 million (about ₹825 crore) has been made by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the seven projects, the Finance Ministry report said. | Photo Credit: Reuters Amid a raging political controversy over the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s alleged … Read more
A woman lays a rosary near candles adorned with pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is battling pneumonia, in Rome | Photo Credit: AP Pope Francis, in critical condition with a complex lung infection, rested well during a peaceful night following a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican … Read more
In this photograph taken on January 22, 2025, police personnel stand guard as workers use excavators at the construction site of a cable transportation system, leading to the Pathibhara Devi temple in Taplejung district, in Koshi province of Nepal. | Photo Credit: AFP At least 24 people, including 12 security personnel, were injured in clashes … Read more
A military vehicle moves outside the Israeli military prison, Ofer near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel said Sunday (February 23, 2025) it was scaling up a weekslong offensive in the occupied West Bank, sending in tanks to a militant stronghold and pledging to keep troops in place for … Read more
Delegates affiliated to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) react during a meeting for the planned signing, later postponed, of a political charter that would provide for a “Government of Peace and Unity” to govern the territories the force controls in Nairobi, Kenya on February 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces … Read more
