Oil Prices Hikes As Hamas-Israel Attacks Fuel Supply Fears
Oil prices rallied while the dollar and yen advanced Monday after Hamas launched a shock attack on Israel at the weekend, sparking fresh concerns about tensions in the Middle East. The crisis fanned concerns about supplies of crude from the region at a time when supply worries are already high owing to Saudi Arabia and Russia’s output cuts. It has also...
President Putin Congratulates Lula da Silva On Brazil’s Presidential Election Victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, congratulating him on winning Brazil’s presidential election, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. "Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on winning the presidential election. The vote’s results confirm your high political authority. I expect that our joint efforts will ensure further development of constructive Russia-Brazil cooperation...
Rwanda Genocide Suspect Unfit To Stand Trial, UN Court Rules
An 88-year-old man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a UN court has ruled. Félicien Kabuga's lawyers had argued that he suffered from dementia. He was arrested in Paris in 2020 after evading capture for 26 years, reportedly moving around East Africa. He is alleged to have financed ethnic Hutu militias who...
Kamala Harris Announces Running Mate
Kamala Harris names her running mate as she prepares for a tour of US battleground states aimed at wooing support that can power her to victory. All paths to the White House run through a handful of swing states, and Harris will kick off her five-day run Tuesday in the largest — Pennsylvania — as she builds momentum for her...
UN Security Council to Meet Thursday Over Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine at 3 p.m. ET today. The meeting was requested by the United States, Albania, United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Norway, according to a tweet from Norway's UN Mission in New York. The UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency and the World Health Organization will...
Diplomat Says Russia Ready To Return To Talks When Ukraine Expresses Readiness
Russia will give a positive response as soon as Ukraine expresses willingness to return to the negotiating table, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told reporters on Thursday. "The negotiation process was not interrupted by us. It was pu...
Putin Vows Response To NATO Expansion In Finland And Sweden
Moscow will take measures in response to the expansion of NATO’s military infrastructure to the territory of Finland and Sweden, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "The expansion of military infrastructure to that territory will undou...
Nigeria, India, Israel are Trump’s strongholds – Survey
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre has listed Nigeria as one of the strongholds of United States President, Donald Trump. This is as the survey found that support for President Trump remains largely negative around the world. The Centre discovered that across the 33 countries surveyed a median of 64 per cent said they do not have confidence in...
U.S. Slaps Sanctions On North Korea Over Ballistic Missile Tests
The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed its first sanctions over North Korea's weapons programs following a series of North Korean missile launches, including two since last week. The sanctions targeted six North Koreans, one Russian and a Russian firm Washington said were responsible for procuring goods for the programs from Russia and China. The U.S. Treasury said the steps aimed both...
Man In Shock After DNA Test Revealed That His Newborn Twins Have TWO Different Fathers
A Chinese man is left stunned after finding out that his twin babies have two fathers. The parent, who remains unidentified, made the shocking discovery after taking the newborns to undergo a DNA test as part of the standard procedure to register their births in China, a DNA analyst told reporters. Also Read: More Rumors Claim North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Is...
