MELBOURNE, Feb 11 (Reuters/BBC): Climate change, Covid and China's "coercion" in the Indo-Pacific top the agenda as foreign ministers of the Quad grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States meet in Melbourne on Friday, with talks also covering an escalating crisis between the West and Russia over Ukraine.US...
Read moreKolkata: Muslim students display placards during a protest against the recent hijab ban in few colleges of Karnataka state, at Aliah University in Kolkata, India recently — Reuters
Read moreMOSCOW, Feb 11 (AFP): Russia on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take a Kremlin-performed Covid test.The leaders sat at opposite ends of an unusually long table in the Kremlin on...
Read moreTEHRAN, Feb 11 (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran "never has hope" in nuclear talks in Vienna about reviving a big power nuclear agreement that the United States quitIranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday that Iran "never has hope" in nuclear talks in Vienna about reviving a big...
Read moreOver the past three years, SpaceX has deployed thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of its business to beam high-speed internet service from space. But the company's latest deployment of 49 new satellites after a Feb 3 launch did not go as planned, reports The New York Times.As...
Read moreMEERUT, Feb 11 (AFP): Almost all the 23 people believed to have died when police cracked down on a wave of protests in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh little more than two years ago were reportedly Muslims.Now, many members of the major religious minority fear more repression if Yogi...
Read moreJUBA, Feb 11 (AFP): South Sudan risks a return to war, the United Nations warned Friday, with outbreaks of interethnic violence and political infighting threatening to undo even the limited progress made in implementing its lumbering peace process.The world's newest nation has suffered from chronic instability since independence in 2011,...
Read moreGENEVA, Feb 11 (AFP): A raging measles outbreak in Afghanistan infected tens of thousands and killed more than 150 people last month alone, the World Health Organization said Friday, warning of more deaths.The UN health agency said the outbreak was particularly concerning since Afghanistan is facing massive food insecurity and...
Read moreCyclone death toll jumps to 111 in MadagascarMADAGASCAR, Feb 11: At least 111 people in Madagascar are now known to have died since Cyclone Batsirai hit the Indian Ocean island nearly a week ago. Many homes simply crumpled in the ferocious winds, leaving around 30,000 people living in emergency shelters,...
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