Three years ago, Chinese Premier Li Qiang took on a role largely stripped of its former glory. Now, in a surprise twist, he’s becoming President Xi Jinping’s top emissary on the world stage. When China’s No. 2 official steps out in Johannesburg at the first Group of Twenty leaders’ meeting ever held in Africa this…
The United States is working with both sides in Sudan’s war for a possible humanitarian truce, a U.S. envoy told The Associated Press on Monday, while International Criminal Court prosecutors said they are trying to preserve evidence from last week’s rampage through a besieged city in the Darfur region. The fall of el-Fasher heralds a…
Updated on: Oct 17, 2025 04:25 pm IST The Kremlin said the content of Putin’s recent phone call with Trump must remain out of the media. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Hungary soon for talks with US President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine, despite facing an International Criminal…
The lawsuit accuses ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of turning the court into “a branch office of the terrorist organization,” Hamas. The families of three hostages currently being held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas – Avinatan Or, Eitan Mor, and Omri Miran, filed a lawsuit for NIS 20 million against International Criminal Court Chief…
Leaders of the BRICS group of major emerging economies are meeting in the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for a two-day summit. The BRICS acronym is derived from the initial letters of the founding member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In early 2024, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt and the United…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will not travel to Brazil for the BRICS Summit scheduled for early next month. Although there is no official announcement yet, media reports suggested that Xi plans to skip the BRICS Summit, which, if confirmed, will be his first-ever absence from the meeting of the bloc…
A former UN secretary general has called for an overhaul of the United Nations to better confront global challenges as “some powerful nations” seek to undermine the institution. Ban Ki-moon, who was secretary general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016, said in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza…