PM Modi met Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at COP28 Summit in Dubai to discuss bilateral partnership and the well-being of Indian community in Qatar. Eight Indian Navy personnel were given death sentences by a court in Qatar and India has filed an appeal. PM Modi also addressed four sessions at the UN climate change conference and held bilateral meetings.
Nations ranging from US to Japan call for tripling of world nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to achieve net-zero emissions. Declaration endorsed by 20+ countries cites nuclear energy's "key role" in carbon neutrality. US envoy John Kerry: "Can't get to net zero 2050 without some nuclear." Environmental groups concerned about safety, waste disposal.
Philippine troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery fire, killed 11 suspected Islamic militants near a hinterland village in the country’s south, authorities said Saturday, in one of the military’s bloodiest anti-insurgency offensives this year.
The U.S. is expanding its high-tech military cooperation with Australia and the United Kingdom as part of a broader effort to counter China’s rapidly growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin met with defence chiefs from Australia and the United Kingdom at the U.S. military’s defence technology hub in Silicon Valley on December 1 to forge a new agreement to increase technology cooperation and information sharing.
Judge rejects Trump's bid to derail Wash. election interference case; ruling says former President is "not above the law" and can be subject to criminal prosecution. Trump's lawyers argue no other former President has been criminally prosecuted, but Judge Chutkan says "so too are the allegations that a President committed the crimes with which Defendant is charged." Trump faces four criminal cases, including one in Wash. for alleged election interference.
Supreme Court of Russia rules LGBT activists as extremists, leading to arrests & prosecutions. U.N. Human Rights Office criticizes ruling, calling for repeal. LGBT community in Russia faces fear of arrest & prosecution due to 2013 law criminalizing "propaganda" of non-traditional sexual orientations.
Ye Htut is the latest to be convicted of sedition and incitement for Facebook posts. Ex-Myanmar Army officer Ye Htut convicted of sedition and incitement, sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was accused of making posts on Facebook critical of the military rulers, and was charged with sedition and incitement, punishable by up to 7 and 3 years respectively. 4,204 civilians have died in the military gov't crackdown, 25,474 arrested.
She is a former editor of a business magazine and a former senior correspondent with a leading Indian daily)UAE's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan has opened humanitarian corridors, airlifting 1,000 injured Gazan children and 1,000 cancer patients, and pledging funds of US$ 20 million. He also ordered the establishment of an integrated field hospital and three desalination plants in Gaza. The UAE, along with other Arab nations, has been vocal about the rights of civilians in the war zone, and has condemned the Hamas attack. It has also appealed to the international community to revive the peace process and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
She is a former editor of a business magazine and a former senior correspondent with a leading Indian daily)UAE's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan has opened humanitarian corridors, airlifting 1,000 injured Gazan children and 1,000 cancer patients, and pledging funds of US$ 20 million. He also ordered the establishment of an integrated field hospital and three desalination plants in Gaza. The UAE, along with other Arab nations, has been vocal about the rights of civilians in the war zone, and has condemned the Hamas attack. It has also appealed to the international community to revive the peace process and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.