New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly criticised US President Joe Biden’s decision to honour billionaire philanthropist George Soros with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. […]
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Space Debris Crashes in Kenyan Village, Suspected Rocket Stage Part Identified
A large metallic fragment, described as an 8-foot-wide ring weighing around 500 kilograms, crashed into Mukuku village, Makueni County, Kenya, on December 30. The object, […]
200 Years On, ‘Mystery Volcano’ That Cooled Earth In 1831, Found
The annual average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere came down by around 1 degree Celsius during one of the most powerful eruptions in the 19th […]
Russia Fines 7 Nightclub Revellers For “Looking Too Gay”
At least seven people were fined in Russia for “looking too gay” after a police raid on a nightclub in Tula in February, an analysis […]
5 Global Elections To Watch In 2025
The coming 12 months can’t promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the world’s population headed […]
UN Security Council’s 5 New Non-Permanent Members Take Office
United Nations: Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Their two-year term officially […]
Zelensky Says “Unpredictable” Trump Could Help End War
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview aired Thursday that US President-elect Donald Trump’s “unpredictability” could help end the war with Russia. Trump, […]
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense Among 45 US Entities Penalised By China
Washington: China has escalated its counter-offensive against the United States by intensifying its sanctions on American defence firms. In less than a week, Beijing today […]
World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats
Regina De Dominicis – who also heads the agency’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office – issued her plea for action after another small boat […]
Opinion | India Must Play To Its Strengths In 2025
The world in 2024 stood at a crossroads, with global fault lines deepening and crises multiplying. Wars in Europe and the Middle East upended the […]