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BENGALURU, Aug 21 (Reuters) – India’s space agency on Monday released images its spacecraft took of the far side of the moon as it headed for an attempted landing on the lunar south pole, just days after the failure of a Russian lander. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft had been in a…
The leaders of 24 countries will attend this month’s BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, a top Kremlin aide said Thursday. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will be among them, the department of international relations confirmed shortly after. Yury Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, told journalists that 24 countries will…
Loonie strengthened against greenback to trade as high as $1.3777 per U.S. dollar United States President Donald Trump said newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to visit the White House within the next week. “I think we’re going to have a great relationship. He called me up yesterday. He said ‘Let’s make a deal,’” Trump told reporters…
“We should not tie together things that are not connected to each other at all,” High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday amid a new crisis caused by back-to-back Hungarian vetoes. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the European Union has become effectively paralysed by two back-to-back Hungarian vetoes….
President Herzog called on the government to freeze the legislation on Monday morning • Smotrich and Ben-Gvir expected to attend counter protests. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday evening that he was temporarily freezing the bill that would alter the makeup of the Judicial Appointments Committee and was willing to give a “real opportunity…
A major London landmark will undergo a controversial revamp after a Muslim billionaire won his bid to build a place of prayer. A Muslim billionaire has won permission to turn a major London landmark into a mosque. Mega-rich Asif Aziz, 56, known as Mr West End, will take over the Trocadero in the centre of…