International News
Modi’s year of setbacks leaves India vulnerable in perilous 2025
By: Bloomberg 19th December 2024 At the outset of 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was riding a wave of international acclaim and anticipating an election campaign that looked... →
New HIV prevention drug could reach poorest countries by 2025, says health official
By: Reuters 18th December 2024 A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told... →
Israel sees signs of breakthrough in talks over Gaza ceasefire
By: Bloomberg 17th December 2024 Israeli officials say a ceasefire in Gaza is a more realistic prospect than at any time in the past year, suggesting a long-awaited deal to free... →
Indonesia's Prabowo heads to Egypt for D-8 economic summit
By: Reuters 17th December 2024 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto headed to Egypt on Tuesday to attend meetings of a group of eight major Muslim developing countries, known as... →
China, Egypt agree on need to promote peace in Middle East
By: Reuters 13th December 2024 China's foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the... →
Russian power creeps across West Africa with Equatorial Guinea mission
By: Reuters 12th December 2024 Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told Reuters, showing... →
HSBC, World Bank's IFC launch $1bn trade finance programme for emerging markets
By: Reuters 12th December 2024 HSBC and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) will jointly provide funding to trade transactions valued at up to $1-billion, in... →
ICC suspect ordered murder and rape in Sudan's Darfur, judges hear
By: Reuters 11th December 2024 The International Criminal Court's (ICC's) chief prosecutor told judges on Wednesday that the suspect in the first trial examining war crimes in... →