Pakistan's finance minister said late on Thursday that a staff level agreement for a crucial bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund was "very close" and expected in the next 24 hours. Islamabad is racing against time to unlock at least $1.1 billion under the lender's ninth review of a $6.5-billion Extended Fund Facility agreed in 2019. The programme expires on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/CfLRaJ3
Russia's top generals, including armed forces chief Valery Gerasimov and deputy commander Sergei Surovikin, have disappeared from public view following a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at overthrowing the top brass. Unconfirmed reports suggest that at least one person has been arrested. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/CvwoPKy
Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to project a sense of normalcy and assert his authority following the recent mutiny by Wagner mercenaries. Putin returned to Moscow and attended a forum, mingling with locals in contrast to the strict Covid-19 protocols usually imposed on meetings with him. However, questions remain about the extent of knowledge within the military and security services regarding the rebellion. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/OHDxGo5
The killing of 17-year-old Nael Tuesday during a traffic check in Nanterre, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighborhoods around France. Clashes first erupted Tuesday night in Nanterre and nearby, and the government deployed 2,000 police to maintain order Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FMpvK4
Taiwan has an 'enormous appetite' to expand ties with India and firming up the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides will be a "big encouragement" for Taiwanese companies to set up manufacturing bases in India, Taiwan foreign minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said. Wu said Taiwan has been encouraging its companies that no longer find the Chinese market profitable to shift their production facilities to India. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/13DEOQe
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/vxrA4sp
Lightning strikes across Pakistan's eastern Punjab province killed at least 10 people, officials said Monday as heavy pre-monsoon rains lashed the region. The strikes on Sunday mainly took place in the Sialkot and Sheikhupura districts of Punjab. Lightning strikes are frequent across Pakistan, especially in Punjab's mountainous areas and plains. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/iBNCsOJ
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the country this year, a war monitor said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/Oawkcp0
Cash-starved Pakistan has introduced a number of changes to its budget for fiscal year 2023-24 in a bid to revive the International Monetary Fund’s programme and secure a stalled $1.2 billion tranche, the country’s finance minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Saturday. Addressing the National Assembly, the minister said Pakistan and the IMF held detailed negotiations as a last effort to complete the pending ninth review. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/Tvod4UB
The head of Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin announced Saturday that he was inside the army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, and that his fighters controlled the city's military sites. Prigozhin earlier said his forces had crossed into Russia from the Ukrainian front, vowing to topple Russia's military leadership, saying he and thousands of his fighters were "ready to die." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/tc8zCaY
A report released on Friday by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that US intelligence agencies could not determine whether researchers who fell sick in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 were infected with Covid-19, which subsequently spread globally. None of the intelligence released conclusively identifies lab-related work as the cause of the pandemic, and intelligence officials have said they are still seeking information from China. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/b1JCI6k
The US Navy detected an implosion at the site where the submersible headed to the Titanic wreck site lost communication, and this information was immediately shared with the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard later confirmed that the submersible, called the Titan, suffered a "catastrophic implosion", killing all five crew members who were on board. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/QSTEGxk
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif met IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Thursday for release of halted funds ahead of the credit line’s expiry next week. The Paris pitch came amid claims back home that Shehbaz’s finance minister Ishaq Dar slapped a reporter who asked him questions on the stalled funds. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/aFX5AlS
The race against time to find a submersible that disappeared on its way to the Titanic wreckage site entered a new phase of desperation on Thursday morning as the final hours of oxygen possibly left on board the tiny vessel ticked off the clock. The area of the North Atlantic where the Titan vanished Sunday is also prone to fog and stormy conditions, making it an extremely challenging environment to conduct a search-and-rescue mission. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/1l8G7Pe
"A leak of liquefied petroleum gas... caused an explosion during the operation of a barbecue restaurant," state news agency Xinhua said of the Wednesday evening blast, citing the regional Communist Party committee. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/8eBrdIv
Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic on Wednesday concentrated their efforts on a remote area of the North Atlantic where undersea noises have been detected, though officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/YpoBvU5
A blast ripped through a street near Paris' historic Latin Quarter on Wednesday and rescuers were searching for two missing people feared buried under the rubble of a building that partially collapsed in the explosion. The explosion tore through Rue Saint-Jacques, which runs from the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral to the Sorbonne University, in the late afternoon, injuring at least 37 people, four of whom were fighting for their lives in hospital. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/e0a9NWw
China hit back on Wednesday after US President Joe Biden referred to President Xi Jinping as a "dictator", saying the remarks were absurd and a provocation, in an unexpected spat immediately following efforts by both sides to lower tensions. Biden also said China "has real economic difficulties". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/eAb8g41
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival to the United States on an official state visit, John Kirby, NSC coordinator for strategic communications, said on Tuesday that Washington supported "India's emergence as a great power". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/RMlhwmd
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during his visit to Beijing, raised concerns about People's Republic of China's human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as individual cases, the US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement on Monday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/SVjndom