LONDON (AP) — A troubling post-Brexit fishing spat between Britain and France showed few signs of abating Monday, a day before a threatened French blockade of British boats and trucks.British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned France that the U.K. will “not roll over” in the face of what she termed “unreasonable” threats from Paris. French…Continue Reading
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans are voting on Monday in local government elections that will offer an indication if support for the ruling African National Congress has rebounded after waning in recent years. The municipal elections, which take place every five years, determine the composition of councils responsible for providing essential services like water, waste…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s growing military muscle and its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific is rattling the U.S. defense establishment. American officials see trouble quickly accumulating on multiple fronts — Beijing’s expanding nuclear arsenal, its advances in space, cyber and missile technologies, and threats to Taiwan.“The pace at which China is moving…Continue Reading
At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become.On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200 people. He said he had recently been…Continue Reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin raced to fire up their parties’ base voters in opposite ends of Virginia as they worked to drive up turnout in a deadlocked and bitter contest for governor that will be scrutinized as a bellwether ahead of next year’s midterms elections.McAuliffe, who served as…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the law, which…Continue Reading
Authored by पूनम पाण्डे | Edited by पंकज सिंह | नवभारत टाइम्स | Updated: Nov 1, 2021, 7:08 PMहाल ही में एक विज्ञापन पर विवाद हुआ और कहा गया कि हिंदुओं के त्योहार दिवाली पर यह हमला है, विवाद के बाद विज्ञापन वापस भी ले लिया गया, इसे आप कैसे देखते हैं? इस सवाल पर…Continue Reading
COP26 climate summit must act to ‘save humanity’: UN chief GuterresAFPLast Updated: Nov 01, 2021, 07:03 PM ISTSynopsis“Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. We are digging our own graves.”Agencies“It’s time to say: enough,” the…Continue Reading
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the opening ceremony of the COP26 UN Climate Summit, in Glasgow.GLASGOW: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened a global climate summit Monday, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device.” Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth’s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to…Continue Reading
Minister of State for Railways Darshana Jardosh was present on Monday for the launch of the casting of a full span pre-stressed concrete (PSC) box girder to be used for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed rail corridor, popularly called a ‘bullet train’. She said the first trial run of the bullet train between Surat and Bilimora…Continue Reading