New York: North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un called for his country to expand production of "weapon-grade nuclear materials" and build more powerful weapons, state media reported. Kim was briefed by officials from the country's nuclear weapons institute, the official Korean Central News Agency reported, and said that North Korea should prepare to use its nukes "anytime...
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has named an eight-year-old US-born Mongolian boy as the reincarnation of a spiritual leader. He has been recognized as the reincarnation of the third most important leader in Tibetan Buddhism as the 10th Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoche. The elderly spiritual leader was pictured with the boy during a...
London: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman were heckled and told to “go away” during a short walkabout in an Essex town center. The pair started walking down Chelmsford high street just before 9am, joined by three local police officers. The street was quiet and they did not stop to chat to any...
New York: Amid nationwide protests, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would suspend the legislation of his contentious plan to overhaul the country's judiciary by about a month to allow "dialogue" between coalition and opposition lawmakers. He made the remarks in a televised speech earlier this week, which came after tens of thousands...
London: Scotland's Parliament confirmed Humza Yousaf will replace Nicola Sturgeon as first minister, making him the youngest and the first Muslim leader of a government in western Europe. This week, Yousaf (37), narrowly won a Scottish National Party (SNP) leadership battle to clinch the party's top job, vowing to rejuvenate the stalled pursuit of independence for...
New York: The political party led by Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to face automatic dissolution by the military-appointed election commission as it declined to register for a planned general election it denounced as a sham. Critics say the polls will be neither free nor fair in a country ruled by the...
New York: China spent $240 billion bailing out 22 developing countries between 2008 and 2021, with the amount soaring in recent years as more have struggled to repay loans spent building "Belt & Road" infrastructure, according to a study published this week. Almost 80 per cent of the rescue lending was made between 2016 and 2021,...
Islamabad: Pakistan, the closest ally of China, has decided to skip the Democracy Summit, which began in Washington this week, opting instead to engage with the US bilaterally to strengthen democratic values, the Foreign Office here said. The virtual summit is co-sponsored by the US Department of State and USAID on the theme of “Global Declaration...
By KS Tomar The foundation of one-person rule in China was laid in 2018 when a scripted gathering elected Xi Jinping as general secretary and now his ascendency to totalitarian position is embedded in the art of camouflaging the world about zero opposition in national People’s Congress having a blind support of 2,952 members, who...
