Brazil's Bolsonaro doesn't show up to testify after being subpoenaed by SC over leaked documents

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro did not show up to testify on Friday, after a Supreme Court Justice subpoenaed him and ordered federal police to question him in an investigation about leaked documents.
28 January 2022

‘We don’t want wars’

Russia yesterday sent its strongest signal so far that it is willing to engage with US security proposals and reiterated that it does not want war over Ukraine.
28 January 2022

West ignored Russia’s security concerns: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that the West had ignored Moscow’s security concerns over Nato expansion and Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
28 January 2022

US slams Russia’s ‘destablising role’

Russia selling S-400 missile defense system to India “shines a spotlight on the destabilising role” that Moscow is playing in the region and potentially beyond as well, the United States has said.
28 January 2022

First Black woman to US top court!

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans by the end of February to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a historic first that he called “long overdue.
28 January 2022

40pc in Tigray lack adequate food: WFP

Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region do not have adequate food after 15 months of conflict, according to an assessment released yesterday by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
28 January 2022

Cops ‘not delaying’ probe into UK PM

London police yesterday denied delaying a long-awaited government report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street that have put Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s future in jeopardy.
28 January 2022

Pentagon chief orders reforms

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered Pentagon officials Thursday to undertake reforms to reduce the number of civilian deaths from military strikes after multiple unjustified fatal incidents.
28 January 2022

Russia says does not want war over Ukraine

Russia on Friday sent its strongest signal so far that it is willing to engage with US security proposals and reiterated that it does not want war over Ukraine.
28 January 2022

Subvariant can be more contagious

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which is dominant in Denmark, appears more contagious than the more common BA.1 sub-lineage, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a national address.
27 January 2022

N Korea fires 2 missiles

North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles yesterday, Seoul said, its sixth weapons test this month.  Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected two suspected short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Hamhung city area towards the East Sea from around 8:00 am. North Korea has not tested
27 January 2022

US reply to Russia’s security concerns: Nato’s door open for Ukraine

Russia yesterday said that the United States was failing to address its main security concerns over Ukraine but left the door open to further talks to ease tensions.
27 January 2022

4 Bangladeshi expats arrested in KSA for ‘insulting Saudi flag’

Law enforcers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said they have arrested four Bangladeshi expatriates from Jeddah over suspicion that they had insulted the country’s national flag, reports Gulf News.
27 January 2022

US economy saw recovery from recession to grow 5.7% in 2021

The US economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020′s brief but devastating coronavirus recession.
27 January 2022

5 killed as Ukraine's National Guardsman opens fire on fellow soldiers, civilians

A member of Ukraine’s National Guard on Thursday opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing five people and wounding five more, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said. The serviceman was detained by police but his motives remain unclear.
27 January 2022

Playboy says it ‘strongly supports’ women accusing founder Hugh Hefner of ‘abhorrent actions’

Playboy has said it “strongly supports” women who have recently come forward with allegations against Hugh Hefner, the company’s late founder, of “abhorrent actions” including coercing and drugging women into sex at the Playboy Mansion and at nightclubs, BBC reports.
27 January 2022

US Capitol rioter gets 44 months' jail for assaulting police

A US judge on Thursday imposed a 44-month prison sentence on a man who pleaded guilty to a felony charge after throwing objects at police during last year's attack on the US Capitol and boasting about his actions on social media.
27 January 2022

UK govt says booster rollout reduced Omicron risks, lifts restrictions

Most coronavirus restrictions including mandatory face masks were lifted in England on Thursday, after Britain’s government said its vaccine booster rollout successfully reduced serious illness and COVID-19 hospitalizations.
27 January 2022

Syria Kurds retake prison, ending six-day IS attack

Kurdish forces yesterday retook full control of a prison in northeast Syria where Islamic State group jihadists had been holed up since attacking it six days earlier.
26 January 2022

39 missing after boat capsizes in Florida

The US Coast Guard has launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling
26 January 2022