President Droupadi Murmu with Slovak President Peter Pellegrini before a meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, on April 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI President Droupadi Murmu was, on Wednesday (April 9, 2025), received by President Peter Pellegrini of the Slovak Republic at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava. MS. Murmu arrived in Bratislava on Wednesday (April 9, … Read more
Russian President Putin and PM Modi maintain regular contact and also hold in-person meetings, particularly on the sidelines of international events. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the May 9 celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Germany in World War II, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey … Read more
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington on April 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump mocked tariff-hit nations on Tuesday (April 8, 2025), stating that they were ready to do anything while trying to negotiate with him. While speaking … Read more
Gabon votes on Saturday (April 12, 2025) to pick a president with junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema, the hot favourite to become the oil-rich country’s first elected leader since his August 2023 coup. Nineteen months after he ended more than five decades of Bongo dynastic rule widely viewed as corrupt, the 50-year-old career soldier has … Read more
Pro-monarchy supporters demanding the restoration of monarchy chant slogans as they wait to welcome former King of Nepal Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev outside the Tribhuvan International Airport, in Kathmandu, Nepal. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Nearly two decades since Nepal became a secular republic, a surge of pro-monarchy protests have swept the Himalayan nation, … Read more
All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh’s family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed. To Ms. Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the “Persian nose” she was born with proved a lucrative investment. … Read more
During previous government from 2019 to 2022, the figure was 16,000 hectares, according to data from the MapBiomas monitoring network. Representative file image | Photo Credit: Reuters Illegal gold mining in Indigenous Brazilian territories has declined dramatically since leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, a report by Greenpeace said … Read more
The paper was cited by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in a statement released last week explaining the calculations behind the major import tariffs announced by President Trump that threaten to pull the global economy into a recession. File | Photo Credit: Reuters An economist whose work was cited by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration … Read more
Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter. While much of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded … Read more
“Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron via AP) | Photo Credit: AP The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta will testify Wednesday before US senators keen to establish whether the social networking giant ever collaborated with the Chinese government. Former global … Read more