MARCH 28, 2021
Illustration shows a cross section of the Suez Canal.
SUEZ, EGYPT — Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt's Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free.
The massive...
MARCH 27, 2021
Asserting that the disinvestment target of Rs 1.75 lakh crore for 2021-22 was "imminently achievable", Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian on Saturday said the proposed initial public offering (IPO) by LIC itself could garner Rs 1 lakh crore for the government.
He also said retail inflation targeting by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has helped...
MARCH 25, 2021
US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021. - Evan Vucci/AP
President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency Thursday -- a tradition that came later than in previous presidencies and looked dramatically different because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He waited until his...
MARCH 24, 2021
The sky over the former Yugoslav capital Belgrade, now the capital of Serbia, is illuminated red as smoke rises from a refinery at the industrial complex in the suburb of Pancevo after a NATO attack, early April 18, 1999. The intervention, which began on March 24, targeted Yugoslav security forces accused of conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign...
MARCH 24, 2021
North Korea has launched a pair of missiles for the second time in a week.
The launches were confirmed to ABC News by a United States official and South Korean joint chiefs of staff. The U.S. official said two ballistic missiles were fired into the Sea of Japan.
"North Korea this morning fired two unidentified projectiles into the East...
MARCH 24, 2021
US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks on the "For the People Act," which would expand access to voting and other voting reforms, at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2021. - J. Scott Applewhite/AP
US Senate Democrats Wednesday began their march forward on a sweeping voting rights bill, convening a hearing on their "top priority" legislation despite...
MARCH 23, 2021
The two most powerful economic authorities in America told lawmakers that although the US economy is on the mend thanks to several rounds of stimulus, there's more work to be done.
Janet Yellen, the current Treasury secretary, and Jerome Powell, who succeeded Yellen as Federal Reserve chair during the Trump administration, each stressed in prepared remarks that the...
MARCH 22, 2021
The Tatopani crossing in the east, similarly, opened up in October 2020 after several months of shutdown, but here, too, traders reported similar problems as in Rasuwa.
The closure of the borders—despite the damage wrought by the pandemic and because of China’s insistence that Nepal had not established adequate screening procedures—once again highlighted the unequal nature of bilateral...
MARCH 21, 2021
US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he was "deeply disappointed" after Turkey's decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention, the binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women
"This is a disheartening step backward for the international movement to end violence against women globally," Biden said in a White House statement, adding that the "sudden and...
MARCH 21, 2021
NEW DELHI: As the UNHRC prepares for a vote on Tuesday on a resolution meant to hold Sri Lankan authorities accountable for human rights violations, the Indian government is mulling whether to support or oppose the resolution.
Despite repeated calls for support from the island nation, including a phone call to PM Narendra Modi by Sri Lankan president...
