Indian magnate Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men and a strong backer of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was charged by US prosecutors on Wednesday for allegedly paying over $250 million in bribes to Indian officials. Source link
Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors said on Wednesday. Source link
One day after Ukraine for the first time launched US-made missiles deep into Russian territory, air raid sirens rippled across Kyiv in response to online indications that Russia might be preparing a missile and drone attack on the capital. Source link
Gisele Pelicot, the French woman drugged by her ex-husband so she could be raped and sexually abused by him and dozens of strangers, said on Tuesday that it was time for a “macho” society to change its attitude on rape. Pelicot has become a feminist icon by refusing to be ashamed and demanding the trial … Read more
The death toll from gang violence in Haiti this year rose to over 4,500 after 150 people were killed in the capital of Port-au-Prince over the past week, the United Nations’ human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday, but amid rampant violence and persistent political instability, Turk said the latest “upsurge” in violence is … Read more
The United States on Wednesday stood as the sole obstacle to the adoption of a UN resolution which sought to implement an immediate ceasefire to the Israel-Hamas war, saying the resolution didn’t “link release of hostages to an immediate, unconditional ceasefire”. Source link
Petrol Diesel Prices Today: National Oil Marketing Companies have updated the rates of petrol and diesel. According to the latest update today, 21 November 2024, there has been no change in the rates of petrol and diesel. Oil marketing companies decide the rates of petrol and diesel at 6 am. Know here what was the … Read more
Social media was abuzz with misleading, out of context images from Iran this week: dated, decade-old images being used to claim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was hospitalized in a coma, and a slew of footage from 2022 demonstrations being presented as currently unrest . Vedika Bahl talks to us through it in this episode … Read more
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, parties from the political opposition have announced that they consider President Felix Tshisekedi’s plan to change the constitution as tantamount to a coup d’état, and vowed to fight the move. Source link
🔴 Mali junta sacks Prime Minister Maiga and his government Source link