Elon Musk is world's richest person again

Musk’s net worth was some $187.1 billion as of Monday after markets closed, according to Bloomberg, just topping the $185.3 billion fortune of Arnault
28 February 2023

Adani plans to repay up to $790m share-backed loans by March: sources

Adani has already held calls with bondholders earlier this month in attempts to assuage investor concerns, where group executives revealed refinancing plans at some of its units and also plans to completely pre-pay all loans against shares
28 February 2023

White House gives federal agencies 30 days to enforce TikTok ban

Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to "remove and disallow installations" of the application on agency-owned or operated IT devices, and to "prohibit internet traffic" from such devices to the app.
28 February 2023

Canada bans TikTok on govt phones, other devices

Effective Tuesday, "the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future," the government said in a statement
28 February 2023

Palestinians count cost of Israeli reprisals

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday counted the cost of deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two Israeli brothers were killed.
27 February 2023

Respect for rights gone into reverse

Respect for human rights has gone into reverse, the United Nations chief warned yesterday, calling for a renewal of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 75 years after its signing.
27 February 2023

UK strikes Northern Ireland deal with EU

Standing alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a news conference in Windsor, Sunak said the two sides had agreed to ease trade rules for the British province and give its lawmakers more control over the laws they have to follow
27 February 2023

Iran girls poisoned to stop education, says official

An Iranian deputy minister has said "some people" were poisoning schoolgirls in the holy city of Qom with the aim of shutting down education for girls, state media reported..Since late November, hundreds of cases of respiratory poisoning have been reported among schoolgirls mainly in Qom,
27 February 2023

Death toll 62 in migrant shipwreck off Italy

Rescuers recovered three more bodies today, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in inclement weather off southern Italy, bringing the death toll to 62, including at least 14 children..Many of the victims washed ashore close to where the vessel sank
27 February 2023

Progress on human rights 'gone into reverse'

He said the Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most massive violations of human rights being witnessed in the world today
27 February 2023

Elon Musk calls US media 'racist' after Dilbert row

"For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians," Musk wrote on the social network, where he has reinstated users banned for hate speech
27 February 2023

Jordan hosts Israeli -Palestinian talks

Jordan hosted a meeting between top Israeli and Palestinian officials yesterday to try to halt surging violence, an official said, as Washington and its Arab allies seek to defuse tensions that have led to concern of a wider escalation.
26 February 2023

59 migrants killed in Italy shipwreck

At least 59 people died, including 12 children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants to Europe crashed against rocks near the southern Italian coast early yesterday, authorities said.
26 February 2023

US papers drop ‘Dilbert’ after creator’s racist remarks

Multiple US newspapers have said they will stop publishing the popular “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator posted a video calling Black people a “hate group.”
26 February 2023

Russia battling for survival

President Vladimir Putin has cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.
26 February 2023

Blinken eyes US inroads in Central Asia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Central Asia hoping that greater US engagement will reassure former Soviet republics rattled by the Ukraine war, although Russia’s historic clout limits the extent of cooperation.
26 February 2023

4 killed in market blast in Pakistan's Balochistan

At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan's Barkhan today morning, police and health officials said
26 February 2023

At least 45 killed in migrant shipwreck off Italy coast

Forty-five people died, including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said
26 February 2023

Peruvian archaeologists unearth 30 pre-Inca era graves

The newly found 800-year-old graves have allowed specialists to know more about the Chancay culture
26 February 2023

US medical transport plane crashes in Nevada, 5 dead

In addition to the pilot, the plane was carrying a nurse, a paramedic, a patient and a patient's family member
26 February 2023