Trump pledges to end war during call with Zelenskyy
Donald Trump has pledged to end Ukraine’s war with Russia after its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reached out to the former US president to congratulate him on his Republican presidential nomination. The two leaders spoke on Friday over the phone. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and I had a very good phone call earlier...
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Biden vows to fight on; to get back on campaign trail next week
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Despite curfew, deaths mount in Bangladesh student protests
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Houthis strike another ship in Gulf of Aden
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CrowdStrike failure highlights fragility of globally connected technology
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Hindus largest minority community in Pak with 3.8 million population
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Ramaphosa vows renewed efforts under new govt
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Quake hits north Chile
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Zelenskyy urges Britain to help it strike deeper inside Russia
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Britain’s new government to help Ukrainian forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes on his country, as he gave a rare address by a foreign leader to a UK Cabinet meeting. Zelenskyy said “long-range capability” to destroy sites where Russian weapons are concentrated is...
Police officer wounded in knife attack in Paris; attacker killed
A police officer was wounded in a knife attack in Paris on Thursday in the high-end Champs-Elysees neighbourhood and the assailant was shot and died of his injuries, authorities said, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said the attack did not appear...
2019 terror attack: SL sends senior police officer on compulsory leave
A top Sri Lankan police officer, blamed for criminal negligence in the 2019 Easter suicide attacks that killed over 270 people, including 11 Indians, has been sent on compulsory leave, it was announced here. Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena, the number two in the police force, has been sent on compulsory leave...
Another chief of China’s strategic missile force under probe for corruption
(): China’s ruling Communist Party has announced an anti-corruption investigation against another head of its strategic missile force, which continues to be plagued by graft at its top echelons, a media report said on Friday. Former Defence Minister Gen Li Shangfu, who earlier headed the nine-year-old Rocket Force, which handles...
S Korea restarts propaganda broadcasts across border
South Korea said Friday it has restarted blasting propaganda broadcasts into North Korea to retaliate against the North’s latest round of trash-carrying balloon launches, a resumption of Cold War-style tactics that are raising animosities between the rivals. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it used frontline...
‘Israel’s settlement policy in occupied territories violates international law’
(): The top United Nations court has ruled that Israel’s settlement policy and use of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territories violate international law. The panel of 15 judges from around the world at the International Court of Justice said “the transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank...
Trump calls for unity post assassination attempt
In his first major public address since surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump gave a clarion call for unity as he accepted his Republican party’s presidential nomination with a pledged to deliver a government that will begin four greatest years in American history if he is elected in November. The 78-year-old...
