The Trump administration has said it won’t pay more than USD 60 million in dues it owes to the World Health Organisation and will use the money instead to pay down other contributions to the United Nations. The announcement on Wednesday came just a day after the White House announced the US would not participate […]

The challenges confronting the world due to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic have brought to the fore the inadequacies of the global governance structures, India’s former UN envoy Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin has said. His statement came as the governments across the world struggle to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak which has infected over 3.5 million people […]

The Congress on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must come forward and address the countrymen to enlighten them on the way ahead in dealing with the coronavirus and the economic situation. Asking when the lockdown will finally end, Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the PM must also layout the exit strategy from it […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim attended the […]

Estonia, the president of the United Nations Security Council for May, said it was a “shame” that the powerful UN body did not fulfill its responsibility in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak and slammed “stumbling blocks” in passing a resolution on the pandemic. “I think it is a shame that we have not been able to […]

New rumors about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he’s very ill. Or maybe he’s just recuperating in his luxury compound. As speculation about his health builds, an underlying question looms for professional spies, outside policymakers, academics and curious news-consumers alike. What do we really know about the […]

A top South Korean official said his country remains confident that there have been no unusual developments in North Korea, suggesting that rumors about the health of leader Kim Jong Un are untrue. Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul told a closed-door Seoul forum on Sunday that South Korea has enough intelligence to confidently say that there […]

Tattoo parlors and hair salons in Denmark. Beaches in Australia. Bookstores in Germany. Countries around the world that have seen coronavirus infections flatten out began easing their lockdowns Monday, while the US moved more cautiously and the debate took on an increasingly political edge. Over the past few days, US President Donald Trump openly encouraged […]

British and EU officials were scheduled to restart Brexit trade talks Monday after a break because of the coronavirus, which is making an end-of-year deal look even more unlikely. After a first round in early March negotiations were suspended for six weeks as officials focused on the deadly virus sweeping Europe. The June deadline set […]

Article 370 that confers special status to Jammu and Kashmir has been proposed to be removed said Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament this morning. As tension has been increasing in Jammu and Kashmir, Amit Shah proposed to remove Article 370 and also decided to bifurcate the state into two Union territories. As per announcement […]