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 […]
Russia continued with unrelenting attacks on the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and also shelled the southern city of Kherson where two people died in the attack. Bakhmut is a pivotal capture for Russia in its advance through eastern Ukraine. Heavy fighting gripped all parts of the eastern front, said Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar on Telegram, adding […]
On April 12 (local time), billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk shared a screenshot sent by a business reporter at NPR Bobby Allyn where he sought Musk’s remarks on the announcement made by the media house that it would be quitting Twitter. The decision was taken after Twitter labeled NPR as ‘Government-funded Media’. Since the label appeared, NPR has objected […]
The US President Joe Biden on Wednesday began a nostalgia-filled tour of the Republic of Ireland, jetting in from Northern Ireland where he pushed for an end to political paralysis in the British province.Biden emerged from Air Force One at Dublin airport to driving wind and rain, and was greeted by the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar and a […]
Hours after concluding its three-day military drills on the Taiwan Straits, the Chinese military posted a simulation video showing how it could launch a full-scale attack against the self-ruled nation if war ever breaks out. The clip was reposted on Twitter by state-run outlet Global Times on Sunday, after the military’s Eastern Theatre Command shared the animated video on its […]
Vladimir Putin: The moment occurred at the Grand Kremlin Palace during a ceremony to present diplomatic credentials to 17 newly-appointed foreign ambassadors. Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen experiencing an awkward moment during his speech when he appeared to pause while speaking for applause but the audience did not react to the speech at all. The moment occurred at the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron urged China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday to reason with Russia and help bring an end to the war in Ukraine as the two held the first of a series of high-level meetings in Beijing. “The Russian aggression in Ukraine has dealt a blow to (international) stability,” Macron told Xi, standing alongside the Chinese president outside the […]
Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over the Myanmar military’s dissolution of the country’s former ruling party, warning the move could bring further instability to the violence-wracked country. The statements of concern on Wednesday came a day after the Myanmar military disbanded Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) and 39 other […]
