Los Angeles, June 12 (UNI) Nearly 400 people in immigration protests have been arrested or detained by the Los Angeles Police Department since Saturday, media reports said. BBC News revealed that the arrested and detained include 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for assault and obstruction. On the first night of curfew starting Tuesday…
Houston, June 12 (UNI) Non-essential U.S. embassy staff and their dependents have been ordered to leave Iraq due to unspecified security risks, sources from the U.S. State Department said. “Based on our latest analysis, we decided to reduce the footprint of our mission in Iraq,” the State Department said in a statement on Wednesday. “We…
Moscow, June 12 (UNI) Moscow is raising the issue of previously imposed restrictions on the work of Russian journalists with the United States, including sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya international media group, Russian Ambassador to the US Alexander Darchiev said. “Of course they are being discussed. We are raising these issues,” Darchiev told reporters on…
Sydney, June 12 (UNI) Australian police have launched an investigation after the bodies of two people were found at a home in Sydney’s northern suburbs. Emergency services were called to conduct a welfare check at the home in Forestville, about 12 km north of central Sydney in the state of New South Wales (NSW) on…
Luanda, June 12 (UNI) At least two children died and 2,000 families suffered power cut after unusual heavy rains in dry season pounded Angola’s northern province of Uige for three days, the Angola Press Agency (ANGOP) said Wednesday. Antonio Simao, deputy provincial commander of the Service for Civil Protection and Firefighters, said the deaths occurred…
Jerusalem, June 12 (UNI) Israel has informed US officials that it is fully prepared to launch a military operation in Iran, the CBS News broadcaster reported on Thursday, citing sources. Washington expects that Iran may launch a retaliatory strike on some American facilities in neighboring Iraq, the report said. This is one of the reasons…
Moscow, June 11 (UNI) Russian Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky has said that Moscow wants peace, but Ukraine must stop playing the role of ‘Western proxy’, if it wants the same. Medinsky had previously underscored that a mutually acceptable agreement between Russia and Ukraine could be reached quickly — if the Ukrainian side were to prioritise…
Kabul, June 11 (UNI) The HALO (Hazardous Area Life-support Organisation) Trust – one of the prime global NGOs for the dismantling of mines and other explosive objects, has said that Afghanistan is among the nine most mine filled countries in the world. It stated that over 6.4 million people are at risk every day of…
Lahore, June 11 (UNI) Pakistan is set to inaugurate its first freight train service to Russia from Lahore, on June 22 via the INSTC (International North-South Corridor), marking a significant step in the country’s bid for regional connectivity and international trade expansion, Minister for Railways Muhammad Hanif Abbasi said. Addressing a press conference in the…
Colombo, June 11 (UNI) The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the country’s electricity regulator, has approved a 15% nationwide hike in electricity tariffs, which will come into effect from tomorrow. In a statement, the PUCSL said tariffs for electric vehicle charging stations will remain unchanged. The tariffs come after a comprehensive government review…
