“We have informed mediators in Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey that Hamas is ready for a ceasefire agreement and a serious deal to exchange prisoners,” the official told AFP, accusing Israel of obstructing an agreement. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon took effect on Wednesday after more than a year of fighting that has […]
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, said on Monday he would impose “an additional 10% tariff, above any additional tariffs” on imports from China until Beijing clamped down on trafficking of the chemical precursors used to make the deadly drug. The two superpowers are setting out their positions ahead of the former president’s return […]
“Since the intimation of the US DoJ (Department of Justice) indictment, the group has suffered a loss of nearly $55 billion in its market capitalization across its 11 listed companies,” it said in a statement. The November 20 bombshell indictment in New York accused billionaire industrialist founder Gautam Adani and multiple subordinates of deliberately misleading […]
Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who has criticized NATO and Bucharest’s support for Ukraine, led the first round of Romania’s presidential election, held Sunday, to face a little-known mayor in the second round early next month. “I can’t say that we are very familiar with the worldview of this candidate, as far it concerns relations with […]
Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar’s borderlands and are staffed by foreigners who are often trafficked and forced to work, swindling their compatriots in an industry analysts say is worth billions. The group from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malaysia, and Russia crossed into Thailand’s Tak province, according to the police chief in the city of Mae […]
Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, complained that in the weeks leading up to its presidential election in January Chinese balloon activity took place at an “unprecedented scale”. It described the incidents as part of a Chinese pressure campaign – so-called grey-zone warfare designed to exhaust a foe using irregular tactics without open […]
Uruguayans went to the polls for the second round of voting in what became a tight race between Orsi, of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) alliance, and Alvaro Delgado of the National Party, a member of outgoing President Luis Lacalle Pou’s center-right Republican Coalition. Orsi promised in a victory speech on Sunday evening to be […]
The group’s billionaire chairman, Gautam Adani, and seven other people were last week charged with agreeing to pay around $265 million in bribes to Indian government officials. The charges related to alleged payments to obtain contracts that could yield $2 billion of profit over 20 years as well as to develop India’s largest solar power […]
They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, according to sources familiar with Japan-US relations, Kyodo said late Sunday. A US Marine regiment that possesses the multiple-launch HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) would be deployed along Japan’s Nansei island chain stretching from Kyushu to Yonaguni near Taiwan, […]
Israel also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, where intensified bombardment over the last two weeks has coincided with signs of progress in U.S.-led ceasefire talks. Hezbollah, which has previously vowed to respond to attacks on Beirut by targeting Tel Aviv, said it had launched precision missiles at two military sites in Tel Aviv and nearby. […]
