02-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council’s 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern. The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a …

02-04-2023 BERLIN: The UK and Germany should fill the next chapters of their relationship “with the restless pursuit of a better tomorrow”, King Charles has said. His speech, in both English and German, was the first by a British monarch to the German parliament and was met with a standing …

02-04-2023 OTTAWA/ WASHINGTON: Authorities say they have recovered the bodies of eight migrants, including two children, who died trying to cross illegally from Canada into the US. A police helicopter spotted two more bodies in the St Lawrence River on Friday. Two families from Romania and India are among the …

02-04-2023 NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s court hearing has been set for Tuesday afternoon, according to the CBS News. The former president is expected to fly from Florida on his private plane and hand himself in with federal agents there to protect him. A grand jury has indicted Trump in connection …

02-04-2023 ARKANSAS: A powerful tornado advanced through Arkansas capital and surrounding areas on Friday causing rooftops to collapse, damaging cars and debris to turn up on the roadsides also claimed at least two lives and left a dozen others wounded, CBS news reported. As part of a monster storm system …

02-04-2023 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden declined to comment on Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as he exited the White House on Friday, sticking to the administration’s strategy of keeping a distance from the probe, as other prominent Democrats urged Trump to cooperate with the criminal justice process. “We …

02-04-2023 MOSCOW: Russian forces in Syria have protested over what Moscow described as “provocative actions” by United States forces also deployed in the country, Russia’s state news agency TASS has reported. TASS cited a senior Russian military official on Friday saying that “provocative” incidents had occurred in Syria’s northeastern province …

02-04-2023 FLORIDA: Lolita, the killer whale that bewitched tens and thousands with its incredible acrobatics at Miami Seaquarium, will be sent back to its natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest, media reported as its captors have decided to end its fifty-year-old captivity. After it was taken from the ocean in …

Hyderabad, April 1 ( Liyaqath Abedi PMI ): The Afzal Gunj police have booked a criminal case against BJP MLA T. Raja Singh under Sections 153 A 1(A) and 506 of IPC for making inflammatory speech against the people of minority community on Thursday. Singh made the speech during a shoba yatra rally …

01-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: After refusing to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the United Nations and procurement of oil from the country by New Delhi, visible cracks have emerged in the “strategic relationship” between the United States and India. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine …