[ad_1] Mexico has ended its diplomatic ties with the South American nation of Ecuador, following an unprecedented incident in the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito. The Ecuador police raided Mexico’s embassy on Friday (April 5), in a bid to arrest a former Vice President who had been granted asylum there. Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez…
[ad_1] Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Wednesday (April 3) threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. The statement came after Germany, earlier this year, proposed to enact stricter limits on the import of trophies from hunting animals. In an interview with German tabloid Bild, President Masisi said such a move by Germany — one of…
[ad_1] April 2 marks International Fact-checking Day, a global initiative that recognises the role of accurate information in an interconnected world. It was first commemorated by the IFCN (International Fact-checking Network) in 2016 to celebrate and highlight the important work of fact-checkers worldwide. Amidst the Lok Sabha polls in India, a range of threats abound…
[ad_1] Last week, Brussels hosted a first-of-its-kind Nuclear Energy Summit that was billed as the most high-profile international meeting on nuclear energy ever, boasting the attendance of representatives from 30 countries, including a few heads of state. This day-long meeting on March 21 was the latest in a series of efforts being made in the…
[ad_1] The Majeed Brigade of the separatist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on a complex outside Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar Port. Pakistan has said eight militants and two security personnel were killed in the attack; the BLA has, however, claimed to have killed 25 security personnel. The BLA is the…
[ad_1] Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation. That’s according to food security experts and aid groups, who are warning about the toll from hunger caused by the war…
[ad_1] Earlier this month, a World Bank Group report found that globally, women earn just 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. This difference has been cited in the past as an example of the “gender pay gap” – women earning less than men on average. Different figures have also been given over the…
[ad_1] US Army ships have sailed from Virginia with equipment to build a floating pier on the Gaza coast to deliver humanitarian aid to the enclave, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj Gen Pat Ryder said on March 12. “We expect the pier to be fully operational in approximately 60 days which will be able…
[ad_1] In a move that could lead to a ban on the social media app TikTok in the United States, the US House of Representatives passed a Bill on March 14. The Bill says that TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance must divest its stake from the app within six months, or the app would be…
[ad_1] The trust vote, the third won by Prachanda in a little over a year, took place after the Prime Minister broke his party’s alliance with the Nepali Congress led by Sher Bahadur Deuba, and forged a new alliance with K P Sharma Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Under Nepal’s constitution, the Prime…
