Foreign ministers of Southeast Asian countries prepared for a special meeting with Myanmar’s ruling military on Tuesday in an effort to quell deadly violence and open a channel to tackle its escalating political crisis. The talks will come two days after
The year before last, the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Petteri Taalas, released the provisional climate statement “The years 2013 to 2017 are likely to be the hottest five-year period on record” on the UN climate change conference
MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Uralvagonzavod defense manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) has delivered a batch of upgraded T-90M ‘Proryv’ (‘Breakthrough’) main battle tanks to the Russian Army, the enterprise’s press office told TASS on Monday. “Uralvagonzavod
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Monday that he was ready to call early elections to bring the country out of a political crisis that followed last year’s war with Azerbaijan. “If the parliamentary opposition agrees to early elections, we
India’s economic growth has picked up momentum, indicating the recovery is “here to stay,” according to an economic advisor to India’s Prime Minster Narendra Modi. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, India’s economy expanded by 0.4% year-on-year in the October-December
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran on Monday for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week but sidestepped a question on whether he planned to retaliate. Tehran promptly rejected the accusation. The MV Helios Ray, a
BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on young officials to carry on the glorious traditions and fine conduct of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and make contributions to fully building a modern socialist
MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat booster and Arktika-M weather satellite blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport, according to a broadcast on the Roscosmos state space corporation’s website. The first Arktika-M Arctic monitoring satellite launched from
A citizens’ council on climate met for the last time over the weekend to finalise proposals on climate change laws aimed at rapidly transitioning to a greener economy and enshrining the fight for climate change in the French constitution. While some view
Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in good health at a court hearing via video conferencing on Monday, during which an additional charge was added to those filed against her after a coup a month ago, a lawyer