Trump, Obama share title of year’s ‘most admired man’ in annual poll
Print 🖨 PDF 📄CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) – The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government on Monday to join Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday. Photos showed interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi shaking…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Experts say India concerned about expansion and any overt anti-west turn as leaders fly into South Africa Leaders from developing countries representing almost half the world’s population including China and Russia are to meet in South Africa for a key summit aimed at reinforcing their alliance as a counterweight to the west….
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Santiago Peña of the Colorado party is elected, defeating Efraín Alegre who wanted to switch diplomatic recognition to China Paraguay’s ruling party candidate, Santiago Peña, 44, has scored a big win in the presidential election, tightening the conservative Colorado party’s political grip and defusing fears that diplomatic ties with Taiwan might have…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄The recent rabid, full-on attack on Elon Musk’s X by the European Commission represents a new chapter in Brussels’ attempts to purge the public square of inconvenient ideas. The Berlaymont has imposed a €120 million fine on X for, essentially, refusing to apply EU-mandated censorship under the Digital Services Act. Brussels’ rising…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government and Sberbank, Moscow’s largest state-owned bank, to collaborate with China on developing AI technology in what is likely an effort to challenge the U.S., according to Reuters. In instructions on the Kremlin’s website published on Wednesday, Putin wrote that the entities should “ensure further…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄 The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed the facilities where the water will be treated and diluted with…