Musk met Iran’s UN ambassador, NYT says
NEW YORK: Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US president-elect Donald Trump, met Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world’s richest person and Ambassador […]
UN nuclear chief in Iran in search of ‘diplomatic solutions’
TEHRAN: International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Wednesday for discussions on Tehran’s nuclear programme, a week after Donald Trump’s election as the new US president. Grossi, who is the director general of the UN agency, was greeted on Wednesday evening at the airport by Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the […]
11 die in air strike on teashop in Myanmar’s north
BANGKOK: Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for a local ethnic armed group said. ADVERTISEMENT The attack, shortly before 3pm, comes as the junta battles widespread armed opposition to its 2021 […]
US climate action won’t end with Trump, COP29 told
• Climate finance is not charity, UN official asserts • US envoy says fight is bigger than one election • Over 51,000 people expected at Nov 11-22 conference BAKU: As COP29 talks opened on Monday, Washington’s top climate envoy sought to reassure the participating countries that Donald Trump’s re-election would not end US efforts to […]
Rahul Gandhi set to attend district development meeting, inaugurate project in Raebareli
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to attend the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) meeting in his parliamentary constituency on Tuesday. On way to Raebareli, the Lok Sabha MP paid obeisance at the Hanuman temple at Churwa. Soon after his arrival here, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha inaugurated the beautification […]
Focus on farming
To review the achievements under different schemes and developmental activities being carried out in the district, Director Horticulture Jammu recently conducted a two day extensive tour of district Poonch. Accompanied by Anil Chhibber, MCC, the Director was welcomed by Chief Horticulture Officer and other officers of the department. During the whirlwind tour, the Director visited […]
Trump takes election pitch to storied New York arena
Donald Trump rallies supporters Sunday at an iconic New York arena while Kamala Harris goes neighbourhood to neighbourhood in Philadelphia just over a week before America votes in an extraordinarily close White House race. Trump’s gathering at the nearly 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden is expected to draw a blitz of coverage in the Republican’s home […]
Nasa astronaut hospitalised on return from ISS after eight months
WASHINGTON: A Nasa astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station. The astronaut, who Nasa did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida’s coast aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule with three other […]
UN calls for urgent action to avoid catastrophic warming
PARIS: The United Nations on Thursday said nations have just months to supercharge their climate plans and called for massive global action to avoid devastating warming. The UN Environment Programme’s annual Emissions Gap report was released ahead of COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan and a looming deadline for countries to update and improve their carbon-cutting […]
US imposes curbs on Pakistani, Chinese and Emirati firms
WASHINGTON: The US has added more than two dozen entities to a trade blacklist on Monday over alleged support of weapons and drone development programmes in Pakistan and Iran, and other issues, including aiding Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. The 26 targets, mostly in Pakistan, China and the United Arab Emirates, were said to have […]