International News

Microsoft on Wednesday pledged USD 500 million for loans and grants aimed at ramping up construction of affordable housing in the Puget Sound area of Washington state where the US technology giant has its home. “In recent years, our region hasn’t built enough housing for the people who live here,” Microsoft executives Amy Hood and Brad Smith said in a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the “historic leadership” of Palestine which assumed the chairmanship of G77, the global body’s largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries including India. Egypt was the previous Chair of the Group of 77 (G77), a coalition of 134 members, along with China which aligns itself with the bloc. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed ...

China has achieved great success on the moon. They have landed the world’s first spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. China’s Spacecraft Chang E-4 touched the part of the Moon on the morning of January 3. The part on which the vehicle has landed is very far from the earth and there is no big information about it. ...

Pakistan Tuesday shared with India a list of its nuclear installations and facilities as per the provisions of a bilateral agreement. The list was handed over in accordance with Article-II of the Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks Against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India, signed on December 31, 1988, the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement here. ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday triggering a brief tsunami warning. The quake struck southeast of Davao City at a depth of 59 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said, a week after a volcano-triggered tsunami killed more than 400 people in neighbouring Indonesia. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned “hazardous tsunami waves from this ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed final tests of a hypersonic missile, which he earlier said would render existing missile defence systems obsolete. “On my instructions, the Ministry of Defence prepared and conducted a final test of this system. This has just been completed with absolute success,” Putin said during a televised meeting with members of the government. “Russia ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least 40 people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in a tsunami in Indonesia that may have been caused by a volcano known as the “child” of the legendary Krakatoa, officials said early Sunday. Dozens of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit beaches in South Sumatra and the western tip of ...

President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package with his USD 5.7 billion request that is almost certain to be rejected by the Senate. The White House said Trump will not travel to Florida on Friday for the Christmas holiday if the government is shutting down. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Travel plans for thousands of passengers went awry on Thursday ahead of the Christmas holiday period after one of UK’s busiest airports remained closed for the second day due to a number of drones spotted near its runway, evoking a stern warning from Prime Minister Theresa May. The runway of Gatwick Airport, Britain’s second-busiest after Heathrow Airport, ...

Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya’s legal troubles continue to mount as he is set to face bankruptcy proceedings in the UK High Court next year, brought by a consortium of Indian banks in their attempt to recoup unpaid debt worth nearly 1.145 billion pounds. TLT LLP, the UK-based law firm which had won a landmark case for the 13 banks ...