As the country's top security official, Lam led the communist party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's 'blazing furnace' anti-corruption probe that has rocked Vietnam's political establishment. Several politicians, including Lam's predecessor Vo Van Thuong, have stepped down due to the campaign.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked PM Modi for support towards the Jewish country after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and welcomed him as an emerging global leader. On the occasion, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra condemned the attack and said India too suffered from cross-border terrorism.
Israel officials seized camera and broadcasting equipment from the Associated Press on Tuesday as it was airing a live video of Gaza, accusing it of violating a new media law. The move sparked intense backlash from the Biden administration, journalism organisations and the United Nations.
Israeli authorities confiscated a camera and broadcasting gear owned by The Associated Press (AP) in southern Israel on Tuesday, alleging that the American news outlet breached a recent media regulation by supplying footage to Al Jazeera.
A group of armed assailants launched a late-night assault on isolated villages in northcentral Nigeria, resulting in the deaths of at least 40 villagers. No entity has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack.
Mourners in black began gathering Tuesday for days of funerals and processions for Iran's late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash.
The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was criticised by the Sri Lankan government for allegedly playing electoral politics by accusing Sri Lanka of genocide during its conflict with the LTTE, which ended in 2009.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest.
Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defence Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial. The jury was sent home until May 28, when closing arguments are expected.
An elderly British man died and more than two dozen passengers were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight from London was struck by severe turbulence and plunged 6,000 feet in the span of some a few minutes Tuesday over the Indian Ocean.
"Suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing a seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling, some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it," recalled an ill-fated Singapore Airlines passenger.
The Singapore Airlines flight was cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet. Just after 0800 GMT, the Boeing 777 suddenly and sharply pitched down to 31,000 feet over the span of some three minutes, the data shows.
Singapore Airlines says a person has died aboard and others were injured when a London-Singapore flight encountered severe turbulence. The airline said the aircraft was a Boeing 777-300ER with a total of 211 passengers and 18 crew on board.
Thousands of people walked through the Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday to honour Raisi, his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others killed in the helicopter. Raisi, 63, was a hardline leader tipped to become Iran's next Supreme Leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, waging a shadow war for decades that broke open into a tit-for-tat drone and missile attacks last month, escalating tensions in the Middle East. These tensions have fuelled speculation of Israel's involvement in Ebrahim Raisi's tragic death on Sunday.
Police confirmed that the 17-year-old rapper died due to an "accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound" while filming a social video. While police did not disclose the identity of the individual, separate footage on social media identified him as the rapper Rylo Huncho.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan requested arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes. If these warrants are issued, it would mark an unprecedented intervention in the ongoing war in Gaza and deepen Israel's international isolation.
Sri Lanka's foreign minister Ali Sabry affirmed that its economic relationship with India continues to expand across several sectors and pledged to not let anybody threaten New Delhi's security threats. He also expressed Sri Lanka's desire to join the BRICS group and sought India's assistance.
The US Department of State said it is deeply committed to protecting and promoting universal respect for the freedom of religion. These remarks came after an observation made in a New York Times report on the Muslim population in India.
The British government in 2022 ordered the extradition of Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a move thoroughly opposed by many of his supporters. Assange faces 18 charges in the US, mostly of espionage, for releasing hundreds of thousands of classified US documents.
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