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Saturday, December 13, 2025
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China holds low-key Nanjing Massacre memorial despite Japan tensions

NANJING, China, Dec 13 (Reuters) - China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, despite a diplomatic crisis between

One dead in Russia’s Saratov region after drone alert

Dec 13 (Reuters) - One person was killed and infrastructure was damaged in southern Russia's Saratov region after an air raid alert for drones was issued, regional governor Roman Busargin said early

US envoy Witkoff will travel to Berlin to meet with Zelenskiy and European leaders

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders in

Venezuela-US tensions spike in wake of seized tanker as Nobel winner vows change

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday promised political change after slipping out of the country in secret to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, as the shock

Joint Saudi-Emirate delegation in Aden for talks as 32 killed in STC takeover

Dec 12 (Reuters) - A joint Saudi-Emirati military delegation arrived in Aden to discuss measures aimed at defusing tensions in southern Yemen, days after the country’s main southern separatist group

North Korean leader Kim hails troops returning from Russia mission, state media says

SEOUL, Dec 13 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North's KCNA news

Bolivia judge rules ex-President Arce be held in pre-trial detention for five months

Dec 12 (Reuters) - A Bolivian judge on Friday said that ex-President Luis Arce will be held in pre-trial detention for five months following his detention earlier this week and as he is investigated

US forces raided ship headed to Iran from China in Indian Ocean, WSJ says

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal

EU vote on Mercosur trade deal set for next week, Denmark says

BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - European Union countries are set to vote early next week to determine whether the bloc should sign a contentious trade agreement with South American bloc Mercosur by the

Senior US Democrats urge release of Venezuela boat strike video

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Democratic members of the "Gang of Eight" of U.S. congressional and intelligence committee leaders called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday to make public

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A shame-faced modesty pervades 1991 reforms. This is strange and inappropriate: Ashok Desai

Liberty is not accepted in India as the ultimate goal of political systems. This is why, for instance, there is so much paranoia about foreign investments, wrote economist Ashok V Desai in 1995.

Goa, Kerala lose sheen as more foreign tourists pick Maharashtra & Bengal, shows RBI data

RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.