28-02-2023 ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked people in a heavily quake-hit area of Turkey for understanding over rescue delays, amid mounting anger at the government’s response. On a visit to Adiyaman, Erdogan said the tremors and bad weather meant “we could not work as we would have liked”. …

28-02-2023 MEXICO CITY: Huge rallies have been held in several Mexican cities against what protesters say are government attempts to undermine the electoral authorities. The biggest was in Mexico City, where organizers say 500,000 people marched on the city’s main plaza. The local government put the number at 90,000. Lawmakers …

28-02-2023 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cyber security rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks. The move follows a rise in cyber-attacks since late last year with …

28-02-2023 LAGOS: Nigeria’s electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday’s presidential election. All three major parties have complained of irregularities. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not on the scale of previous elections. Here are details of the election process and current leaders. Eighteen candidates …

28-02-2023 SAO PAULO: The death toll from floods and landslides in southeast Brazil a week ago was officially increased to 64 Sunday, as the search continued for one missing person. Among the confirmed toll, 18 were children, the Sao Paulo state government said in a statement. More than an entire …

28-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between …

28-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead. Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Chief Minister of Telangana Hon’ble K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday condemned the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia of Aam Aadmi Party by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with Delhi excise policy scam and said that it …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Former Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, has called for a high-level investigation into the recent confusion regarding the 4% quota for Muslims under the BC-E category in jobs and education. In a media statement issued on Monday, Shabbir Ali welcomed the clarification issued by Chief Secretary A. Shanti …

Tirumala, Feb.27 (PMI): Former MP and the national executive committee member of BJP Vivek Venkat Swami today predicted that the ruling BRS party MLC K. Kavitha would soon go to jail in Delhi liquor scam. He said that Kavitha would be arrested like the deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish …