US President Donald Trump says the number of American troops in Afghanistan has reached a 19-year low while his tenure ends next week, with thousands of boots still on the ground in the county. Trump ordered the reduction of US troops in November when there were about 4,000 troops in Afghanistan. He said in a […]
The outgoing administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed more sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and on three Iranian entities over conventional arms proliferation. The US State Department announced on Friday that Washington had sanctioned […]
WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal. The smartphone app, a huge hit across the world, canceled its February 8 deadline for accepting an update to its terms concerning sharing data with Facebook, saying it would use the […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decreed parliamentary and presidential elections to be held in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank later this year, the first such votes after 15 years of rivalry between his Fatah party and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. The Palestinian leadership has been divided between Fatah and Hamas since […]
Major American and British media have apparently reached a consensus to downplay the death of at least 23 people in Norway who received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US firm Pfizer and German BioNTech. The Norwegian Medicines Agency said on Thursday that all 13 of the fatalities were above the age of 80, adding it […]
TRP Scam: WhatsApp Messages Reveal Arnab Goswami’s ‘Collusion’ With Former BARC Chief The Mumbai police have annexed alleged conversations between the Republic TV founder and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta in a supplementary chargesheet. The discussions also reveal Goswami has connections in high places and was aware of many key Central government decisions. Mumbai: In […]
US transfers Daesh prisoners to Iraqi-Syrian border: Report The US military has transferred Daesh prisoners to the Iraqi-Syrian border in order to provide a pretext for its continued presence in the region and for future attacks on the Syrian army, local sources say. American forces used choppers to relocate the Daesh terrorists from prisons in […]
A Palestinian child has sustained serious injuries after an Israeli military jeep ran him over in an apparent hit-and-run incident in the northern part of the West Bank. The Palestinian Information Center, citing local sources, said the incident took place in Zububa village, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening. Witnesses […]
A top UN official has called on the US to reverse its controversial decision to designate Ansarullah as a “terrorist” organization, warning that such a move literally means giving a “death sentence to hundreds of thousands” in Yemen. According to reports, David Beasley, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, made the call […]
Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1 These leaked WhatsApp chats of #ArnabGoswami are far more explosive than #RadiaTapes. They show the unholy nexus of media with those in power; It shows how TRP is manipulated; It shows how cynically fake news is propogated; Above all,it lays bare the prime Dalal of Dalali street! churumuri @churumuri The selfless […]