EU formally bans gas and diesel car sales from 2035

London (IANS) In a move to boost the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), the European Parliament has approved the law to ban the sale of new gas and diesel cars in the EU, starting in 2035.

The new legislation sets the path towards zero…

Russia's marine brigade of 5,000 men almost entirely destroyed in one of heaviest losses

Kiev (IANS) Russia has suffered some of the heaviest military losses in a single battle since the start of the war in Ukraine after elite units repeatedly tried to storm a fortified coal mining town in broad daylight, media reports said.

Ukraine…

Space shooting spree targets were not aliens or ETs: US

Washington (IANS) The US does not quite know what it has shot off the skies in the last three instances, but officials assured Americans on Monday that they were not alien airships.

The first object downed was a Chinese spy balloon on February…

Questions about spate of high-altitude objects shot down over North America

Washington (IANS) U.S. military officials said they are unsure how three unidentified flying objects shot out of the skies of North America had been able to stay aloft.

President Joe Biden ordered another object - the fourth in total this month…

Death toll crosses 30,000 in Turkey, Syria as incredible rescues bring hope

Ankara/Damascus (IANS) The death toll from the twin earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria last week has climbed to 29,605 and 1,414 respectively.

The number of wounded, meanwhile, rose to more than 80,000 in Turkey and 2,349 in Syria, according…

System can't work if authority lies with army chief and responsibility lies with PM: Imran Khan

Lahore (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan believes that a country's system fails if its elected government doesn't have both responsibility and authority, a local media outlet reported.

The former Pakistani Prime…

Turkey earthquake failures leave Erdogan looking vulnerable

London (IANS) Turkey's most devastating earthquake since 1939 has raised big questions about whether such a large-scale tragedy could have been avoided and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government could have done more to save lives,…

US quicker to down flying 'object' than Chinese balloon

Washington (IANS) A US fighter jet shot down an "object" flying over Alaska on Friday, in a new -- but much swifter -- repeat of the downing of a Chinese spy balloon last week that threw ties between the two countries into a new crisis.

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Turkey-Syria quake toll surpasses 23,800, search efforts continue

Ankara/Damascus (IANS) As search and rescue efforts continued for a sixth straight day on Saturday to find more survivors, the number of people killed following the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has reached at…

Alarm bells in Pakistan as reserves drop below $3 bn

Karachi (IANS) Pakistans foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank decreased by 5.5 per cent or $170 million to $2.91 billion in the week ending February 3, the State Bank of Pakistan said on Thursday, deepening the economic woes of the crisis-stricken…