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January 19, 2026 9:49 PM
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday called a snap general election with a vow to suspend an 8% food levy for two years, echoing proposals by her rivals despite the potential strain on the country's already precarious finances. A consump...
January 19, 2026 9:47 PM
France was moving closer to a 2026 budget deal on Monday after the government presented a last-ditch proposal that made concessions to most political parties, senior Socialist lawmaker Boris Vallaud said, ahead of a cabinet meeting on Monday afternoo...
January 19, 2026 3:00 PM
External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar on Monday held talks with Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski in New Delhi, reviewing the expanding India–Poland Strategic Partnership and exchanging views on key regional and global devel...
January 19, 2026 1:58 PM
NASA is targeting Feb 6 for the launch of its Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a crewed journey around the Moon, marking humanity’s first return to lunar spaceflight since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The 10-day mi...
January 19, 2026 1:53 PM
The Election Commission of India (ECI) will host the inaugural India International Conference on Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) 2026 from January 21 to 23 at Bharat Mandapam in the national capital. Organised by the India International I...
January 19, 2026 1:33 PM
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo declared a 30-day nationwide state of siege on Sunday (January 18), after security forces freed dozens of prison guards held hostage by inmates, ending a weekend of gang violence that left at least seven police o...
January 19, 2026 1:36 PM
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty group Oxfam said on Monday. In a report timed for the ...
January 19, 2026 1:16 PM
Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh said on Monday that the biodiversity of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is critical to India’s environmental sustainability and economic security, describing the a...
January 19, 2026 12:51 PM
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government's deportation drive, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. The U.S. Army pl...
January 19, 2026 12:53 PM
Syria and the main Kurdish fighting force struck a wide-ranging deal to bring Kurdish civilian and military authorities under central government control on Sunday, ending days of fighting in which Syrian troops captured territory including ke...
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