[ad_1] Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s U.N. ambassador accused the Palestinians on Wednesday of stabbing a knife into any chance for reconciliation by seeking an advisory opinion from the U.N.’s highest court on Israel’s decades-old occupation — and the … Read more
[ad_1] Former RBI chairman Raghuram Rajan. File | Photo Credit: File photo The collapse in the prices of digital assets over the past year will allow investors to focus on the “true value” of this new technology, the distributed ledger and the smart contracts that can be built on them, former Reserve Bank of India … Read more
[ad_1] A pair of sneakers sit trampled in the stands of Kanjuruhan Stadium following a deadly soccer match stampede in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. File. | Photo Credit: AP An Indonesian court began trial on January 16 against five men on charges of negligence leading to the deaths of 135 people after police fired tear … Read more
[ad_1] Daily Quiz | On women who made history in 2022 1 / 6 | Three countries that did not have a single women parliamentarian in the previous year broke the cycle and elected them in 2022. Name the three countries. Answer : Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Kuwait DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES … Read more
[ad_1] Daily Quiz | On women who made history in 2022 1 / 6 | Three countries that did not have a single women parliamentarian in the previous year broke the cycle and elected them in 2022. Name the three countries. Answer : Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Kuwait DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES … Read more
[ad_1] China’s state media played down the severity on January 3 of the COVID-19 wave surging over the country, with its scientists expected to give a briefing to the World Health Organization on the evolution of the virus later in the day. China’s abrupt U-turn on COVID controls on Dec. 7, as well as the … Read more
[ad_1] A police robot vehicle patrols near the crowd that has returned to a mall following the easing of pandemic restrictions in Beijing, on January 1. | Photo Credit: AP Australia and Canada have joined a growing list of countries requiring travellers from China to take a COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flight, as … Read more
[ad_1] Local residents carry their belongings as they leave their home ruined in the Saturday Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, on January 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in a series of drone attacks early on January 2 on Kyiv and the region surrounding it, officials said. … Read more
[ad_1] Representational file image of a Syrian Airlines airplane. | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport of Syria’s capital early on January 2, putting it out of service and killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the Syrian army said. The attack, the second in seven months to put … Read more
[ad_1] Firefighters and rescue workers gather at the site of Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet, where fire broke out, on December 29, 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP “A fire burning through a Cambodian hotel casino on the border with Thailand has killed at least 10 people,” local media reported. The website Cambodianess, which belongs … Read more