Singapore on Wednesday hanged a prisoner convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international calls for the city-state to abolish capital punishment.The execution took place despite a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office for Singapore to “urgently reconsider” the hanging and calls by British tycoon Richard Branson to halt it. Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stopped a live television interview to which he later returned saying that he had developed a stomach bug and is apologetic for the interruption. The 69-year-old leader gave three campaign speeches ahead of the parliamentary and presidential election set to take place on May 14. After these, he appeared live for a joint interview with […]
Influential Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna has said that Indians now see China as their greatest military threat and not Pakistan, and emphasised the need to have constructive re-balancing with Beijing. Relations between China and India have virtually frozen ever since the eastern Ladakh military standoff between the two countries in May 2020. The two countries have held 17 rounds of […]
Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu will be on a two-day visit to India for the Defence Ministers’ track of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held on April 27-28. During his maiden visit to India, Li is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, ABP Live has learnt. Li, who has been sanctioned by […]
Over 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 others have been injured in the fighting in Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said, “Four hundred and thirteen people have died and 3,551 people have been injured … that we know of.” Citing Sudanese health ministry figures, the WHO spokeswoman said 20 health facilities had […]
S Jaishankar met Guterres and also discussed a range of issues, including India’s presidency of the G20 and the Ukraine conflict. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday discussed the worsening situation in Sudan with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and said the focus is really on how to get the diplomatic processes to yield the desired result of a workable, […]
Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang has told his counterparts from Palestine and Israel that China is ready to broker peace talks between them in Beijing’s latest move to emerge as a regional mediator following its role in helping Iran and Saudi Arabia reestablish ties after several years. Qin held separate phone calls with Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki, and his […]
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin had visited two frontline regions in Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to brand it a tour of the scenes of Russian “crimes”. Moscow portrayed the trip as a marker of its control in occupied Ukraine, but Russia does not fully hold those areas despite claiming them after a widely-condemned annexation. Mr. Putin’s visit […]
Protesters opposing French President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64 from its current 62 recently targetted the headquarters of luxury conglomerate LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton). The group is led by Bernard Arnault — the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, he and his family are worth more than $240 billion. The incident […]
