19-05-2023 LONDON: In a historic development, global temperatures are now more likely than not to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming within the next five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This does not imply that the world will surpass the long-term warming threshold of …
Read More »Ancient Hebrew Bible sells for staggering $38 million in auction
19-05-2023 NEW YORK: In a historic auction in New York, a remarkable Hebrew Bible over 1,000 years old was sold for a staggering $38.1 million, setting a new record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon, dating back to the late ninth to early 10th …
Read More »Some BJP leaders look at Congress
There is a buzz in Telangana that many BJP leaders are looking at the Congress party and many are talking to the PCC Chief Revanth Reddy. “No newcomer is joining the BJP. We are not growing. We don’t have candidates in most constituencies,” said a state BJP leader. The Big …
Read More »CM KCR conspiring to ban Bajrang Dal: MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Hyderabad, May17 (PMI): BJP State president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar today alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was conspiring to ban right wing Bajrang Dal organisations in Telangana State. He said KCR was competing with his political rival Congress in the issue. Speaking at the OBC sammelan held in Nagole on …
Read More »G7 struggles with response to China ‘economic coercion’ threat
18-05-2023 TOKYO: The G7 countries all agree on the threat of China’s economic coercion but reaching a consensus on concrete action to counter Beijing promises to be a challenge for the club of wealthy democracies amid divisions over how to manage ties with the world’s second-biggest economy. The leaders of …
Read More »Syrian refugees in fear as Lebanon steps up deportations
18-05-2023 BEIRUT/ DAMASCUS: For seven years, Moussa al-Omari has been postponing his military service in Syria but knowing he was running out of legitimate reasons, he left the country in August last year and entered Lebanon legally through the airport. Seeing March this year was the final month of his …
Read More »New Zealand police suspect arson in deadly hostel fire
18-05-2023 WELLINGTON: New Zealand police say they believe a deadly hostel fire in the capital, Wellington, was likely a result of arson and they are treating it as a homicide investigation. Smoke and flames engulfed the four-storey Loafers Lodge early on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least six …
Read More »Dozens hurt & missing after hippo hits boat in Malawi River
18-05-2023 LILONGWE: A one-year-old child died and 23 people were missing and feared dead after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in southern Malawi, according to authorities. Police in the southern African country’s southern district of Nsanje said on Tuesday that the vessel was carrying …
Read More »Gunmen attack convoy of US embassy in Nigeria
18-05-2023 ABUJA: A convoy of United States embassy staff has come under fire in southeast Nigeria, an attack that killed two employees and two police officers. Gunmen also kidnapped three individuals two other police officers and a driver during the attack on Tuesday near the town of Atani in Nigeria’s …
Read More »Curfew in Lesotho to tackle gun crime after journalist killed
18-05-2023 LESOTHO, SOUTH AFRICA: Authorities in Lesotho have declared an indefinite curfew in the hope that curtailing the movement of people at night will help curb gun violence in the small southern African kingdom. The curfew, which came into force on Tuesday, comes just days after a prominent radio journalist …
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