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The story so far: In addition to being a tax haven and celebrated for its chocolates, watches, and army knives, Switzerland is synonymous with neutrality, a policy that originated from the post-Napolean turbulence in Europe in the early 1800s. While the continent and the world went through several upheavals in the following decades. Switzerland held…
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The next United Nations climate change conference, COP31, will be held in Antalya in Türkiye in November this year. Türkiye will be hosting the event, with its environment minister Murat Kurum serving as COP31 president. Australia will oversee the negotiations process, with its energy and climate change minister Chris Bowen as the vice-president of COP31….
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. File | Photo Credit: AP South Korea’s presidential office has demanded an apology from Ukraine for denying an agreement to keep the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul confidential. The incident came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the United Nations that his country had…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah speaks during the Autumn session of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, in Srinagar, on Friday, September 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Imran Nissar As the resolution on Statehood brought by J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is set to be discussed in the assembly on Monday (September 28, 2026),…
The organisers announced on September 26 that the agitation would be deferred to October 2, coinciding with Gandhi Jayanti, and would be held as a peaceful “satyagraha” outside Patrakar Bhavan near S M Joshi Bridge. File | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) aspirants have postponed their sit-in protest planned in Pune on…
Following the final Ganesh idol immersions on Anant Chaturdashi on September 25, 2026, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation undertook an extensive clean-up operation along immersion routes, roads and other public spaces across the city. File. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The BMC has collected around 934 metric tonnes of nirmalya during this year’s Ganeshotsav, while a…
Smoke rises over the headquarters of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine’s largest telecoms companies, hit by a Russian jet drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile service provider on Sunday (September 27, 2026), the company told…
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As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? The answer may lie in the companies’ efforts to score political goals ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and the money top artificial intelligence labs and their investors stand to make…
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with China’s President Xi Jinping on the steps of the National Archives Museum in Washington. File. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the…
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Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday (September 27, 2026) fielded its Chief Ministers and stepped up its attack on the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the Congress, and its allies over the special intensive revision (SIR), accusing…
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