The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has decided to march on Islamabad beginning March 26. The announcement came after a meeting of the Pakistan Democratic Movement in Islamabad. Caravans from across the country will leave for Islamabad on March 26, Fazl told reporters. He also announced that the 11-party alliance will not compete against each other […]
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi strongly criticized the opposition; in Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly for not allowing debate on the 26th constitutional amendment bill; seeking open balloting in the Senate elections to progress forward. Recently, The government had presented the bill in the lower house yesterday amidst a ruckus created by the opposition […]
Iran is ready for a new nuclear agreement with the US — but the clock is ticking, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, Zarif said the Biden administration has a “limited window of opportunity” to re-enter the 2015 nuclear agreement. “The time for the […]
Twitter has restored dozens of Indian accounts that were earlier blocked in response to legal notice by the government, citing objections based on public order. The accounts were all linked to continuing farmers’ protests against a series of agricultural reform laws. They included farmers’ leaders, activists, and a news magazine. The protests are now in […]
US President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar following a coup by the country’s military leaders and called for a concerted international response to push them into relinquishing power. Biden condemned the military’s takeover from the civilian-led government on Monday and its detention of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu […]
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi; who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”; handing […]
Former US President Donald Trump hired two new lawyers to head his defense team for his historic second impeachment trial set to begin next week. Trump’s announcement on Sunday follows reports he abruptly parted ways with several of his impeachment lawyers. Lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor will head the defence effort in the trial […]
Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short an important ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported on Saturday, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. Vietnam, a country of some 98 million people that has so far been highly successful in combatting the virus; has recorded 180 new […]
An Indian state blocked mobile internet across most of its districts on Friday, following clashes between protesting Indian farmers and groups of men shouting anti-farmer and pro-police slogans. Mobile internet in 15 of 22 districts in Haryana state bordering the capital New Delhi will be unavailable until 1700 local time on Saturday, according to a […]
