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South Korea: Post-martial law debacle, President Yoon may face impeachment

December 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In an unprecedented move, the police in South Korea, which is threatened with ‘extinction’ by the turn of the century because of an alarming rate of depopulation, has launched an investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol’s extreme step to impose emergency and martial law, which he had to withdraw within […]

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Roving Periscope: His PM ousted, French President Macron faces an uncertain future

December 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the united Opposition, furious at budget proposals, toppling Prime Minister Michel Barnier within two months of taking power in Paris in September, French President Emmanuel Macron’s own political future may become uncertain ahead of his potential re-election bid in 2027. As Donald Trump re-enters the White House for a […]

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Africa: Namibia elects first woman President, Nandi-Ndaitwah

December 4, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Republic of Namibia, formerly part of apartheid South Africa, has elected its first woman President, Nandi-Ndaitwah, the media reported on Wednesday. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, won with 57 percent of the vote, contrary to predictions that she might be forced into a run-off, results released by the country’s electoral commission […]

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Tariffs in Trump 2.0: Trade diversion may benefit India with export growth

December 4, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President-elect Donald Trump pledging to impose high tariffs on three of its key trading partners, including China, India is expected to get huge export opportunities, something its domestic industry should prepare to tap into, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Ayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said on Wednesday. Last […]

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Gaza: “Release Israeli hostages before Jan. 20, or else…” Trump threatens Hamas

December 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the outgoing Joe Biden administration’s efforts going nowhere to establish peace in the ongoing Gaza War, the incoming US President-elect Donald Trump has directly threatened the terror group Hamas to release all the Israeli hostages forthwith or face the might of the US. “Those responsible will be hit harder […]

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Defense: Outgoing Biden admin clears USD 1.2 bn part of chopper deal for India

December 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After indirectly attacking India on multiple fronts in the last few months of its rather uneventful term, the outgoing US President Joe Biden’s “Democratic” administration has approved a nearly USD 1.2 billion MH-60R defense helicopter equipment sale to the largest democracy, to deny the incoming Trump 2.0 administration from taking […]

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Canada: “Avoid high tariffs, become the USA’ 51st state,” Trump offers Trudeau!

December 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Justine Trudeau, Canada’s buffeted Prime Minister preparing for the next year’s parliamentary elections, had not bargained for it. Last week, he air-dashed to Florida for a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump, to keep him humored ahead of his second, non-consecutive inauguration as the 47th President on January 20, 2025. […]

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Roving Periscope: Ahead of Trump 2.0, COVID-19’s “lab-leak theory” resurfaces

December 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In 2020, then-US President Donald Trump dubbed the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic because of a “Chinese virus,” suspected to have leaked from Wuhan in China. Ahead of his second, non-consecutive term beginning next month, the same theory has resurfaced, thanks to his Republican Party’s findings—and hinting at the US’s […]

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Ukraine: Amid ongoing war, Russia allocates one-third of the budget for defense

December 2, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the ongoing war against Ukraine enters the third year in February 2025—unless a ceasefire comes into effect by then—Russia has hiked its defense budget by about USD 28 billion to a total of USD 126 billion, which is one-third of the overall budget for the next year, the media […]

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Immigration: Canada caught between the Devil and the Deep Sea

December 2, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement to deport thousands of illegal immigrants, Canada, whose open-door policy has adversely affected its demography, economy, and international relations, and turned it into a conduit for entry into America, is facing a huge task of dealing with the aliens flooding this North American country. […]