UN appreciates FM’s proposal showcasing women in peacekeeping

Momen met UN under secretary general of the Department of Operational Support Atul Khare in New York on Monday and discussed the issue.

Irish police to be given powers over passwords

Gardaí will also be required to make a written record of a stop and search.

Oscar-nominated actor Ned Beatty dies at 83

Beatty’s manager, Deborah Miller, said Beatty died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and loved ones.

2 Mali soldiers killed in suspected jihadist ambush

‘Two of our men were killed by terrorists on Saturday night in an attack on one of our checkpoints, 60 kilometres southwest of Gao,’ a military official told AFP.

Netanyahu ousted as parliament votes new govt

Bennett, a tech millionaire and former special forces commander, was sworn in at the helm of an ideologically divided eight-party bloc united only by disdain for the country’s longest-serving prime minister.

Biden to restore NATO bond shaken by Trump

US president Joe Biden will seek to restore bonds of trust at NATO’s first post-Trump summit on Monday.

G7 vows action on Covid vaccines, climate change

‘We will harness the power of democracy, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights to answer the biggest questions and overcome the greatest challenges,’ Biden and his colleagues from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan said.

Biden aims to counter China's global infrastructure project with new G7 initiative

The G7 will announce "a positive alternative that reflects our values, our standards, and our way of doing business," a second senior official said.

Start-up launches India’s first Covid home test kit

Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit — the country’s first — will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3-billion people.