Dhaka: Bangladesh prodded India to end the impasse over the proposed agreement for sharing of water of the common river Teesta even as a meeting between the prime ministers of the two nations in New Delhi on September 6 resulted in the signing of seven pacts. New Delhi, however, refrained from promising Dhaka a timeline for...
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency on Monday raised its count of flood deaths by another 24. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan's northern mountains have brought floods that have affected 33 million people...
A video of an unhinged Caucasian man heckling an Indian in Poland has left the Internet seething. From calling the Indian a "parasite invader" to accusing him of "f****** up Europe", the man continues his unprovoked tirade for four minutes in the video that has been widely shared on social media. "Why are you in...
New York: An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has said that Iran is serious about achieving an agreement in Vienna because reviving the 2015 nuclear deal is in the interests of all parties. The parties to the nuclear talks have managed to resolve most of the issues pertaining to the restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally...
New York: Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has urged his followers to end their protests and withdraw from the Green Zone in Baghdad after clashes killed 22 people and wounded more than 200 others. At a televised press conference on August 30 in the Shia holy city of Najaf, south of the capital of Baghdad,...
New York: Diplomats are laying the groundwork for a potential visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the General Debate at the UN General Assembly, which would be his first trip abroad since the Russian invasion began on February 24. "We are prepared for the visit of any official, including the president," a spokesperson for the...
Moscow: Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the last of the titans in Russia who sought economic reforms through his famous 'glasnost' (openness) and 'perestroika' (reconstruction), died in a hospital in Moscow. He was 91. Gorbachev, in power between 1985 and 1991, helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze and was the last surviving...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, according to the Russian news agency. Sputnik News Agency citing the hospital stated that he died after a serious and long illness. “Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this...
Sadr had gone from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini’s challenger to subordinate By Steven Simon After a bout of violence, his followers are leaving Baghdad’s Green Zone, but the fragility of the government is no less resolved. The Iraqi political crisis that finally erupted in violence — claiming at least 30 lives in Baghdad as of this writing...
