07-06-2022 BRASILIA: Brazil’s navy has dispatched a crew of 10 people to search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru. Cibelly Lopes, a navy spokesperson in the Brazilian border …

07-06-2022 US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has said there would be a “forceful” response from the United States, South Korea and the world if North Korea were to conduct a nuclear test. “Any nuclear test would be in complete violation of UN Security Council resolutions (and) there would …

07-06-2022 COLOMBO: There have been days when cybersecurity professional Asela Waidyalankara and his colleagues have sat in hotel lobbies to complete projects during power outages. Other days, they have run around Colombo looking for fuel for generators so they could work from home. “We have a buddy system at the …

07-06-2022 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a confidence vote that could have seen him removed from power. Despite profound discontent within his ruling Conservative Party, Johnson won a vote of confidence on Monday by 211 to 148 votes. Winning the vote means there cannot be another leadership …

06-06-2022 Bureau Report MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: An international diplomatic storm has engulfed India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following the sanctioning of two party spokespersons over insulting remarks the pair are reported to have made towards Prophet Muhammad. BJP national spokeswoman Nupur Sharma …

06-06-2022 ABUJA/ LAGOS: Gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria and also detonated explosives. Dozens are feared dead including children. Lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said the attackers targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as people gathered on Sunday. Among the dead were …

06-06-2022 LONDON: The politicians of the UK’s governing Conservative Party will hold a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday that could remove him as Britain’s leader as well as the head of the Conservative Party. Party official Graham Brady said he had received enough letters from …

06-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that have rattled the United States. In Philadelphia, a confrontation between two men escalated into …

06-06-2022 LONDON: President Vladimir Putin warned the United States in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine for use in high-precision mobile rocket systems. The United States has ruled out sending its own or NATO forces to Ukraine …

Hyderabad’6 June 22- Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao on Monday said that the BJP should first apologise to Indians at home for spewing hatred day in and day out. Reacting to reports that some Arab countries have demanded an apology from India for the blasphemous remarks made …