Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown. File | Photo Credit: AP The Cook Islands said on Saturday (February 15, 2025) that it signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China, a move expected to raise concerns in New Zealand with which it has constitutional ties. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Chinese Premier Li … Read more
The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude readings in the moments before the crash, and also may not have heard key instructions from air traffic controllers to move behind the plane, investigators said Friday (February … Read more
Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. | Photo Credit: Reuters The campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy spread on Friday (February 14, 2025), firing more than 9,500 workers who handled … Read more
FPeople at an election night watch party reacts after an abortion rights amendment to the Missouri constitution passed on Nov. 5, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. File | Photo Credit: AP Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into … Read more
A supporter holds a sign following a hearing in the multi-state lawsuit over President Trump’s order ending all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19, outside a courthouse in Seattle, Washington, U.S., February 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A second federal judge on Friday (February 14, … Read more
Former Biju Janata Dal MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda’. File | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda to head 31-member select committee to examine Income Tax Bill The select committee of the Lok Sabha, which will examine the Income-Tax Bill, 2025, was constituted on Friday with BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda appointed as chairman of … Read more
United States Vice-President JD Vance, second right, and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, third right, meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance pledged on … Read more
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers are seen sitting on top of a truck driving in the streets of Bukavu on February 14, 2025. The intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has provoked fears of a regional war. Several of the DRC’s nine neighbouring countries, as … Read more
Kevin Kelly, the Irish Ambassador to India and Bangladesh, meets Chief Adviser Mohammad Yunus of the interim government in Dhaka on February 10. Bangladesh will soon witness the birth of a new political party that will safeguard the young generation’s contribution to the uprising that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024. Nahid Islam, … Read more
Donald Trump has floated the possibility of cutting off aid to longstanding allies Jordan and Egypt should they refuse his plan. File | Photo Credit: AP Saudi Arabia will host the leaders of four Arab countries at a summit on February 20 to discuss President Donald Trump’s proposal for a U.S. takeover of Gaza, a source … Read more