Latest salvo looks to further curtail Tehran’s ability to access international banks for routing oil payments. Iran faces multiple US sanctions under Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign.
Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal on Thursday quashed Jimmy Lai’s 5 year-long jail term in a 2022 fraud case tied to use of his former Apple Daily headquarters beyond lease terms.
Critics said 20-year term awarded to the founder of Hong-Kong’s now defunct Chinese-language independent newspaper, Apple Daily, was essentially a life sentence.
Jimmy Lai is an open critic of the Chinese Communist Party and was first arrested in 2020. Since then, he has been in jail, either on remand or serving five separate sentences.
As firefighters began battling to contain the inferno, residents made desperate calls to emergency services. Others begged for their pets to be saved, and elderly people in wheelchairs struggled to escape.
The ED probe found scamsters pretending to be directors of shell firms & forging CA forms to route funds abroad via ICICI Bank accounts through identity fraud & the misuse of regulatory gaps.
Dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants in Singapore & Hong Kong are subvariants of JN.1, which is a sub-lineage of the BA.2.86 omicron variant first seen in Denmark in July, 2023.
The Government of India recognises Ladakh as one of the most important living centres of Buddhist culture in the world. We are committed to safeguarding its unique cultural traditions.
Post-2022 as AI has spread in developed economies, it is leading to another round of polarisation—the middle class jobs are being lost in offices rather than in factories.
The fifth S-400 air defence system is undergoing various stages of production trials, and will be delivered by November-December this year, it is learnt.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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