Tehran, Iran – Flash flooding in southern and parts of western Iran has left at least 23 people dead and more than 200 injured, according to news agencies citing officials, as the government urged people to cancel trips and warned of more rains. The Ministry of Interior advised Iranians on Monday evening to cancel any trips and take the warnings seriously with the Disaster Management… Read more »
Iran will respond firmly to any Israeli naval action against its oil shipments, Iran’s defence minister said, a week after Israel warned its navy could act against what it called Iranian oil smuggling to evade US sanctions. US President Donald Trump last year quit a nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed some sanctions, aiming to cut Tehran’s oil exports to zero. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told… Read more »
and Iran have launched a joint military operation against Kurdish rebels along Turkey’s eastern border, according to an official. Suleyman Soylu, Turkey’s interior minister, said the offensive on Monday targeted the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “As of 8:00 this morning, we started an operation with Iran aimed at the PKK on our eastern border,” he told a crowd in the Mediterranean city… Read more »
The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on a network of companies and individuals in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates it said was transferring billions of dollars and euros to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard. The US Treasury said it was blacklisting 25 people and entities, including front companies based in the three countries, associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of… Read more »
The Indian government has claimed by their measures to have electrified every single village in India. For a village to be considered to have electricity, at least ten percent of the households must have electricity and all of the major buildings such as schools, churches, and hospitals must have electricity. Although all of India’s villages now have electricity they are… Read more »
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said last year that his government had reached its target of providing every village in India with electricity. “Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be changed forever,” Mr Modi tweeted in April 2018. In the run-up to the Indian election, which gets under way on 11… Read more »
KARACHI: A fresh case of an underage Hindu girl being abducted in Pakistan‘s Sindhprovince has come to the fore, even as uproar continued over the alleged kidnapping, forcible conversion and marriages of two teenage girls from the minority community. According to a handout issued by the Sindh Information Department, Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal took note of a news that went viral… Read more »
At least 13 civilians were killed, mostly children, in an air strike by “international forces” in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz late last week, the United Nations said Monday.ADVERTISING The strike happened between late Friday and early Saturday in support of ground operations conducted by pro-government forces fighting against Taliban militants in the area. “Initial fact-finding indicates that 10 of those… Read more »
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The Social and Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Ever since 2006, China has been the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. China joined several other countries in signing the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement to combat global warming and climate change. While China has spent years trying to decrease their emissions from coal, they are actively increasing the amount… Read more »