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South Korea: Impeached President Yoon blocks a probe into his corruption

January 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing political high drama in a democratic South Korea, anti-corruption investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with the presidential security guards, the media reported on Friday. The continuing crisis has paralyzed the economic powerhouse nation’s politics and witnessed two heads […]

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Roving Periscope: Chinmoy denied bail as ‘East Pak’ apes Islamabad and Beijing

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Three days after Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman described Dhaka’s relations with New Delhi as “give-and-take” and with Beijing as a “partner in development”, a Bangladesh court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested on November 25, 2024, on trumped up “sedition” […]

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Energy: Winter chill for Europe as Russia suspends gas transit via Ukraine

January 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Ukraine refusing to renew a 2019 energy transit agreement through its war-torn territory, Russia’s energy behemoth Gazprom on Wednesday suspended the passage of natural gas to Europe, threatening to worsen the Continent’s struggling economies as the New Year 2025 unfolded. The Ukrainian move came to pressurize Europe—and the United […]

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Frenemies: Wary of Trump, Xi reminds Putin of China’s ‘fidelity’ to Russia!

December 31, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Twenty days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the United States’ 47th President, and his potentially regrowing proximity to President Vladimir Putin, a wary President Xi Jinping has reminded Moscow that China and Russia are “along the right path.” China and Russia are moving forward hand-in-hand along the “right path” […]

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Roving Periscope: A beneficiary himself, Elon Musk defends “skilled foreign immigrants”

December 31, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: An H-1B visa beneficiary himself from South Africa, the world’s richest man Elon Musk, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, is now at loggerheads with other Republican Party leaders who are supporting the US president-designate’s plans to overhaul the immigration policy to Make America Great Again (MAGA). With his support for […]

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Deportation: The US needs $86 billion to start deporting millions of illegal entrants!

December 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump’s border security man Tom Homan is set to seek a special USD 86 billion budget from the US Congress early next year to launch mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, as promised by the incoming 47th President of the US in his election campaign this year. Tom Homan, […]

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Roving Periscope: St Trump wants Christmas ‘gifts’ from Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal!

December 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Finding Alaska unviable to retain, Russia sold the icy desert to the United States on March 30, 1867, for a mere USD 7.2 million (now, the equivalent of nearly USD 150 million). In recent years, Russia has wanted to buy Alaska back. The US, on the other hand, is not […]

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WHO: Trump team to withdraw the US from global health watchdog

December 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump’s team is preparing to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) which may cripple the global health watchdog’s resources and finances, the media reported on Tuesday. Washington may make this decision on the day of the new President’s inauguration, which is scheduled for January 20, […]

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Hasina: Bangladesh asks India to extradite the deposed PM to Dhaka

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Under pressure from Islamist outfits, who now control the interim government led by “Chief Advisor” Muhammed Yunus, Bangladesh on Monday officially asked India to send back the deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who has been staying in the country since August. Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest […]

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Family-as-State: Now, Bashar’s British-born wife files for divorce in a Russian court!

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For a former medical practitioner Bashar al-Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned- Syrian dictator, it may be a double whammy. He not only lost power and pelf in Damascus two weeks ago, and fled to Russia for asylum, he may now lose even his family: his wife of 24 years has filed for […]