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TOKYO/NEW DELHI: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succumbed to his injuries on Friday after he was shot early in the morning. The ex-Prime Minister was in Japan’s Nara city for a campaign speech. He was shot in the neck and the chest. The suspect had been a member of the maritime self-defence force for […]

TOKYO/ NEW DELHI: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot, and apparently wounded, while delivering a speech at an event ahead of Sunday’s upper house elections, according to NHK, the public broadcaster. The campaign event was in the city of Nara in western Japan. Abe was delivering a stump speech when the apparent sound […]

SCHLOSS ELMAU (GERMANY): Prime Narendra Modi is known for championing India’s traditional arts and crafts on the global stage through gifts to world leaders. It was no different at the G7 Summit in Germany as PM Modi showcased Uttar Pradesh’s government’s ‘One District One Product’ (ODOP) programme through various gifts to the leaders attending the […]

Shooting your own foot Let us begin with a clip from an article in CBS titled “Russia’s Ruble is the strongest currency in the world this year”: “Commodity prices are currently sky-high, and even though there is a drop in the volume of Russian exports… the increase in commodity prices more than compensates for these […]

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos revealed in February 2021 that Greece and Turkey had almost gone to war three times in the summer of 2020 due to the crisis with the Turkish Oruç Reis research vessel violating Greece’s territorial waters. Turkey’s aggression was quiet in the summer of 2021 as the country was in the […]