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Brazil, Colombia presidents boost cooperation ahead of Amazon Summit

10 Jul 2023 00:24 AM IST

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro to build momentum for an upcoming regional summit on the Amazon rainforest and enhance efforts for its protection. The encounter took place on Saturday in Colombia’s Leticia, a town in the Amazon’s triple border region between

Syria revokes BBC’s Media accreditation, alleges ‘Fake News’ spread

10 Jul 2023 00:23 AM IST

Syria’s Information Ministry has cancelled the BBC’s media accreditation, accusing the British public broadcaster of biased and fake news in its coverage of the war-torn country.The announcement came days after BBC Arabic released an investigative documentary about the illicit drug trade in Syria, where they highlighted links between the estimated

Protests held across Israel ahead of vote on judicial overhaul Bill

09 Jul 2023 13:49 PM IST

Protests were held across Israel on Saturday night for the 27th consecutive weekend against the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary with legislation that would roll back some Supreme Court powers and give the coalition decisive sway in selecting judges, according to The Times of Israel. According to overhead imagery

Kenya protests resulted in 3 deaths and the arrest of the ex governor

09 Jul 2023 10:22 AM IST

At least three people were killed during the protest in Kenya as police chased after the demonstrators, who showed up in large numbers to protest the high cost of living and voice their displeasure with the recently passed Finance Act, 2023, according to a report from Kenya’s The Sunday Standard.

Pakistan: Nearly 7 people killed, 14 injured in cylinder blast

08 Jul 2023 15:15 PM IST

At least seven people have been killed and 14 others were wounded on Saturday after a gas cylinder exploded in a vehicle in Bhalwal tehsil of Punjab’s Sargodha district in Pakistan, Dawn reported citing authorities. Seven people died on the spot while 14 others were injured, Pakistan-based Dawn reported citing

Pakistan Election Commission issues advisory after ransomware attack

08 Jul 2023 13:21 PM IST

According to Pakistani news outlet Dawn, the Election Commission of Pakistan has issued a warning after a ransomware attack targeted some of its staff. Alarm has been stirred by the attack as Pakistan prepares for national elections in a few months. The ECP in its advisory asked the employees to

50 killed in rain-related incidents across Pakistan in last few days

08 Jul 2023 00:43 AM IST

Torrential rains in Pakistan have killed at least 50 people and injured 87 others while damaging scores of residential properties in the past few days, the country’s disaster management agency said on Friday. The pre-monsoon rains began in the last week of June and have continued at short intervals across

Twitter threatens legal action against Meta’s Threads

08 Jul 2023 00:41 AM IST

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week as a rival to Elon Musk’s social media platform In a letter Wednesday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter,

Imran Khan approaches Supreme Court against Court order

08 Jul 2023 00:39 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party chief and former prime minister Imran Khan has petitioned in Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s directive to the trial court that had asked for a re-examination of the maintainability of the Toshakhana corruption case within a week. Khan, 70, was indicted in the Toshakhana corruption

Lviv under siege: 6 killed and dozens injured in Russian cruise missile strike

08 Jul 2023 00:38 AM IST

Russia fired cruise missiles at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least six people in an apartment building in what officials said was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since the Kremlin’s forces invaded the country last year. Emergency crews

Zelenskyy boosts Ukraine’s NATO bid in Bulgaria and czechia

08 Jul 2023 00:37 AM IST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the capitals of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, discussing military aid and receiving assurances of support for Ukraine’s entry into NATO after its war with Russia is over. Czech President Petr Pavel said on Thursday that it is in the interest of his country and

Global concerns : Rise as France violence surge , Russia crisis, India’s SCO focus

08 Jul 2023 00:34 AM IST

The world shuddered by the violence in France this week. When everyone was looking forward to the SCO summit under the chairpersonship of India, vicious violence in France shook the world, and raised multiple questions. France is burning and the associated reasons need to be thoroughly analysed at global level