Iranian authorities detained British-Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert after discovering she was in a relationship with an Israeli, which fuelled baseless suspicions that she was a spy, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Friday, citing multiple diplomatic and government sources. The newspaper said that once Iran found out about her partner, officials moved to arrest Moore-Gilbert at Tehran airport in September 2018. The Cambridge-educated expert in Middle East politics was sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage, allegations she has always denied. Australian government sources, who asked not to be named as they had not been authorised to discuss…
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With an increasing number of Coronavirus cases in the national capital, doctors across the city have flagged the high number of patients who initially ignore the mild symptoms and later have to be rushed to hospitals as their condition worsens. Many hospitals in the national capital have reported receiving patients who neither paid attention to mild symptoms of infection nor got themselves tested and were later admitted to the hospitals as their condition deteriorated including high grade fever, severe body ache, muscle aches, lung fibrosis, and cardiac involvement among others, the Indian Express reported. Dr Atul Kakar, vice chairman, Department…
South Korea and China have agreed to cooperate on stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme and to prepare for a visit to Seoul by Chinese President Xi Jinping, following high-level talks. South Korean President Moon Jae-in met China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, late on Thursday, and expressed his “gratitude” to Beijing for its “constructive role and cooperation” in the Korea peace process, according to Yonhap news agency. He said achieving denuclearisation on the peninsula can be achieved in “a phased and synchronised” manner to prevent “war and chaos”. Wang arrived in the South Korean capital late on Wednesday, after…
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, the daughter of the late former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and former president Asif Ali Zardari will get engaged to US-based businessman Mahmood Chaudhry on Friday. The news was announced by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) through its official Twitter account. “President Asif Ali Zardari is pleased to announce, with the grace of God, the engagement of his and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari with Mr Mahmood Chaudhry on November 27, 2020,” PPP media cell said. According to a report in Dawn, Chaudhry’s family ‘also has business interests in Dubai’. The engagement is…
The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly reshaping global geopolitics and diplomacy and a number of countries are seizing the opportunity to take a couple of tough decisions that they would have otherwise faced difficulty in implementing. In a recent move to ensure its national security and law and order, the UAE government, through an order issued on November 18 has banned workers from 13 nations from entering the country till further orders. Citing a source, a story of Al Jazeera highlighted, “the UAE had temporarily stopped issuing new visas to Afghans, Pakistanis, and citizens of several other countries over security concerns.”…
When 14-year-old Tyler Gordon shared a video of himself creating a portrait of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, he only urged people to retweet it so it reaches her. And, it did! However, what followed next is something that the young artist could have never imagined. He received a call from Harris herself.A few days ago, on November 23, Tyler tweeted, “@KamalaHarris My name is Tyler Gordon and I’m 14 years old and I live in the Bay Area! I painted this picture of you and I hope you like it!!! Please Rt and tag her so that she can see…
President Donald Trump said Thursday for the first time that he would leave the White House if Joe Biden is officially confirmed the winner of the US election, even as he railed against the “rigged” vote.Trump has made an unprecedented attempt to defy the results of the election by refusing to concede, spreading wild theories about stolen ballots and launching baseless legal challenges that have been thrown out by courts.Answering his first questions from reporters since the November 3 vote, the president moved closer to accepting that he would serve only one term in office before Biden is inaugurated on January 20.When asked if he would…
Narendra Modi on Thursday mooted a KYC drive–‘Know Your Constitution’–to popularise the document similar to the KYC (know your customer) practice in the corporate world even as the union law minister lamented the use of terms like “judicial barbarism” to attack the courts. PM Modi made the suggestion on the occasion of the Constitution day celebrations during which Attorney General K K Venugopal called for ensuring that justice delivery system is able to “wipe every tear from every eye”. Venugopal also wanted urgent steps to fill up vacancies in the subordinate judiciary and to deal with the problem of huge…
With preparations for vaccine development and distribution reaching an advanced stage in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will embark on a three-city tour to take stock of the Covid-19 vaccine development work. According to reports, the visit will start from Zydus Biotech Park on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Modi is expected to arrive at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport around 9am. From there, he will head towards Changodar in a helicopter. Zydus Cadila’s Vaccine Technology Centre is located at Changodar Park where the pharma company is developing its Covid-19 vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D. From Ahmedabad, Modi is expected to fly…
Australia won the toss and opted to bat first against India in the first One Day International (ODI) here at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. The much-anticipated India’s tour of Australia will get underway as both sides lock horns in the first of the three-match ODI series. India begin their ICC Cricket World Cup Super League campaign as the men in Blue resume international cricket. The first two games of the ODI series will be played in Sydney with the action shifting to Canberra for the final game. India last played ODI cricket earlier this year in New Zealand,…