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India pushes for projects in SL instead of LOCs: Report
In its report, the Sunday Times said that the Mannar-Pooneryn wind power plants granted to Adani Green Energy Limited, the West Container Terminal in which Adani Ports has a controlling stake; and the proposed joint venture solar power plant in Sampur with India's National Thermal Power Corporation are among the projects New Delhi was keen to fast-track. According to the newspaper, it was unlikely that more credit lines are to be secured from India for fuel, even though there could be a $1 billion swap but not for oil.
Russia takes full control of key Ukrainian city: Official
"The Russians have fully occupied Severodonetsk, our military has retreated to more prepared positions," the BBC quoted Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk as saying to Ukrainian TV on Saturday. Capturing Severodonetsk means Russia now controls nearly all of Luhansk region and much of neighbouring Donetsk, the two Russian-backed separatists regions that form the industrial Donbas. Also confirming the development on Saturday, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, Serhiy Haidai said 90 per cent of the city has been destroyed.
Russia to supply Iskander-M nuke capable missiles to Belarus: President Putin
"As you and I have agreed upon, you were asking about this, we made a decision. In the coming months, we will supply Belarus with Iskander-M tactical missile systems which, as it is known, can use both ballistic and cruise missiles both in the standard and nuclear modifications," TASS News Agency quoted Putin as saying to Lukashenko on Saturday during a televised meeting in St Petersburg. He also proposed to instruct Russian and Belarusian Defence Ministers and Chiefs of Staff to work through all the details related to this issue.
N.Korea holds anti-American rally to mark war anniversary
Pyongyang skipped such rallies in 2018 amid a thaw in relations with the US and had not resumed them amid the Covid-19 pandemic. "The speakers vehemently denounced the US imperialists for provoking the Korean War to nip in the bud the young DPRK less than two years after its foundation and perpetrating the most hideous massacre and barbaric destruction unprecedented in the world war history," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a report.
Pakistan sets up factories of disinformation in UK and Europe
One such campaign group is the so-called 'Friends of Kashmir' and the other is the 'Yassin Malik Defence Committee'. Mehmood has issued a deadline for August 31 by which time he expects these two campaign groups to have established networks in all major cities and towns of the UK and across Europe. He intends to achieve the above target deadline by making use of the mosques, the Pakistani High Commissions as well as a religious zealot Pakistan and PoJK diaspora.
Gun reforms act to become nationwide law after President Biden's approval
The legislation falls short of all the demands of the Democrats while for the Republicans it's a face-saving gesture with the American public crying wolf for strict gun laws in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Buffalo super store in New York and Texas public school in Uvalde that claimed 10 black lives and resulted in the death of 19 school children and two teachers in the most horrific slaying of the innocent common people.
Biden signs first gun reforms law in decades
"Nothing is going to fill that void in their hearts," Biden said of survivors and relatives of gun violence victims. "But they lead the way so other families will not have the experience with pain and trauma that they have to live through." "Their message to us was to do something. How many times have you heard that? Just do something? For God's sake, just do something. Well, today, we did," he added.
China clears law to penalise internet firms for abusing market competition
The amendment will take effect on August 1. China's top legislature on Friday passed an amendment to the anti-monopoly law in an effort to foster a fair, transparent and predictable environment for business operators. China has been strengthening supervision on the internet economy in the past two years. The total fine imposed was 21.74 billion yuan ($3.25 billion).
UN human rights chief blasts US abortion ruling
According to the UN, more than 50 countries with previously restrictive laws have liberalized their abortion legislation over the past 25 years, reports Xinhua news agency. "With today's ruling, the US is regrettably moving away from this progressive trend," the UN rights chief stressed. With the ruling, more than two dozen states in the US, primarily in the south and midwest, are expected to tighten abortion access.
Alarmed by ISIL and Al-Qaeda threats from Afghanistan, Russian and Central Asian defence ministers go into a huddle in Moscow
In a first-of-its-kind meeting, the defence ministers of Russia and Central Asian countries went into a huddle in Moscow on Friday to strengthen their coordination and form common approaches to combating these structures. The meeting was attended by the Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - Ruslan Zhaksylykov, Baktybek Bekbolotov, Sherali Mirzo and Bakhodir Kurbanov, respectively.
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