Tag: Region Asias

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. RIYADH, February 18. /TASS/. Moscow and Washington have agreed to appoint their ambassadors as soon as possible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after a meeting with senior US officials in Riyadh. He expanded on the agreements that were reached during the talks. “The first one, and probably the most pressing and difficult one, is to ensure the soonest appointment of the Russian…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. ROME, February 18. /TASS/. The United States made it clear at the Munich Conference that America no longer wants to play big brother to Europe, distancing itself from any kind of leadership role on the continent, Tiberio Graziani, the president of the International Institute for Global Analyses Vision & Global Trends, told TASS. In his view, the Munich forum highlighted the inherent contradictions…

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, South Korean officials said Monday. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said DeepSeek’s apps were removed from the local versions of Apple’s App Store and Google Play on Saturday evening and that the company agreed to work with the agency to strengthen privacy protections before relaunching the apps. The action does not affect…

On Sunday, Mumbai Police arrested Dharmesh Paun, private developer from Kandivali, in connection with the New India Cooperative Bank scam (NICB). According to the police, Paun allegedly received illicit funds from the bank’s General Manager and Account Head, Hitesh Mehta, who was also arrested Saturday. The scam was uncovered during an audit at the bank’s headquarters in Prabhadevi last Wednesday, when RBI officials discovered funds missing from the vault. Mehta, who has been with the bank since 1988, reportedly confessed…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Europe will “forgive and swallow with disgust” the criticism from US Vice President JD Vance, according to Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council. Medvedev noted that Vance is “a brave guy, though still an inexperienced vice president.” The previous day, Vance, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, criticized EU commissioners for censorship, stating that Europe was…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. CAIRO, February 15. /TASS/. Hostages held by Palestinian radicals in the Gaza Strip, including Russian Alexander Trufanov, have been handed over to the staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Egypt’s Al-Qahira Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported on Saturday. According to the footage provided by the Egyptian TV broadcaster, doctors and representatives of the radical party signed the relevant documents approving…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. ANKARA, February 14. /TASS/. A new round of aggression by Israel supported by the US would lead to even greater casualties among the Israelis, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters from his pool upon returning from Asia. “We can clearly see that Hamas is honoring its promises under the ceasefire agreement. As usual, it is the Israeli administration that is the party…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. The portfolio of Rosatom’s international orders was over $200 bln in 2024, Ekaterina Lyakhova, the Business Development Director of the Russian state nuclear corporation, said during the Russian Business Week. “Rosatom is indeed working proactively in the international market. We are currently present in more than sixty countries. Export revenues of the last year totaled more than $18 bln…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. NOVO-OGARYOVO, February 12. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa have exchanged views on the situation in the country, the Kremlin press service reported, citing the content of the telephone conversation between the heads of state. “The sides held a substantive exchange of views on the current situation in Syria,” the statement said. “The Russian side stressed its principled…

The following article is from a Russian news source, Tass, which is controlled by the Russian Government. MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. The United States will not do away with its propaganda-peddling media, regardless of what Elon Musk says, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Talking to the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, Zakharova was asked to speculate why Musk, now in charge of the US Department of Government Efficiency, said that he wants shut down the Voice of America radio station…

The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active-duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday. That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 active-duty troops at the border. The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly…

The U.S. Military Academy has disbanded a dozen West Point cadet clubs centered on ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality in response to the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity programs throughout government. The famed military academy in New York issued a memo Tuesday shutting down groups including the Asian-Pacific Forum Club, Latin Cultural Club, National Society of Black Engineers Club and Society of Women Engineers Club in order to adhere to recent guidance from the Army and Defense Department. It also shut…

MANILA, Philippines — U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft staged a joint patrol and training Tuesday over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese fighter jets fired flares last year to drive away a Philippine aircraft, Philippine officials said. The joint patrol and air-intercept drills over the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines were the first by the longtime treaty allies since U.S. President Donald Trump took office again. Trump’s “America First” foreign policy thrust has sparked concerns…

The Chinese-made AI chatbot DeepSeek may not always answer some questions about topics that are often censored by Beijing, according to tests run by CBC News and The Associated Press, and is providing different information than its U.S.-owned competitor ChatGPT. The new, free chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test it. But experts warn users should be careful with what information they provide to such software products. It is also “a little bit surprising,”…

Israeli forces shot a two-year-old girl in the head in her West Bank home on Saturday while she was eating dinner with her family, according to health officials and family members. The Palestinian Health Ministry says Laila Muhammad Al-Khatib was shot dead during an Israeli military raid on the village of Ash-Shuhada, just south of Jenin. “They started to shoot at us through the windows without any warning,” Ghada Asous, the toddler’s grandmother, said. “All of a sudden, the special forces raided…