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Dutch govt pledges 2.5 bn euro for Ukraine; Zelensky to address US senators

The Dutch government has allocated 2.5 billion euros (nearly $2.7 billion) to support Ukraine in 2024, the country's foreign minister announced during a visit on Tuesday. The announcement comes as the 21-month war drags into another winter and concerns grow that Kyiv's war effort may falter without continued Western support. Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot sought to assure Ukrainian authorities, telling journalists after a meeting with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: "My main message to Minister Kuleba was the same as to all of you here. Be assured of our support. Bruins Slot said her country opened a training centre for F-16s in Romania on Nov 13 and is working with the US, Denmark and other countries to see that Ukraine can deploy the fighter jets as soon as possible. Your security is our security, she said. She added that the meeting also touched on Ukraine's aspiration to become a member of the European Union: Your future is with us, she said. Kuleba said while me

Prince Harry challenges UK govt on removal of security when he moved to US

Prince Harry is challenging on Tuesday the British government's decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States. The Duke of Sussex said he wants protection when he visits home and claimed it's partly because an aggressive press jeopardizes his safety and that of his family. The three-day hearing scheduled to begin in London's High Court is the latest in a string of Harry's legal cases that have kept London judges busy as he takes on the UK government and the British tabloid media. It was not clear if he would attend Tuesday's hearing. Harry failed to persuade a different judge earlier this year that he should be able to privately pay for London's police force to guard him when he comes to town. A judge denied that offer after a government lawyer argued that officers shouldn't be used as private bodyguards for the wealthy. Harry, the youngest son of King Charles III, said he did not feel

India, US have established mature relationship, says US Deputy NSA Finer

The US and India have established a mature relationship that enables both sides to identify opportunities and work through differences, US Principal Deputy NSA Jonathan Finer said on Monday. In an address at a conclave, he said the US and India have a "complicated history" and they have not always been "wholly aligned". Finer said there are many "difficult issues" that remain in the relationship "right up to the present day". At the same time, he said there is a bipartisan view in the US that both countries must seize some important opportunities that the world presents to the two sides, both geopolitically and economically. The senior White House official is on a visit to India that comes days after American prosecutors linked an Indian official to a man charged with conspiring to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil. "I think the US and India have a complicated history. We have not always been wholly aligned. We have not always found it easy to work ...

Henry Kissinger: Flawed genius who will be missed more in China than the US

Kissinger acknowledged India's civilisational impulse and remarkable assimilative power while retaining its identity, but he remained in thrall to China

US charges Nikhil Gupta in a plot to kill Khalistan leader Pannun

Who is Nikhil Gupta, arrested for planning the assassination of Khalistani leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.Watch the video to know about the man behind the plot

Rosalynn Carter set for funeral, burial in the town where she was born

Rosalynn Carter will receive her final farewells on Wednesday in the same tiny town where she was born and that served as a home base as she and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, climbed to the White House and spent four decades thereafter as global humanitarians. The former first lady, who died November 19 at the age of 96, will have her hometown funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where she and her husband spent decades welcoming guests when they were not travelling. The service comes on the last of a three-day public tribute that began on Monday in nearby Americus and continued in Atlanta. Rosalynn Carter will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband, the 99-year-old former president who first met his wife of 77 years when she was a newborn, a few days after his mother delivered her. She was born just a few years after women got the right to vote in this small town in the South where people were still plowing their fields behind mules, ...

Kim Jong-un labels military spy satellite as 'deploying of a space guard'

Kim's remark came during his visit to the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA), according to the official space agency of North Korea

Diaspora panel in US seeks to include Pannun and SFJ on no-fly list

A diaspora panel in the US has sought to include designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and his banned organisation Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) on the no-fly list for issuing video messages threatening people flying Air India. Participants of a panel discussion "Indians in Canada under Threat of Terror and Hate Crimes', organised by the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS), a group of Indian-Americans and Indo-Canadians, asserted that it's time for the governments to take strong action against the separatist Sikh leader from the SFJ. The SFJ is a US-based organisation banned by the Government of India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for its anti-India activities. In July 2020, Pannun was also declared an "individual terrorist" under the UAPA for promoting secessionism and allegedly encouraging Punjabi Sikh youth to take up arms. "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has misrepresented freedom of expression for freedom of terror and his

China seeks to be friends with US, won't fight 'hot war': Xi Jinping

Biden held a solo news conference after four hours of talks with Xi on the outskirts of San Francisco

Much ado about little

Biden-Xi talks yield modest outcomes

What is LockBit, the group that hacked world's biggest bank

LockBit has gained infamy for its recent attack on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), disrupting US Treasury market trades. Watch the video to know about this group >

US shutdown risk eased in stopgap plan offered by House Speaker Johnson

The proposal, which omits new funding for aid to Israel and Ukraine, would extend funding for some government agencies to January and others to February

Ranbir-starrer 'Animal' to release in over 888 screens in North America

Produced by T-Series and directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Ranbir Kapoor and Rashmika Mandanna-starrer 'Animal' was initially set to release on Aug 1 but is now postponed to Dec 1, 2023

Biden's AI executive order: Weapons to watermarks, pros and cons

US President Joe Biden recently signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to balance the needs of cutting-edge tech companies with national security and consumer >

US mass shooting: 22 dead in Maine; killer still at large

Police in Maine are pursuing a suspect in a mass shooting that has left at least 22 people dead in a pair of incidents in the city of Lewiston. Watch the video to know more.

H-1B visa: What will change, what won't

The US has unveiled a proposal promising a transformative shift in the H-1B visa lottery system. Watch the video for the details >

Global stances: Nations backing Israel vs Hamas in the conflict

As the conflict rages between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, countries around the world have come in solidarity with Israel while many others have backed the Palestinian armed group. >

The Biden govt could shut down on October 1: Here's all you need to know

The US Congress is at a crossroads days before a disruptive federal shutdown that would halt paychecks for many of the federal government's roughly 2 million employees

Asian Paints co-founder & non-executive director Ashwin Dani passes away

Dani embarked on his career in 1967 as a Development Chemist with Inmont Corp, now known as BASF, an industrial coatings manufacturer based in Detroit, USA

US weekly jobless claims at 8 month low, unemployment numbers falling

Demand for labor is slowing, overall labor market conditions have remained tight despite higher interest rates