[ad_1] Damascus, Syria: Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday announced a new transitional government dominated by close allies and including one woman, replacing caretaker authorities in place since the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The announcement, initially scheduled for earlier this month, comes amid international calls for an inclusive Syrian transition following recent…
[ad_1] London: UK Conservative MP for Harrow East, Bob Blackman, on late Thursday said that he demanded that the UK government tenders an apology to India on the anniversary of the grim Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Speaking in the UK Parliament, Blackman highlighted the events of April 13, 1919, and said that thousands of innocent civilians…
[ad_1] Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a magazine critical of the government was sent a pig’s head and decapitated rats. Weekly magazine Tempo, a top Indonesian publication since the 1970s, has been critical of the policies of President Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general whom rights…
[ad_1] Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has got a new job in the government of his daughter Maryam Nawaz in Punjab province. From three-time former prime minister to patron-in-chief of the Lahore Authority for Heritage Revival (LAHR), Nawaz will now look after the restoration of scores of colonial-era buildings in Lahore. The…
[ad_1] Washington: From erasing the stories of Navajo “code talkers” on the Pentagon website to demolishing a “Black Lives Matter” mural in Washington, President Donald Trump’s assault on diversity across the United States government is dismantling decades of racial justice programs. Delivering on a campaign promise, the Republican billionaire made it one of his first…
[ad_1] Washington: U.S. Commerce department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on their government devices, according to a message seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter. “To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the new Chinese based AI DeepSeek is…
[ad_1] New Delhi: The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk, has deactivated over 2 lakh federal government credit cards to streamline spending. The move, announced a few days ago on X (formerly Twitter), follows a broader push to curtail administrative costs and overhaul government expenditure practices….
[ad_1] Washington: The United States averted a government shutdown with hours to spare Friday as lawmakers already reeling from President Donald Trump’s radical federal spending cuts voted to keep the lights on through September. Facing a midnight deadline to fund the government or allow it to start winding down, Democrats dropped plans for a blockade…
[ad_1] Berlin: Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz came a step closer Saturday towards forming a government which he has pledged will revive Europe’s top economy and its armed forces with massive new spending. The bold moves are part of his plan to rebuild Berlin’s standing in Europe, which Merz has said must respond to…
