19-12-2022 SUVA: Fiji’s two main rival political parties headed by former coup leaders are deadlocked after Wednesday’s general election, final results show. The Fiji First of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka’s People’s Alliance will each get 26 parliamentary seats. They now face a race to form …

19-12-2022 LONDON: About 1,200 members of the military and 1,000 civil servants are to be drafted in to cover for striking ambulance and Border Force staff over Christmas. The government say the personnel will plug staffing gaps and keep front-line services running. Some 10,000 ambulance staff in England and Wales …

19-12-2022 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian search and rescue teams are scouring a holiday campsite in the Selangor state for survivors after a landslide killed at least 21 people. Families were sleeping in their tents when the landslide happened around 03:00 Friday (19:00 GMT Thursday) at a farm stay in Batang Kali …

19-12-2022 JERUSALEM: Israel says it has deported Palestinian-French human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri, capping a years-long attempt to expel the Jerusalem-born advocate who had been in detention without charges since March. The deportation came amid calls for French President Emmanuel Macron to oppose the deportation to France, whose foreign ministry …

19-12-2022 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired two medium-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korean and Japanese officials. South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff said the launches, fired about 50 minutes apart, took place from North Korea’s Tongchang-ri area on …

19-12-2022 TUNIS: Tunisia’s main opposition coalition has said President Kais Saied must resign after fewer than 9% of eligible voters took part in parliamentary elections. The National Salvation Front head, Nejib Chebbi, said Saturday’s poll was a “fiasco”, calling for mass protests to demand snap presidential elections. The vote was …

19-12-2022 BERLIN: Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, has been experiencing serious technical problems with its Puma infantry fighting vehicles, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday. After a training exercise involving 18 state-of-the-art Puma infantry fighting vehicles, not a single one was left operational, the report said. …

Hyderabad, Dec.18 (PMI): The founder president of YSRTP YS Sharmila today reacted sharply against the Chief Minister of the KCR over the news reports that the state government was going to increase the power charges once again to recover around Rs.17,000 crore losses. She alleged that KCR was going to …

Hyderabad, Dec.18 (press media of india )Union Minister of Culture and Tourism G Kishan Reddy said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working 24X7 to ensure medical services are accessible to the people of Telangana. In a release on Sunday, Kishan Reddy said the Union government has sofar released Rs. …

Hyderabad, Dec.18 (press media of india-Shoulat): BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr. K. Laxman said that they want simultaneous elections to the state assembly and Lok Sabha in the state.  Targeting CM KCR, he alleged that the CM was not making efforts to receive funds from the central government and crying …