Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM), S. Jaishankar met EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Atlanta and discussed the ongoing global conflicts.
Washington, Oct 31 (IANS) Two Chinese nationals who carried out covert intelligence work targeting US military personnel have each been sentenced to 30 months in prison, the Justice Department said.
United Nations, Oct 31 (IANS) India has asked the Human Rights Council to continue giving "sustained attention" to the threat of terrorism, which poses one of "the gravest threats" to human rights.
Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will join his US, Japanese and Australian counterparts for a Quad foreign ministers’ meeting here on Saturday, talks that experts said would help lay the groundwork for a long-stalled Quad leaders’ summit and test the group’s cohesion amid strains in India-US ties.
Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) China has backed South Africa’s continued participation in the G20 after the United States left Pretoria out of the grouping’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, setting up a fresh point of friction as Washington hosts the forum this year.
Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has welcomed Poland as a “full participant” in the G20, saying President Donald Trump believes the country’s economic success and growing global influence are what the grouping needs, as foreign ministers met in Atlanta to prepare for the leaders’ summit at Doral.
Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told the second plenary session of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta that the world is facing an energy crisis caused by disruption, high costs and barriers to access rather than by any shortfall in production.
Atlanta, Oct 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Germany on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, discussing trade, critical minerals, defence and energy.
United Nations, Oct 31 (IANS) Rebecca Grynspan, the Costa Rican head of UNCTAD, made slight progress in the race to be the next secretary-general in an anonymous straw poll of Security Council members, while the United Arab Emirates' Lana Nusseibeh failed to make a breakthrough in her debut.
Quetta, Oct 30 (IANS) At least three civilians, including a 16-year-old student, have been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in separate incidents across Balochistan’s Kech district, local media reported on Friday.
