WASHINGTON DC: US President Joe Biden has said that he “hopes” that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping attends the G20 Summit in India this month.
This comes amid speculations that President Xi could skip the G20 Summit in New Delhi and instead nominate Chinese Premier Li Qiang to attend the...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden's two-year-old German Shepherd named Commander bit another US Secret Service agent at the White House on Monday morning.
This marks the 11th time the dog has bitten a guard at the White House or the Biden family home, CNN reported.
“Yesterday around 8 pm, a Secret...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and other Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Plus oil producers have announced further output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day.Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital and main financial hub said it would cut output by 500,000 barrels per day, or BDP, from May until...
NEW DELHI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who arrives for a two-day official visit in India on Thursday, is expected to meet and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday.This is the first trip of Lavrov to India since Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine last...
THIMPHU: People in Bhutan celebrate the birth of a royal princess. Celebrations started after King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his wife Queen Jetsun Puma were blessed with a daughter, the couple's third child and first daughter, The Bhutan Live reported.
Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering and Laytshog Lopon Sangay...
MINSK: Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has reached Belarus, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, reported CNN.
According to Belarusian state media, Lukashenko in his address on Tuesday said that he had warned Prigozhin that if he continued his march into the Russian capital, his soldiers would be obliterated. He reportedly...
NEW DELHI: IMF’s Chief Economist and Director, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, has said restrictions imposed by India on exports of certain varieties of rice are likely to exacerbate volatility on food prices in the rest of the world.
“And they (the ban on rice exports) can also lead to retaliatory measures. So,...
TOKYO: Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea on Thursday, amid concern among local fishermen and some neighbouring countries regarding its impact on the environment, Kyodo News reported.
Earlier in the week, the Japanese government had announced that it...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will arrive in New Delhi on Friday and is scheduled to hold a Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House informed.
Beginning Friday, Biden has a packed schedule for three days. After he departs from the US, he will arrive in Ramstein,Germany on Friday for...
NEW YORK: Prominent American senators and Congressmen have said they are "excited" and "eager" to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US, and look forward to him addressing a Joint Meeting of Congress on Thursday.
In a series of video messages posted on Twitter, the lawmakers said that the...