Elaine Pearson When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Sydney this week, there should be no empty clichés from Australia’s leaders simply hailing India as “the world’s largest democracy.” With that title comes responsibilities to live up to democratic values. Instead, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should focus
Kyiv, Ukraine: Residents of Ukraine's eastern hotspot of Bakhmut drop into a Kyiv support centre for medical care and clothing, weeping for their shattered town as Russia claims full control. Russia's Wagner mercenaries claim to have captured Bakhmut after months of intense attacks -- while Ukraine
Yangon: The United Nations launched on Tuesday an appeal for $333 million in emergency funding for 1.6 million people it said were affected after deadly Cyclone Mocha tore through Myanmar. Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometers per hour to Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh
Kyiv: Ukraine's foreign minister began a tour of African countries this week, stepping up wartime Kyiv's diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the "Global South" and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace. Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said his
Moscow: Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that Group of Seven nuclear "rhetoric" has the sole aim of exerting psychological, military and political pressure on Moscow and Beijing. In the first ever communiqué on nuclear disarmament issued at the G7 summit last week, the group called on
New Delhi: In the strategically significant area of Depsang plains in Ladakh, China’s People’s Liberation Army has demanded the creation of a 15-20km buffer zone or no patrol zone inside India-claimed lines as a precondition for disengagement, Kolkata-based The Telegraph reports, citing an official from
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch US weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts
Islamabad: : Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organization Mushaal Hussein Mullick lauded China for boycotting the meeting in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and welcomed the reports that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia were also likely to skip the G20 meeting. Speaking at a
Milan: Italy's data protection authority Garante plans to review other artificial intelligence platforms and hire AI experts, a top official said, as it ramps up scrutiny of the powerful technology after temporarily banning ChatGPT in March. Garante is among the most proactive of the 31 national
New Delhi: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed on Tuesday, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia and Uzbekistan. Any cough syrup must have a certificate of analysis