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December 5, 2024 12:57 PM

Barnier expected to resign as France’s festering political crisis rumbles on

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging France into its second major political crisis in six months. Barnier, a veteran politician who was ...

December 5, 2024 12:05 PM

ASEAN ministers to discuss Myanmar at Thailand meeting, Indonesia says

Members of the Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN are planning to hold a ministerial meeting in Thailand later this month to discuss the crisis in member-nation Myanmar, Indonesia's foreign ministry spokesperson Roy Soemirat told reporters on Thursd...

December 5, 2024 10:45 AM

Bhutan King arrives in New Delhi for two-day official visit

Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck received a warm welcome from External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar upon his arrival in New Delhi on Thursday for his two-day official visit to India. He was accompanied by Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuc...

December 5, 2024 10:35 AM

Cuba calls Trump proposal for mass deportation of immigrants unrealistic

A Trump administration proposal to deport mass numbers of immigrants residing in the U.S. illegally, presumably including some Cubans, is both unrealistic and unfair, Cuba's Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told reporters on Wednesday...

December 5, 2024 9:45 AM

French government felled in no-confidence vote, deepening political crisis

French lawmakers passed a no-confidence vote against the government on Wednesday, throwing the European Union's second-biggest economic power deeper into a crisis that threatens its capacity to legislate and tame a massive budget deficit. Far-right ...

December 5, 2024 9:38 AM

Arab Development Group pledges $10 billion to combat land degradation by 2030

The Arab Coordination Group (ACG) has committed up to $10 billion to fight land degradation, desertification, and drought by 2030. The announcement came during the UN Convention to Combat Desertification's COP16 conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. T...

December 5, 2024 9:31 AM

South Korean ruling party opposes Yoon impeachment, defence minister quits

South Korea's parliament introduced a motion on Thursday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over a botched attempt to impose martial law, while the defence minister blamed for advising the move and ordering troops to the parliament resigned. Lawmake...

December 4, 2024 6:13 PM

India expands world’s largest grain storage plan in cooperative sector

Under the pilot phase of the ambitious World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan in the cooperative sector, godowns have been successfully constructed at Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) in 11 states across India. These include Maharashtra, Ut...

December 4, 2024 3:09 PM

Israeli forces advance in Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, 20 killed across enclave

Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 20 people across the enclave. Residents said tanks advanced one day after...

December 4, 2024 1:43 PM

EU delays deforestation ban but discards changes

Negotiators for EU institutions agreed a compromise on Tuesday on a ban on the import of commodities linked to deforestation, which will be delayed by a year but without changes proposed by EU lawmakers. The European Commission in October proposed a...

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