Putin Warns Ally Iran Against Escalating ‘Disastrous’ Conflict After Attack On Israel Russian President Vladimir Putin warned about the “disastrous” risk of escalated conflict in a phone call with his counterpart in Russian-allied Iran, the Kremlin said Tuesday, days after Iran ... 04/16/2024 - 4:08 am | View Link
Putin tells the Middle East to pull back from a catastrophic clash Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged all sides in the Middle East to refrain from action that would trigger a new confrontation which he warned would be fraught with catastrophic ... 04/16/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
'Putin Is Waiting For Trump': Ex-U.S. National-Security Adviser Voices Fears Over Ukraine, NATO Former U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton has voiced fears that a second Donald Trump presidency could sacrifice Ukraine to Russia and abandon NATO. Speaking to Current Time's Ksenia ... 04/16/2024 - 1:10 am | View Link
Russian elite revolt against Putin is not unrealistic — Ukraine's security chief A scenario where Russian elites turn against their leader, dictator Vladimir Putin, appears plausible, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, said in ... 04/15/2024 - 4:41 am | View Link
US will not take part in any Israeli retaliatory action against Iran President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the U.S. will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran, an option Netanyahu's war cabinet favors after a mass drone and missile ... 04/14/2024 - 11:37 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.