Category: Events

A local walks past a mural featuring oil pumps and wells in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) When US President Donald Trump floated the idea of Washington receiving millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela, it sounded like a throwback to an older energy playbook: pump more oil, cut fuel prices,...

Corey Perry (Credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Kings said that forward Corey Perry had been given non-roster playing status, which means he can leave the team to deal with a family issue, and the company said that Perry is going home because someone in his family is sick, but they didn’t say...

The United States Consulate General in Mumbai, on Thursday, issued a cautionary advisory for B1/B2 visitor visa holders, warning that engaging in unauthorised employment could result in deportation and even a permanent ban on future entry into the United States.In a post on LinkedIn, the Consulate General asked the travelers who are the B1/B2 holders...

The US seizure of Nicolas Maduro and control over Venezuela’s oil marks a significant blow to China’s influence in Latin America. This move, rerouting billions in crude to the US, undermines Beijing’s decade-long economic diplomacy and its strategy of championing sovereignty. It signals that economic ties don’t guarantee protection against US military power. When US...

Russia on Thursday attacked Ukraine and its European allies calling them an “axis of war”, warning that the agreements reached between them to deploy a peacekeeping force were far from anything Moscow could accept for ending the conflict.“The new militarist declarations of the so-called Coalition of the Willing and the Kyiv regime together form a...

The weapons and military units on display in China’s major parade (Image credit: AP) China, one of the world’s largest arms exporter, has endured a series of humiliating battlefield exposures that have shattered its image as a supplier of reliable defence systems. From Operation Sindoor‘s rout of Pakistani defenses to the swift US raid on...

Renee Nicole Good lived a few blocks from where she died. She was 37, a US-born citizen, a poet, and a mother of three. On a winter morning in south Minneapolis, during a large federal immigration enforcement operation, she was shot and killed by an officer from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while seated...

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and one of the one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has now joined the list people opposing the proposed California wealth tax. Hoffman has strongly opposed California’s proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Hoffman said that the...

Picture from X Bangladesh police on Wednesday arrested former madrasa teacher Yasin Arafat, the prime accused in the killing of Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, according to local media reports.Yasin was arrested in Sarulia, within the Demra police station jurisdiction, with support from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.According to local media, Yasin, 25, son of Gazi...

FIDE and Freestyle Chess agree terms on World Championship (Photos by Michal Walusza and ChessBase India) NEW DELHI: Late on Wednesday night, Emil Sutovsky, the chief executive officer (CEO) of FIDE, the International Chess Federation, chose a phrase heavy with symbolism.“Burying the hatchet!” he wrote on X, announcing that FIDE and Freestyle Chess had finally...