Iran seizes Marshall Islands oil tanker in Gulf of Oman According to the US Navy, the Iranian Navy has seized an oil tanker off the Marshall Islands. The US Navy further says that the Iranian Navy’s action in the Gulf of Oman is against international law. The US Navy is monitoring the situation of the…
Turkey’s Health Minister has said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in good health and will soon resume his normal activities. From Ankara, the Turkish Health Minister added that the effect of inflammation in President Erdogan’s stomach has decreased. Meanwhile, according to the news agency, the Turkish president had canceled all engagements due to stomach…
Russia has claimed to occupy the territories of the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. From Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense says that the Russian army has captured four areas of Bakhmut city. The Russian Defense Ministry added that the western, northern and southwestern blocks of the city of Bakhmut have been captured. On…
In America, the use of social media by the youth is becoming a headache for the parents as well as the government, against which efforts have been started. According to foreign media, two major US states, Utah and Arkansas, have set a limit on the use of social media by people under the age of…
Pakistan signed an agreement to buy cheap petrol from Russia; Photo: File Washington: The spokesperson of the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that Pakistan is not opposed to the agreement to buy oil from Russia, each country is free to enter into agreements keeping its interest in front. According to the World News…
44-year-old father marries son’s 20-year-old girlfriend in India; Photo: File Kanpur: In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the father took his son’s girlfriend to another city and married her, who was detained by the police. According to Indian media, 44-year-old Kamlesh used to work as a laborer and his son also helped him. While…
“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called the Public Order Bill “deeply troubling legislation”, after it completed its passage through parliament on Wednesday. “It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop and search individuals, including without suspicion; defines some of the new criminal offences in a…
UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.”…
Wednesday morning in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Ms. Mohammed met at the Palacio de La Moneda with President Gabriel Boric to discuss the acceleration of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country. The President delivered the National Strategy for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The UN Resident Coordinator…
