India softened global inflation, should be thanked for Russian oil purchases: Jaishankar

London: India’s purchase policies softened the oil and gas markets by its decision to continue transactions with Russia and should be thanked for managing global inflation as a consequence, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. During an interaction entitled ‘How a Billion People See the World’ at the Royal Over-Seas League here on Wednesday evening,…

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US conducts airstrike in eastern Syria on facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard: WH

Washington: The United States has conducted a self-defense airstrike in eastern Syria against a facility used by the Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups, the White House said Thursday. The precision strike was conducted in response to the recent attacks directed by the IRGC and affiliated groups against US and Coalition bases in Iraq…

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Israeli minister says nuking Gaza ‘an option’, suspended by Netanyahu

Jerusalem: An Israeli minister from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party on Sunday said that dropping an atomic bomb on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip was “an option”, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suspend him from government meetings indefinitely. In a radio interview, Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said that “there are no non-combatants…

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143 killed as strong earthquake jolts Nepal’s mountainous western region

Kathmandu: At least 143 people were killed and over 150 others injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the worst since 2015, struck Nepal and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan country’s remote mountainous region, officials said Saturday. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, the earthquake with an epicentre in Jajarkot district,…

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