London, Feb 3 (IANS) Britain imposed another package of sanctions against ten individuals and an organization, blaming their role in dealing with the recent unrest in Iran, according to a statement by the country’s foreign office.Those sanctioned include Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, Police Chief in Lorestan Province Mohammad Reza Hashemifar, Public Security Police Chief Seyed Majid Feiz Jafari, Commander of Fars Province in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Yadollah Bouali, a…
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Milan (Italy), Feb 1 (IANS) Curling at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will open with the mixed doubles event on February 4 and conclude with the women’s team gold medal match on February 22, spanning nearly three weeks of competition.All three events, men’s team, women’s team, and mixed doubles, will be contested at the Cortina Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo, a northern Italian town in the Dolomitic Alps. The venue was originally built for the 1956 Winter Olympic Games.The men’s an…
United Nations, Jan 30 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that Asia is underrepresented on the Security Council’s roster of permanent members, and this should be rectified.Speaking to reporters on Friday (India time) about his priorities for the year, he pressed for reforming the Council because “the centrality of the peace and security system lies in the UN and within” it.While as the secretary-general he could not say what the reformed Council should be, his personal opinio…
The Hague, Jan 19 (IANS) Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel on Sunday condemned the US imposition of tariffs on European countries over Greenland, calling it an act of “blackmail.”The minister said on WNL op Zondag, a Sunday talk show on the Dutch public broadcaster NPO, that it was unacceptable to use trade tariffs as a tool to exert political or military pressure, describing the measure as “blackmail.”Van Weel said there is still room for the measure to be withdrawn before it takes effect o…
Brussels, Jan 18 (IANS) Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, urged the European Commission to trigger the EU’s anti-coercion instrument after US President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on a group of European countries over Greenland.”It is also now high time to use the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) … and formulate a clear EU response,” Lange said in a LinkedIn post, urging the Commission to start the ACI procedure immediately, Xinhua n…
United Nations, Jan 6 (IANS) Facing criticism at the Security Council from allies and adversaries for capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the US has defended it as a “a law enforcement operation” and not a war. At the Council’s emergency meeting on Monday, France and Britain, US allies with permanent membership on the Council, lobbed mild criticism at Washington from an international law perspective. The other two permanent members, China and Russia, lashed out at the US, demanding …
Phnom Penh, Jan 1 (IANS) Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archaeological Park welcomed a total of 955,131 international visitors in 2025, a year-on-year decrease of 6.7 per cent, the site’s operator said on Thursday. The UNESCO-listed world heritage site earned 44.7 million US dollars in revenue from ticket sales last year, also down 6.5 per cent, said the press release from the state-owned Angkor Enterprise.Main sources of foreign tourists to the park were the United States, Britain, France, China and S…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The British occupation of India was built upon a great lie: the assertion that foreign dominion served the “welfare and happiness of the inhabitants”. The East India Company (EIC), a vast trading corporation that had morphed into a territorial sovereign, continually boasted of establishing “courts of justice” and creating “new and valuable property” for the natives, claiming to have replaced a chaotic, precarious past.Yet, this veneer of benevolence barely concealed a sy…