20-06-2024 GAZA CITY: Across the Gaza Strip, in a landscape newly transformed by war, mountains of stinking rubbish pose severe dangers to health and the environment. “We’ve never lived next to rubbish before,” says Asmahan al-Masri, a displaced woman, originally from Beit Hanoun in the north, whose home is now …

20-06-2024 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA: Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab became the world’s most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence technology. Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.5% to $135.58, lifting …

Hyderabad, June 19 (PMI) The Inspector General of Police, Multi Zone-II, Hyderabad, G. Sudheer Babu issued an order regarding the suspension of Bijja Srinivasulu, Sub-Inspector of Police, Utkoor Police Station, Narayanpet District. It has come to the notice of the IGP that Bijja Srinivasulu, a responsible Station House Officer, exhibited gross negligence …

19-06-2024 WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden has unveiled one of the largest immigration regularization programs in recent history, offering a pathway to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the country. The new measures, announced on Tuesday, will allow some undocumented spouses of US citizens …

19-06-2024 WELLINGTON/ PORT MORESBY: If a plane has to make an unscheduled landing, that often means there’s been some kind of medical emergency on board but an Air New Zealand plane had a very different reason for making an unplanned stop yesterday, they were picking up the country’s prime minister …

19-06-2024 MANILA/ BEIJING: China’s embassy in the Philippines accused the US military of “hypocrisy, malign intention and double standards” in response to a report of secret U.S. campaign to undermine confidence in a Chinese vaccines and other aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. The remarks made by the spokesperson of the …

19-06-2024 PARIS:  The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, appealed to voters on Tuesday to hand his party an absolute majority in upcoming parliamentary elections so that it is able to govern effectively. Bardella’s eurosceptic, anti-immigration party has its first real chance of winning national power in …

19-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is due to make her electoral debut, potentially strengthening the opposition’s challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in parliament after he was humbled in a recent election, politicians and analysts said. The family has long been the …

19-06-2024 MOSCOW: Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin congratulated South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa on his re-election as president on Monday, reflecting continued good relations with Pretoria despite uncertainty over Moscow’s more than two-year-old invasion of Ukraine. “Hope was expressed for continued joint work on further strengthening of the partnership between Russia and …

19-06-2024 BERLIN/ BRUSSELS: Chinese electric vehicle imports to Germany declined in the first four months of the year, but Asia’s economic powerhouse still managed to increase its EV import market share in Germany during the period, the German statistics office said on Tuesday. Imports of Chinese EVs to Germany fell …