Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: ANI “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sri Lanka on April 5, 2025,” President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced. Mr. Dissanayake was delivering a statement in Parliament on Friday (March 21, 2025) when he announced the date for Mr. Modi’s visit, according to news portal Adaderana.lk. As … Read more
Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, on March 25, 2023. File | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations (UN) children’s agency on Saturday (March 22, 2025) urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (March 21, 2025) took away security clearances for former U.S. President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (March 21, 2025) took away security clearances for former U.S. President Joe Biden, former Vice … Read more
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, right, shake hands during a joint press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, after their discussions at the trilateral Foreign Ministers meeting in Tokyo Saturday, March 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Foreign Ministers from Japan and its two neighbouring Asian … Read more
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 5,32,000 people from the four countries … Read more
Protests erupted across multiple Turkish cities on Friday (March 21, 2025) as people rallied against the arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning that street protests would not be tolerated. In Istanbul, police used pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets to push back … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Friday (March 21, 2025), one day after shooting down two projectiles launched by Houthi militants. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it fired a ballistic missile toward Ben Gurion … Read more
Elon Musk speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Billionaire Elon Musk took his campaign to cut the U.S. federal government into uncharted waters on Friday (March 21, 2025), holding an unprecedented top-level meeting at the Pentagon and calling for the prosecution of any Defense Department officials leaking false information … Read more
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Reuters Gunmen riding a motorbike fired eight shots at the facade of the Iraqi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Friday (March 21, 2025), the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said, in an incident that Turkey said caused no casualties “In the evening hours today, individuals on motorcycles … Read more
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineer contractor hoses down dust during debris removal following the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two Democratic U.S. senators on Friday (March 22, 2025) visited the charred ruins of Altadena nearly three months after a devastating fire and … Read more