Tokyo: The Japanese government has declared an emergency because of the increasing spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the emergency would be imposed only in Tokyo and six other provinces in Japan. The Prime Minister added that this emergency would prevail for a month. Japan also made an announcement […]
Beijing: – Eruption of public discontent is rarely seen in China. However, it has been reported that the citizens from the Hubei province launched attacks on the police after the lockdown was lifted. China had imposed a lockdown in the Hubei province to contain the Coronavirus epidemic. Therefore, the citizens want to travel to other […]
Kabul: – Taliban has refused to hold any talks with the Ashraf Ghani government in Afghanistan. Taliban has accused that the Ashraf Ghani government is illegal. Therefore, the efforts to bring the Taliban and the Afghan government to a negotiating table have suffered a major jolt. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had formed a delegation, on […]
Vienna: The agreement between OPEC, the main organisation of the oil-producing countries, and Russia, regarding oil production cut, has fallen through. This caused the international oil rates to tumble and they slid to below $47 per barrel level. A leading analyst and advisory company, from the oil sector, warned that if OPEC members do not […]
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that ‘Russia has developed a unique missile. Russia will not initiate a war against any country using this missile. But in the time to come, Russia will create a situation that no other country in the world will even dare to think of starting a war with Russia.’ […]
Tokyo: Japan, who is taking rapid steps to increase its military might, has initiated the development of an anti-aircraft carrier missile. Japan will be equipped with this super-advanced missile in the next few years. A leading Japanese newspaper reported this by quoting sources in the Japanese defence ministry. The Chinese naval movements are on the […]
Geneva: Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO), expressed concerns that ‘Currently, the news of the Coronavirus, spreading around the globe, is in the limelight and we can see dangerously increasing numbers of deaths around the world. These are the signs that the epidemic is turning into a pandemic.’ The virus which […]
Omaha: US defence headquarters Pentagon, under the leadership of US Secretary for Defence Mark Esper, conducted an exercise, which included the launch of a nuclear strike against Russia. The United States has warned through the exercise that if Russia attacked the US allies in Europe, the United States would launch a nuclear attack against Russia, […]
Geneva/Ankara: The United Nations has warned that ‘The attacks by the Assad regime and Russia in the Idlib province need to be stopped immediately. Otherwise, there will be massive bloodshed in this ruthless violence.’ However, Russia has accused Turkey of being responsible for the crisis faced by the Syrian people. Turkey has lost a major […]
Moscow: System based on facial recognition technology has been activated in the Russian capital of Moscow and this is facing increasing resistance from the local citizens and the voluntary organisations. Nearly 200,000 CCTV cameras have been fit in capital Moscow and police and other security agencies are using them. Two months ago, Russia tested an […]