India announced seven days of state mourning on Friday after the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in New Delhi, Sarah Jacob. Source link
Syria’s new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to pursue “remnants” of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government accused of the attack. Story by Camille Knight. Source link
Seoul, South Korea – A North Korean soldier captured while fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine has died of wounds, South Korea’s spy agency said Friday. Pyongyang has deployed thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s military, including in the Kursk border area, where Ukraine made a sudden border incursion in August. One of those North … Read more
Two sailors have been killed in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart yacht race, officials said on Friday, as a string of yachts retired in powerful winds and high seas. Story by Liza Kaminov. Source link
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down. Story by Liza Kaminov. Source link
A woman in her eighties has been killed in a stabbing in the coastal city of Herzliya, Israel, an Israeli hospital said Friday. A 28-year-old suspected of being the attacker was arrested by Israeli police in the occupied West Bank. Source link
“If I had known I would have to talk about this damned kitchen for the rest of my life, I would have never built it!” said 100-year-old Margaret Schütte-Lihotzky in an interview in 1998. The kitchens he designed in the 1920s reflected architectural history and revolutionized the lives of public housing residents by creating a … Read more
A majority of South Korean lawmakers in the country’s opposition-dominated parliament voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday. The ruling party has maintained that a two-thirds majority is needed to impeach an acting president. Source link
Tokyo— Japan’s government on Friday approved a record budget for the next fiscal year, boosting spending on social welfare and defense to deal with regional threats as the population ages. The $730 billion budget for the year through April 2025, approved by the Cabinet, includes $55 billion in defense spending. It also includes social security … Read more
Defense Stocks: The Indian defense sector has delivered many multibaggers stocks in the last three years. The prices of these stocks were seen increasing by 3 to 10 times between September 2022 and July 2024, due to which investors got huge profits. However, profit booking started in these shares from July 2024 onwards. The NSE … Read more