Bangkok: The United States has announced a new scheme to counter the ambitious Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The information was given by Wilber Ross, the US Secretary for Commerce during the meeting of the Indo-Pacific Business Forum held in Bangkok. The scheme envisages providing huge funding for important projects in the Indo-Pacific sector, over the next few years. […]
Washington: With the direct use of the phrase ‘Buyers Beware’, senior US officials have given clear advice to the countries buying weapons from Russia and China to start buying from the United States. While giving the advice at an event, R. Clarke Cooper, a senior official at the US State Department, even claimed that Russia and China were using the arms sale only to grow their influence. A few months ago, ‘Stockholm International […]
Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the social tensions in the Arabic world are becoming intensifying, in view of the increasing unemployment and the consistently declining growth rates and the discontent is rising in these countries. This warning by the IMF becomes significant against the background of the agitations going on in […]
Riyadh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed, ‘There is economic uncertainty because of the unbalanced multilateral trade. At this time, the global economy is dependent on the path chosen by the big developing economies like India and Saudi Arabia.’ Prime Minister Modi also said that the cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia has crossed the […]
Cairo/Aden: Since the last few days, Houthi rebels have been launching dreadful attacks on the border regions of Saudi Arabia. However, Saudi and Arab allies have killed 11 Houthi rebels in a retaliatory strike. Also, a new conflict between Saudi and Houthi rebels has ignited to assert control over the strategically important ‘Aden’ located in […]
Riyadh: Russian President Vladimir Putin embarked on a visit to the Middle East, given the developments of the additional US military deployment in Saudi Arabia as also the US military withdrawal from northern Syria. On Monday, President Putin visited Saudi Arabia. Both the countries informed that they discussed on Yemen, Syria, cooperation on oil and […]
Mexico City/Washington: The Mexican security agencies have stopped a major influx of thousands of immigrants, into the United States. This action was carried out in southern Mexico and the immigrants were from America, Africa and the Caribbean Islands. Mexico has been carrying out such action near the US border, since the last few months. But […]
London/Brussels: Narcotics worth nearly 130 million euros were seized in a joint operation conducted by 15 European countries, along with the United Kingdom. More than 400 people were arrested during the action which is said to be the biggest jolt delivered to the narcotics trade in Europe. This is the second major joint operation at […]
Washington/Beijing: There are indications of a new conflict igniting between the United States and China over the atrocities against the Uyghur people, in the Xinjiang province of China. After including 28 Chinese enterprises in the ‘Black List’, the United States has now raised the baton of Visa Ban. The US foreign department announced that all […]
Moscow: 10 bilateral agreements were signed during Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to Russia. These include agreements for trade, investment, marine products, science, electronics along with cooperation in the nuclear energy sector. The sources informed that over and above this, President Putin and President Duterte also held talks regarding bilateral security cooperation. This is the […]
