Agartala, Mar 1 (UNI) A Bangladeshi smuggler was killed, and a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan sustained serious injuries in a violent clash along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura’s Sepahijala on Friday night, an official said. BSF claimed the on duty jawans had to open fire when the smugglers pelted stones targeting them during an…
Washington, Mar 1 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Volodymyr Zelenskyy should stop saying all negative things about Russian leader Vladimir Putin. When asked what Zelenskyy needs to do to restart talks following a failed meeting in the Oval office earlier in the day, Trump said “He’s got to say, I want…
Colombo, Mar 1 (UNI) Sri Lanka has frozen criminal assets worth 22.4 million U.S. dollars (6.6 billion rupees) from December 2024 to January 2025, Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala told parliament on Friday. He revealed that among the confiscated assets, 15.25 million dollars worth of assets belonged to drug traffickers. The government has also…
Riyadh, Mar 1 (UNI) Saudi Arabia on Friday voiced its rejection of forming a “parallel government” in war-torn Sudan. Saudi Arabia rejects “any illegitimate steps or measures taken outside the framework of the Republic of Sudan’s official institutions that may affect its unity and do not reflect the will of its people, including the call…
Moscow, Mar 1 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an agreement on security guarantees with Belarus within the Union State, according to a document posted on the country’s official legal information portal on Friday. The agreement was originally signed by Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Dec. 6, 2024 in Minsk. It was…
Jakarta, Mar 1 (UNI) A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province early Saturday without triggering large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported. The tremor struck at 4:58 a.m. Jakarta time on Saturday (2158 GMT Friday), with the epicenter located 167 km southeast of the Banda Islands at a depth of 158…
United Nations, Mar 1 (UNI) Attacks by the Islamic State (IS)-related Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed at least 23 civilians, UN humanitarians said on Friday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing local authorities, said the deadly escalation occurred in several…
Rio De Janeiro, Mar 1 (UNI) Neymar has been included in Brazil’s preliminary squad for World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said on Friday. The 33-year-old has not represented his country since suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a World Cup qualifier against Uruguay…
Kinshasa, Mar 1 (UNI) The death toll from two explosions in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 16, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said late Friday. The explosions occurred Thursday at the heart of Bukavu shortly after a political rally in support of the M23 rebels. The government and M23…
Washington, (UNI) An Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devolved Friday afternoon into a hostile confrontation, as Trump threatened Zelenskyy to make a deal with Russia, or “we’re out,” and Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of being “disrespectful.” “You’re gambling with World War III. And…
