United States President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will hold talks by video conference amid growing tension over Ukraine on Tuesday, the White House said. “President Biden will underscore US concerns with Russian military activities on the border with Ukraine and reaffirm the United States support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity
India has cleared the production of 500,000 AK-203 assault rifles, government sources said Saturday, to equip one of the world’s largest armies with a more reliable weapon that replaces the in-service and glitch-prone indigenous Insas rifle. The clearance for the nearly $700-million joint project with Russia comes a day before President Vladimir Putin arrives in
The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered Friday a probe into President Jair Bolsonaro’s during a live broadcast that Covid-19 vaccines might raise the chance of contracting AIDS. The decision by Justice Alexandre de Moraes to investigate the president came in response to a request by a Senate probe panel that accused Bolsonaro of committing «crimes against
The Cybertruck, Tesla’s pickup van, will have four electric motors, the company’s CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter on Friday, explaining that the vehicle will also have independent front and rear wheel steering. The addition of directional motion to the rear axle will allow the Cybertruck to move transversely, while the four-motor version will have
The Government of Nicaragua, through the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur), exhibited on Friday replicas of the patron saints of the different municipalities of the country, as a way of attracting tourism, and in the absence of representatives of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church. The 6th edition of the «National Exhibition of Our Patron Saints» was
A militant attack in Central Mali has left at least 33 civilians dead, local sources said, in the latest strike by suspected Islamist insurgents in a region troubled by years of an ongoing armed conflict. The attack took place on Friday in Mopti in the inner Niger Delta region of the landlocked West African nation.
Twitter’s new head, Parag Agrawal, Friday announced several changes in the leadership for the organizational restructuring of the social media giant just days after co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced his sudden departure earlier this week. Agrawal said the shake-up of the company was for a «faster execution» and «operational rigor» of Twitter so that
Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández Wednesday congratulated leftist Xiomara Castro, set to become the first female head of the South American country with more than half of the ballots cast in Nov.28 polls counted so far. In a message broadcast on the national radio and television network, the president also felicitated his compatriots «for the
Communities in northern Chile continue to experience a migrant crisis due to failures of the national government, the mayor of the border town of Colchane told Efe. «It remains a very concerning issue for us because of the massive, uncontrolled influx. In recent days another victim was added to the list of fatalities and regrettably,
An end-of-year bonus that once allowed Venezuelans to splurge on expensive items and throw lavish Christmas parties has lost all value and significance due to the steady erosion of consumers’ purchasing power. Four years of hyperinflation have caused the value of the bolivar to plummet and exacted a particularly hefty toll on wage workers, with
A Taliban decree on the rights of women Friday focused mainly on marriage and post-wedding but remained silent if females would be allowed to get the education and work under the rule of the Islamists. “A woman is not a property but a noble and free human being. No one can give her to anyone
Docked in the cold waters of Peru’s Lake Titicaca, which straddles the border with Bolivia, is the world’s oldest operational iron ship, the Yavari. But despite its rich historical value, the 160 year-old vessel has been abandoned by local authorities and is today no longer permitted to sail the waters. EFE fg/mp/jt
Straight lines and smooth surfaces are the order of the day when it comes to contemporary design and a «polished» aesthetic has become the essence of 21st-century architecture, Spanish photographer Jon Gorospe argues in his latest exhibition which launches in Rome on Friday. Polished Cities dissects myriad contemporary buildings found in cities across the world,
The incoming chairwoman of the Inditex fashion group, Marta Ortega, paid tribute to photographer Peter Lindbergh with an event that brought together the biggest fashion names in the world. The exhibition on display in the Spanish city of A Coruña, in the northwestern region of Galicia, is the first major show of the German fashion
The Islamic Republic of Iran has had a complicated relationship with the idea of household pets for years but now officials are debating whether to ban the ownership of dogs and cats altogether as the animals are considered “impure” in religious sectors of society. “Animals cause a gradual change in the Iranian and Islamic way
A Philippines court gave the go-ahead to journalist Maria Ressa Friday to travel to Norway and receive her Nobel Peace Prize. The Court of Appeals allowed the Rappler CEO to stay in Oslo for five days from Dec.8 to Dec.13, during which she will attend the ceremony on Dec.10. Ressa, 58, a co-founder of the