China’s Two sessions | What is it and key highlights of this year’s event

China’s Two sessions | What is it and key highlights of this year’s event

The story so far: China held its annual parliamentary meetings known as ‘Two Sessions’ last week from March 4 to 11 to vote on legislations pre-approved by its ruling party, the Communist Party of China (CPC). The ‘Two Sessions’ event, which lasted for a week and comprised Beijing’s top political advisory body Chinese People’s Political … Read more

UN chief ‘alarmed’ by reports civilians killed in Myanmar air strikes

UN chief ‘alarmed’ by reports civilians killed in Myanmar air strikes

People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State in November 2023. File. | Photo Credit: AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said he is “alarmed” by reports of ongoing Myanmar military air strikes on … Read more

Beijing steps up military pressure on Taiwan after U.S., China announce talks

Beijing steps up military pressure on Taiwan after U.S., China announce talks

File picture of a J-15 Chinese fighter jet aboard the Shandong aircraft carrier during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) | Photo Credit: AP China sent more than 30 warplanes and a group of navy ships toward Taiwan, … Read more

Possible Indian interference in Canadian elections under investigation

Possible Indian interference in Canadian elections under investigation

File picture of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau | Photo Credit: AP An independent commission probing alleged foreign interference in Canada asked the Justin Trudeau government on Wednesday to share information about possible meddling in elections by India, a development that could aggravate already-tense Ottawa-New Delhi relations. The commission was set up by Prime Minister … Read more

'Come together and straighten out world': Donald Trump after winning Iowa caucus

'Come together and straighten out world': Donald Trump after winning Iowa caucus

After winning the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump told his supporters that it would be good if everybody could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and the death and destruction that one is witnessing. In his speech soon after his victory in the Iowa caucuses, the former US president called … Read more

We may be small, but won’t be bullied: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu on return from China 

We may be small, but won’t be bullied: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu on return from China 

Maldives’ President Mohamed Muizzu (2nd L), his wife Sajidha Mohamed (L), Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and his wife Peng Liyuan posing for photos during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. | Photo Credit: AFP The Maldives may be a small island nation, but that does not allow … Read more

Kim Jong-un’s sister denies North Korea fired rounds near border

Kim Jong-un’s sister denies North Korea fired rounds near border

Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed that her country’s military had detonated explosives simulating the sound of gunfire 60 times and “watched the reaction” of the South Korean forces. File | Photo Credit: AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister on January 7 denied Seoul’s claims that Pyongyang had … Read more

Actor Christian Oliver, his 2 daughters killed in plane crash in the Caribbean

Actor Christian Oliver, his 2 daughters killed in plane crash in the Caribbean

German-born Hollywood actor Christian Oliver was killed along with his two young daughters as their small plane plummeted into the Caribbean Sea moments after takeoff, local police said January 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the … Read more

U.S. says it downs many drones, missiles fired by Huthis over Red Sea

U.S. says it downs many drones, missiles fired by Huthis over Red Sea

U.S. military forces shot down more than a dozen attack drones and several missiles fired by Yemen-based Huthi rebels at shipping in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. “There was no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries,” the Pentagon’s Central Command said in a social media post, describing a barrage … Read more

'Harrowing': WHO decries deadly strike on Gaza refugee camp

'Harrowing': WHO decries deadly strike on Gaza refugee camp

Palestinians pull a body out of the rubble of the Al Nawasrah family building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP World Health Organization staff visited Monday a Gaza hospital receiving casualties from deadly strikes on a refugee camp, hearing distressing stories of entire families killed … Read more