Reuters :Hundreds of protesters defied a ban on Saturday to march in central Paris against police violence, a week after riots sparked by the killing of a teenager in a Parisian suburb. Police dispersed the crowd from Paris’s huge Place de la Republique, sending several hundred people towards the wide […]
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is against the use of cluster munitions that Washington has promised to give Ukraine for its counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, Ottawa said on Saturday, reiterating a commitment to the Oslo agreement that bans the controversial weapon. The U.S. said on Friday that it would supply […]
GENEVA -AFP)/UNS– The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session to address the burning of the Quran following an incident in Stockholm that sparked global outrage, a spokesman said Tuesday. A Quran was burnt outside the Swedish capital’s main mosque on Wednesday, triggering a diplomatic backlash across the […]
JAMES M. DORSEY The sigh of relief in a swath of land stretching from China to Africa’s Atlantic coast was audible when Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch who heads the Wagner Group, a state-funded private military company, called off his mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s military and security establishment. So […]
WASHINGTON-UNS: Over $200 billion from the US government’s Covid-19 relief programmes were potentially stolen, a federal watchdog said on Tuesday, adding that the US Small Business Administration (SBA) had weakened its controls in a rush to disburse the funds. At least 17 per cent of all funds related to the […]
JAMES M. DORSEY A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost.That is if the United States realizes that Middle Easterners judge the US on glaring inconsistencies in its domestic and foreign policies rather than on its cultural, technological, and […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation’s 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new publicity campaign for President Joe Biden’s economic policies. The funding under the Broadband Equity Access and […]
Mecca (AFP) – Vast crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims walked solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, on Sunday as the biggest Hajj pilgrimage in several years began in the heat of the Saudi summer. Islam’s holiest site is expected to host more than two […]
NEW DELHI -UNS: Amazon and Google are the latest companies to announce massive investment plans in India amid US President Joe Biden’s efforts to “send a message to China” by cementing India’s position as a close ally. Amazon said on Friday it will take its investments in India to $26 […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The office of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday that he had brokered a deal with mutinous Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who had agreed to de-escalate the situation. The announcement, carried on the official Telegram channel of the Belarusian presidency, said Prigozhin had agreed to […]
