Washington D.C. — Recent reports suggesting Saudi Arabia's termination of a longstanding petrodollar deal with the United States have ignited widespread online discussions regarding the potential decline of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. However, several experts have pointed out a fundamental flaw in these reports: there was never a formal petrodollar agreement to begin with.
Seoul: Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is attacked, during a Pyongyang summit on Wednesday that came as both face escalating standoffs with the west.
UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Supriya Sule vows to rebuild NCP (SP) with renewed commitment
Manipur CM pledges action against poppy growers
Two highway robbers shot at in Hubballi during spot inspection
Five to six opposition MLAs might cross over to Mahayuti in few months: NCP chief whip Anil Patil
'Well-planned conspiracy by UP CM Adityanath, BJP-RSS': Cong on Sambhal violence
Manipur: Autopsy reports reveal multiple bullet wounds, lacerations on bodies of 3 killed in Jiribam
Maharashtra: Woman records video while husband hangs himself to death from ceiling fan, booked
Bomb-like object found outside police station in Punjab's Ajnala
Congress victory in bypolls not a clean chit to CM in MUDA case: R Ashoka
Maharashtra polls: Independents finish second in 19 constituencies
Pressure groups trying to use social media to affect outcome of cases: Ex CJI Chandrachud
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday claimed the United States is withholding weapons and implied this was slowing Israel's offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where fighting has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians.
Sixty-four people were missing at sea after a shipwreck off the Italian southern coast on Monday, while 11 were rescued and taken ashore to a Calabrian town, United Nations agencies said in a statement.
The world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernise their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on such deterrence in 2023, a Swedish think tank said on Monday.
Israeli officials said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential War Cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza.
Indian national Nikhil Gupta, accused of being involved in a murder-for-hire plot against a Sikh extremist on American soil, has been extradited to the US from the Czech Republic, media reports here said Sunday.
Jerusalem: Israel's military announced on Sunday that it would pause fighting during daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of humanitarian aid deliveries for desperate Palestinians enduring a humanitarian crisis sparked by the war, now in its ninth month.
Berlin: German police said Sunday they shot and wounded a man who was threatening them with an axe and a firebomb in the northern city of Hamburg, hours before it hosted a match in the Euro 2024 soccer tournament.
Ottawa: A 31-year-old Indian-origin former Air Canada manager wanted in connection with Canada's largest gold and cash heist worth CAD 22.5 million is preparing to surrender in the next few weeks, his lawyer has said, according to a report on Saturday.
