Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to sever ties with the European Union (EU) if the bloc hits it with painful economic sanctions, according to extracts of an interview posted on the ministry’s website on Friday. Relations between Russia and the West have come under renewed pressure over the arrest and مزید پڑھیں

Tikait will hold his first kisan mahapanchayat away from North India, at Yavatmal, on February 20.The move was confirmed by BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik. “We have finalised the Yavatmal kisan mahapanchayat for February 20. Rakesh Tikait will address the mahapanchayat, which will be held under the banner of Sanyukta Kisan Morcha,” Malik told Indian مزید پڑھیں

United States President Joe Biden had his first call as president with Xi Jinping, pressing the Chinese leader about trade and Beijing’s crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong as well as other human rights concerns. The two leaders spoke on Wednesday just hours after Biden announced plans for a Pentagon task force to review مزید پڑھیں

Nepal on Wednesday revoked the Everest summit certificates of two Indian climbers for faking their 2016 ascent, and banned them and their team leader from mountaineering in the country for six years, officials said. Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami said they reached the top of the world’s highest mountain in the 2016 spring مزید پڑھیں

India and China have agreed to pull back troops from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border. Rajnath Singh told parliament the accord had been reached after several rounds of talks between military commanders مزید پڑھیں

A divided US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears unlikely barring a major shift among Republicans. The Senate voted 56-44 to proceed to the first-ever trial of a former president, rejecting مزید پڑھیں

Apple Inc has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to develop micro OLED displays, which it plans to use in its upcoming augmented reality (AR) devices Apple is collaborating with TSMC, the sole supplier of iPhone processors, as micro OLED displays are far thinner, smaller and use less power, making them more suitable for use مزید پڑھیں

A confidential UN report has shown that North Korea has continued to maintain and develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 and that it was being funded by close to $300 million that the country has stolen through cyber attacks. The report by independent sanctions monitors, seen by Reuters, said Pyongyang “produced fissile مزید پڑھیں

Former US president Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial began on Tuesday. He is being charged for inciting last month’s deadly storming of the US Capitol amid debate over the constitutionality of trying a president after he has left office. Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6 after a fiery speech in which مزید پڑھیں

Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup vowed to continue non-violent action on in the face of bans on big gatherings, night curfews and road closures after the biggest demonstrations in more than a decade. The Feb. 1 coup and detention of elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi brought three days of protests across the Southeast مزید پڑھیں