13-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: A court in the eastern state of West Bengal began the trial on Monday of a police volunteer accused of raping and murdering a doctor at a government hospital in August, a case that has sparked outrage over the lack of safety …

13-11-2024 TAIPEI: There is no new “stage of talks” with the United States at the moment for arms sales, Taiwan’s government said on Monday, as the island considers how best to respond to US President-elect Donald Trump’s previous demands that Taipei pay for protection. Trump, who won a second term …

13-11-2024 WEST PALM BEACH/ WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the conversation said, but the Kremlin denied the two had spoken. The source told Reuters on Sunday that Trump, who has criticized …

13-11-2024 TOKYO: Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime minister on Monday, said a tabloid report about his extra-marital affair with a model was “basically true”. “I apologize for the trouble caused,” the Democratic Party for the …

12-11-2024 BAKU: Scientists say 2024 it is on track to become the hottest year on record. In its latest State of the Climate report, released on the first day of the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the World Meteorological Organization paints a sobering picture. The report shows 2015-2024 to …

12-11-2024 NEW DELHI: Global oil prices “would have hit the roof” if big importer India had not bought oil from Russia following the Ukraine war, India’s oil minister said, adding that prices would determine where the country buys oil from. India, the world’s third largest oil importer and consumer, has …

12-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a new United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at risk of starvation. “Rakhine’s economy has stopped functioning,” said a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report released late on Thursday. …

12-11-2024 BEIJING/ MANILA: China has reasserted its territories around a flashpoint reef in the South China Sea after the Philippines defined its sea boundaries in the contested waters. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr signed two laws on Friday to define the country’s maritime entitlements and set designated sea lanes and …

12-11-2024 RIYADH/ TEHRAN: Saudi Arabia’s top military official has visited Tehran for talks with Iranian officials in a rare high-level meeting since the countries restored ties last year, Iran’s state media reported, General Chief of Staff Fayyad al-Ruwaili of the Saudi armed forces met his Iranian counterpart, General Mohammad Bagheri, …

12-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A suspected rebel has been killed in a gunfight with security forces in the Indian-administered Kashmir, the army said, days after rebels killed two members of a government-backed militia. “One terrorist has been neutralised by the security forces (in Zabarwan forest near …