File picture of French President Emmanuel Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace in Paris | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday (February 20, 2025) he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line … Read more
President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP Saudi Arabia’s emergence as a neutral venue for dialogue to resolve long-festering conflicts in Europe and West Asia is not sudden and is based on a tradition of helping partner countries caught in conflicts, said leading Saudi editors and commentators on Thursday (February 20, 2025). Addressing the … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “strong” ties with Washington on Thursday (February 21, 2025), as he met U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv a day after Donald … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China came out in support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, at a G20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday (February 20, 2025), while U.S. allies rallied around Ukrainian … Read more
The Justice Department in August 2023 filed an administrative complaint alleging SpaceX from 2018 to 2022 routinely discouraged asylum recipients and refugees. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday (February 20, 2025) said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain … Read more
Indians deported from the US being escorted by the police as they leave the airport after their arrival, in Amritsar, early Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: – Deportations from U.S. put spotlight on human trafficking syndicates Large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants from the United States to India has put the spotlight on human trafficking … Read more
Israeli police said that explosions rocked several buses in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening (February 20, 2025) in what they described as a “suspected terror attack”, without giving any immediate reports of injuries. “Preliminary report – Suspected terror attack. Multiple reports have been received of explosions involving several buses at … Read more
K.T.M. Udayanga Hemapala, Secretary to the Ministry of Energy, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: Meera Srinivasan Colombo is not seeking to renegotiate the contentious renewable energy project with Adani Green, a top Sri Lankan official said, a week after the company abruptly pulled out of a wind farm initiative in the island’s Northern Province. Adani … Read more
The Senate narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency despite doubts from Democrats about his qualifications and concerns … Read more
A Pakistani separatist group claimed responsibility for a late night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside the country’s largest airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight persons, officials and the insurgent group said on Monday. The attack by the Baloch Liberation Army outside the airport in the southern port city … Read more