18-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: The Australian government has reportedly dropped its stance recognizing West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a policy by former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, UK-based news outlet The Guardian reported on Monday. The language was adopted during the previous Conservative government in …

18-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BERLIN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The German Foreign and Interior Ministries launched a new program on Monday to take in Afghan citizens who are most at risk of persecution under the Taliban. Following Germany’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year, tens of thousands of Afghans who …

18-10-2022 LAGOS: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered 12,000 metric tonnes of food items from Nigeria’s strategic reserve for communities affected by catastrophic flooding last week. Some 603 people have died from one of the worst floods to have affected the country in recent history, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister …

18-10-2022 TEHRAN: The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps warned Saudi Arabia about the price the kingdom will have to pay for sponsoring anti-Iranian media outlets. In comments on the sidelines of a military exercise in northwest of Iran on Monday, Major General Hossein Salami took a swipe at …

18-10-2022 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: United States President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at next month’s G20 summit in Indonesia, a senior US official says, as tensions over the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production continue to reverberate. Biden will act “methodically” in …

Hyderabad Oct 17 (PMI): Commissioner of Police Rachakonda Sri Mahesh M Bhagwat IPS today has inaugurated Cyber crimes additional extension facility at Cyber Crime PS L B Nagar. This new extension has been set up for work convenience of the inspectors and staff along with an exclusive “convenience room” for …

17-10-2022 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accused United States President Joe Biden of “inciting chaos” after he expressed support for demonstrations against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died in Iranian government custody nearly a month ago. The protests started in mid-September after Amini, 22, died following …

17-10-2022 PORT-AU-PRINCE/ WASHINGTON/ OTTAWA: The US and Canada on Saturday delivered security equipment to Haiti, including armored vehicles, to help the impoverished country deal with the spreading security and health crises. US and Canadian air force planes landed in Port-au-Prince carrying “vital Haitian government-purchased security equipment, including tactical and armored …

17-10-2022 NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI: On the Global Hunger Index (GHI), India has slipped even further and is now behind its neighbors Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, the GHI report showed on Saturday. GHI tracks malnutrition and hunger in countries around the world. In 2021, India was at the 101st position …

17-10-2022 LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss is insisting on her devotion to “sound” economics as she heads into crisis talks with her new finance minister, and a tense week of plotting by Conservative critics. With even US President Joe Biden joining in attacks on her economic agenda, Truss wrote …