Category: Rest of World News
Heavy rains return to southern Brazil, flooding even higher ground in Porto Alegre
PORTO ALEGRE: Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil’s southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas that had previously been…
Putin arrives in Belarus for a two-day visit with a key ally
NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, arrived in Belarus for a two-day visit. He was received by his Belgian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko…
German police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Berlin university
BERLIN: German police cleared about 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a Berlin university faculty on Thursday, ending one of a wave of student-led protests across Europe…
Abortion pills may become controlled substances in Louisiana
NEW DELHI: The Louisiana House, with a majority of 64 to 29, has passed a bill that would classify the drugs used in medication abortions…
New York City is beginning to evict some people in migrant shelters under stricter rules
NEW YORK: New York City stepped up its efforts to push migrants out of its overwhelmed shelters Wednesday as it began enforcing a new rule…
‘Germany may draft teens in army as Putin readies nuclear forces’
NEW DELHI: Germany is actively contemplating the reintroduction of compulsory military service for all 18-year-olds as it faces increasing geopolitical pressures from an assertive Russia,…
Thai ex-PM freed on parole after 15 yrs in exile, 6 months of detention
BANGKOK: Thailand‘s billionaire former PM Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday after six months in detention, his first day of freedom in his…
May annex more Ukrainian regions: Medvedev
Moscow: Russia‘s former leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested Saturday that Moscow may annex more regions of Ukraine, as he marked one year since the Kremlin claimed…
Azerbaijan president avenges his father by taking Karabakh
Early on September 19, Azerbaijan‘s president set in motion a lightning-fast military plan months in the making that would redraw the geopolitical map and avenge…
Removed Chinese barrier at shoal in South China Sea: Manila
MANILA: The Philippines said on Monday it executed a “special operation” to remove a floating barrier installed by China at a prime fishing patch in…