21-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran condemned on Thursday a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, which would pave the way for sanctions against the powerful military force. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian “strongly criticized the emotional approach of the European Parliament and labelled the …
Read More »conviction one petty case against respondent L. PRASHANTH RAO
Hyderabad’Date 20.1.2023-Today got conviction one petty case against respondent L. PRASHANTH RAO S/O L. SADANAND RAO, Age 26 yrs, Occ- pvt job, R/o Safilguda secunderabad, Brief fact of the case are that yesterday ie on 19.01.2023 BC-I received a Dail 100 call from Manisha mery regarding that one person by …
Read More »Syria, NATO on agenda as top US, Turkey diplomats meet
20-01-2023 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is hosting Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Washington, DC for a meeting expected to be dominated by a potential sale of F-16 fighter jets and Turkey’s refusal to approve Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession. The meeting on Wednesday represented the …
Read More »Indian minister’s tiger cull comment sparks row
20-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KERALA: An Indian state minister’s comments on culling tigers has sparked a debate on conservation. AK Saseendran, wildlife minister in Kerala, was reported as saying that his government may consider solutions including sterilization or culling to check tiger numbers in the state. He …
Read More »France strikes bid to halt Macron’s rise in retirement age
20-01-2023 PARIS: President Macron’s reform program faces a make-or-break moment, as French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday against his plans to push back the age of retirement. A new bill due to go through parliament will raise the official age at which people can …
Read More »US, Germany head for showdown over tanks for Ukraine
20-01-2023 KYIV/ BERLIN: Ukraine pleaded on Thursday for the West to finally send it heavy tanks as the defence chiefs of the United States and Germany headed for a showdown over weapons Kyiv says could decide the fate of the war. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Germany on …
Read More »Israel releases Palestinian prisoner after 40 years
20-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: The second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, Maher Younis, has been released after serving four decades in Israeli prisons. Maher, 65, was released from Eshel prison near Beer Sabe’ (Beer Sheva) in southern Israel just before 7am (04:00 GMT) on Thursday. He was arrested in 1983 …
Read More »US arrests Russian crypto boss for alleged criminal ‘haven’
20-01-2023 WASHINGTON: US authorities said on Wednesday that they had arrested the owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato for alleged money laundering, hailing the move as a global “blow to the crypto crime ecosystem.” Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian living in Shenzhen, China, was held in Miami overnight and was …
Read More »UN expresses ‘concern’ over Guatemala investigations
20-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has issued a statement expressing “concern” after Guatemala announced it would investigate a former anti-corruption investigator assigned to the country. Ivan Velasquez, a Colombian who led the UN’s anti-corruption efforts in Guatemala from 2013 to 2019, is under investigation for “illegal, arbitrary and abusive …
Read More »Greenland temperatures hottest in 1,000 years
20-01-2023 NEW YORK/ LONDON: New data has revealed that temperatures in Greenland are the warmest they have been in 1,000 years, underscoring the growing impact of human-driven climate change on the natural world. A study published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday found that temperatures have risen 1.5 degrees …
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