Day: January 3, 2020

The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss an uptick in violence in the embattled Syrian opposition stronghold of Idlib, diplomats told AFP.

Greece, Cyprus and Israel on signed an agreement for a huge pipeline project to ship gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe despite Turkey’s hostility to the deal.

Nearly 4,00,000 babies were born around the world on New Year’s Day with India recording the highest number of these births worldwide at 67,385, the UN children’s agency said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confronted by angry residents who cursed and insulted him Thursday as he visited a wildfire-ravaged corner of the country.

A Sri Lankan Air Force plane crashed in a mountainous area of Haputhale on Friday, killing four airmen, military officials said.

Counting of votes for the rural local body elections continued for the second consecutive day today with the AIADMK and the DMK witnessing a close contest between them. Though the opposition DMK was slightly ahead in the number of seats, the ruling AIADMK was not far behind.

General Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was killed in a precision US air strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump, the Pentagon announced on Friday, dramatically escalating tensions in the strategic Gulf region

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called on young scientists of India to ”Innovate, Patent, Produce and Prosper,” and said these four steps would lead our country towards faster development.

No one in the government has ever called the three detained former Chief Ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir “anti-national”, Home Minister Amit Shah has said, adding that a decision on their release will be taken by the administration of the union territory.