Image courtesy: France 24. Russian President Putin met Prigozhin, the head of the private force, 5 days after the coup attempt. The Kremlin spokesman says that the meeting between President Putin and Prigozhin took place on June 29 in Moscow. President Putin called 35 people including Wagner chief, unit commanders for the meeting. The meeting…
Mr. Guterres offered his condolences to the families of the victims and expressed hopes for a speedy recovery to the dozens who were injured, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said in a statement issued that day. The Sudanese army and rival military group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have been battling since mid-April. Hundreds of…
The “relief chief” was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York just as these two separate lifesaving initiatives are set to expire in the coming days. He also voiced concern over gender-based violence in countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and noted lack of hope over the crisis in…
Security forces raided the home of Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s private military company Wagner, and recovered gold bricks and modern weapons. Photos of the Wagner chief’s alleged home have been released by Russian media following a police raid. The pictures show that Prigozhin lived in a very luxurious house. It should be noted that…
He stressed that AI must benefit everyone, including the third of humanity who are still offline, and insisted on the need to urgently find consensus on what the guiding norms for AI deployment should be. The UN chief was speaking at the “AI for Good” summit organized in Geneva by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),…
“Israel’s airstrikes and ground operations in a crowded refugee camp were the worst violence in the West Bank in many years,” said António Guterres, referring to the two day long military assault in Jenin which began on Monday morning, involving the use of airstrikes, and missiles fired from drones. According to the Palestinian health ministry…
Photos courtesy of Twitter Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan, the leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has apologized for his party’s leader urinating on a man belonging to a religious minority. Bharatiya Janata Party member, Shivraj Singh Chouhan took to micro-blogging website Twitter in a few tweets in which he can be seen…
Brussels: NATO, the 31-nation military alliance, has decided to retain NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for another year. According to global media reports, Stoltenberg said on his social media website that he is happy and proud of the NATO alliance’s decision to retain his position as Secretary General until October 1, 2024. He said that…
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shengfu has met with Russian military chief Admiral Nikolai Yumenov. The Chinese Ministry of Defense said in its statement about this meeting in Beijing. The Chinese Defense Minister said that he was hopeful to strengthen the ties between the navies of the two countries at all levels. He added that there…
“We must not leave this for our children to fix – no matter how inspiring their activism,” he told the Human Rights Council, advocating for a “just transition” to a green economy. “I ask every member of this Council to take this clear message out of the Palais des Nations and into every aspect of…
