05-01-2025 SEOUL: Thousands of South Korean protesters for and against impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol have staged rival rallies in Seoul, a day after authorities failed to execute an arrest warrant on the suspended leader over his short-lived declaration of martial law last month. The protesters faced-off outside the presidential residence …
Read More »German & French foreign ministers meet new rulers in Syria
05-01-2025 DAMASCUS: The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they met its de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Friday on behalf of the European Union. Germany’s Annalena Baerbock and France’s Jean-Noel Barrot …
Read More »Panama reports sharp drop in irregular migration
05-01-2025 PANAMA CITY: The number of migrants and asylum seekers traversing the Darien Gap, the treacherous strip of jungle connecting South and North America has fallen by nearly 41 percent in the last year. On Thursday, Panama’s right-wing President Jose Raul Mulino announced the decline, touting it as a success …
Read More »New York judge sets Trump’s sentencing for January 10
05-01-2025 NEW YORK: United States President-elect Donald Trump is set to face a sentencing hearing for his criminal conviction in New York, mere days before he will be sworn in for a second term in the White House. On Friday, Judge Juan Merchan issued an 18-page written decision calling for …
Read More »Gaza family of 11 among dozens killed in Israeli strikes
05-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: A Palestinian family of 11 including eight children are among at least 28 Palestinians killed as the Israeli military’s intensified attacks on the war-battered Gaza Strip enter a third day. Amnesty International says Israel’s detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of …
Read More »Syria’s FM to head to UAE, Qatar & Jordan to ‘build partnerships’
05-01-2025 DAMASCUS/ DUBAI: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani has announced he will visit Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, having just made his first official foreign trip to Saudi Arabia earlier this week. The top diplomat in Syria’s new government said in a social media post on Friday …
Read More »Indian visa curbs amid Bangladesh tensions hurt patients
05-01-2025 DHAKA: Khadiza Khatun’s life took a devastating turn in September when doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital informed her that her 37-year-old husband, Mohammad Nuri Alam, urgently needed a liver transplant, a procedure unavailable in Bangladesh. After careful research, they decided to go to India’s Asian Institute of Gastroenterology …
Read More »We have to protect Telugu language: Union Minister Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad, Jan.4 (Shoukat-PMI): Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy today said it was the responsibility of all to protect the Telugu language and added that the movement to protect it should start from people’s homes. He was the chief guest at the 12th biennial conference of the World …
Read More »BGUS team meets HMRL MD to build higher metro pillars in Old City
Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): A delegation from the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samiti (BGUS) met HMRL MD NVS Reddy on Saturday to request that the elevated metro pillars in the Old City of Hyderabad be constructed at a higher level, ensuring that they do not obstruct the mass Ganesh immersion procession. The delegation, which …
Read More »We have to protect Telugu language: Union Minister Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy today said it was the responsibility of all to protect the Telugu language and added that the movement to protect it should start from people’s homes. He was the chief guest at the 12th biennial conference of the World …
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