BERLIN: German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) held “open and constructive” talks towards forming a coalition, a joint statement said on Friday (Feb 28) without giving details. Parliamentary arithmetic means the centre-left SPD is the most likely ally to help Merz’s conservativesContinue Reading
According to the philanthropic Partnership for Public Service, almost 6 % of federal employees retire or resign on average each year. The administration earlier in the day stated that those who don’t take the buyout may also lose their jobs. The White House has made an effort to discover thoseContinue Reading
” It’s a real destruction site. That’s for sure if we could find the right piece of land, or several pieces of land, and build some really great places there with plenty of cash in the area. I think that would be a lot better than going up to Gaza”,Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: India does not want to offer any indication that it is mercantilist, the best official in the banking department said, after slashing buy duties on high-end motorcycles, amid US President Donald Trump’s moves on tariffs. Trump sparked a trade war by imposing massive taxes on Canada, Mexico, andContinue Reading
JERUSALEM:  , US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, ( Jan 29 ) his office said in a statement, amid the Gaza ceasefire and a regional diplomatic push.  , Trump has claimed he wants to useContinue Reading
The prosecutors ‘ office requested on Friday ( Jan 24 ) to extend Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention because of a criminal investigation into his briefly-declared martial law on December 3, but a South Korean court on Friday ( January 24 ) rejected that request, according to Yonhap news agency. OnContinue Reading
Indonesian rescuers halted search efforts on Friday ( Jan 24 ) due to bad weather, which resulted in at least 25 deaths from a landslide on Java island three days ago, according to a spokesperson for the local rescuers. On Tuesday, a disaster in the town of Pekalongan in CentralContinue Reading
Beijing and Hanoi are ready to work together to create a community with a shared future of strategic significance, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency on Saturday ( January 18 ). To mark the 75th commemoration of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Vietnam, Xi addressed the remark in aContinue Reading
OTTAWA: US President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday (Nov 30) he had a “very productive” meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which they discussed border-related issues and other topics including trade, energy, and the Arctic. Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday evening and had dinner with Trump atContinue Reading
A political source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters that Azerbaijan had invited Armenian environmental agency officials to COP29 as observers, enabling them to “potentially join in exterior discussions and possibly hold diplomatic meetings.” The authorities are denied access to complete member states ‘ proceedings because the Taliban areContinue Reading