Waves crash on the coast of Sansha town as Typhoon Gaemi approaches, in Ningde, Fujian province, China. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “Eleven people were killed after a mudslide hit a house in south-eastern China on July 28 as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region,” state media said. Elsewhere…
Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sits next to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his official endorsement to reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s ninth president on July 28, following elections earlier this month. In a message read by the director of Mr….
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during the unveiling of Mahatma Gandhi’s bust in Edogawa, Tokyo, Sunday, July 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The timeless message of Mahatma Gandhi that solutions do not come from a battlefield and no era should be an era of war is applicable even today when the world is witnessing…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will join their Japanese counterparts Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee, known as “2+2” security talks. File | Photo Credit: AP Japanese and U.S. defence chiefs and top diplomats will meet in Tokyo on July 28 for talks aimed…
Newly elected British Indian Labour MP Jeevun Sandher. | Photo Credit: PTI Jeevun Sandher, one of Britain’s newest members of Parliament elected in the Labour Party’s landslide general election victory earlier this month, is determined to restore trust in politics and strengthen his party’s connection with India and its diaspora communities. The British Sikh first-time…
Lazer light display in Eiffel tower during the inaugural ceremony of Paris Olympic in Paris on Friday 26 July 2024. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar The Polish state broadcaster suspended a television journalist who, during the Olympic Games opening ceremony, reacted to a performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine” by saying it was a “vision…
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. | Photo Credit: AP Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beijing on July 27, Chinese state media said, in her first visit to the country since she took office nearly two years ago. During the five-day trip, she is due to meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang,…
Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visits the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War in Pyongyang, North Korea, July 26, 2024. | Photo…
Paris: India’s Harmanpreet Singh celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal from a penalty stroke against New Zealand during the Pool B hockey match between India and New Zealand, at the Summer Olympics 2024, in Paris, Saturday, July 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Paris Olympics 2024 Day 1 highlights The Paris 2024 Olympics kicked…
Supporters of the Pakistani religious group “Jamaat-e-Islami” sit during a protest in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Saturday, July 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Saturday vowed to continue its protest in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi as the party’s sit-in entered the second day to press the…
