#G7Summit: India’s dedication to climate commitments is evident from its performance: PM Modi
Asserting that India’s dedication to climate commitments is evident from its performance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hoped that rich countries of G-7 will support India’s efforts in combating climate change and invited them to tap the huge market for clean energy technologies emerging in the country. In his remarks at the session on […]
Plane on fire after crash landing at Miami airport: 3 injured
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FLA.- A plane arriving from Santo Domingo at Miami International Airport caught on fire after it made a crash landing, tearing through a communications tower and a small building. The Red Air civilian transport aircraft flight 203 made an emergency landing at around 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, after attempting to land at the […]
A Russian journalist has auctioned off his Nobel Prize for helping children in Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine is still going on. Large numbers of people have been displaced during the devastating floods in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has had a profound effect on children. Meanwhile, a Russian journalist has auctioned off his Nobel Prize to help children in Ukraine. Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned his […]
German Catholic Church: German Catholic priests carried out 5,700 cases of sexual abuse – claim in report
German Catholic Church: At least 600 youths in the German diocese of Muenster have been recorded as victims of abuse by Catholic priests, but the actual number of victims could be 10 times higher. . This was said in a report published on Monday. According to the news agency AFP, the diocese has official records […]
First French fighter killed in Ukraine – media
A French fighter who joined the Ukrainian forces amid Moscow’s military offensive in the country has been killed in the Kharkov Region, the radio station Europe 1 reported on Friday. According its sources, the fighter was “mortally wounded by artillery fire.” “He is the first French fighter to be killed” since the beginning of the Russian offensive, Europe 1 […]
Ukraine court jails Russian soldier for life in war crimes trial
KYIV, May 23 – A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison on Monday for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. Vadim Shishimarin, a 21-year-old tank commander, had pleaded guilty to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the northeastern Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka […]
China’s Tibet Airlines plane with 122 people veers off runway, catches fire; over 40 injured
Over 40 people were injured when a passenger plane of China’s Tibet Airlines with 113 passengers and nine crew onboard veered off the runway and caught fire while taking off in the country’s southwest Chongqing city on Thursday, the second major aviation accident in the country in two months. All the 122 people aboard the […]
US House approves $40bn in Ukraine aid
The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a mammoth $39.8 billion package of military and other assistance to bolster Kiev against Moscow – more than 5% of the entire 2022 national security budget of the United States. Only 57 Republicans rejected the measure in a Tuesday vote that took place just hours after the text of […]
Moscow claims radio station broadcasting Russian programmes bombed in Transnistria
On the 62nd day of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Russian Federation claimed that unidentified individuals blew up a regional radio station in the disputed territory of Transnistria on Tuesday. Russia also stated that a regional radio station in Transnistria transmitted Russian radio programming. Transnistria is a breakaway pro-Russian separatist territory between Ukraine and Moldova. As […]
Global military spending break records; India ranks third highest military spender in 2021
The military spending of all nations combined set a new record in 2021, exceeding the $2 trillion mark for the first time ever, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed in a report published. Governments spent a total of $2.113 trillion on weapons last year. The top spenders were the US, China, India, the […]