Moody’s Ratings has downgraded the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA1, citing rising federal debt and successive administrations’ failure to address widening fiscal deficits. The decision marks the final blow from the three major credit agencies, following similar actions by S&P in 2011 and Fitch in 2023. The downgrade, announced after markets closed on […]
Around 3,000 women rallied Friday in Bangladesh for the country’s interim government to openly support a commission tasked with addressing gender-based violence. The Women’s Affairs Reform Commission was set up by the caretaker government of Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus in November as part of its efforts to reform systems established during the iron-fisted […]
UK religious leaders on Friday called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to tone down his language about migration, after comparisons were made to an inflammatory speech in the 1960s. Labour leader Starmer this week announced tougher new policies to tackle high levels of migration, in an attempt to stem a growing loss of support to […]
India’s foreign minister has said his counterpart in Afghanistan’s Taliban government condemned a deadly April 22 attack in IIOJK which sparked a brief conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad last week. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that he had a “good conversation” with acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Thursday evening. “Deeply […]
Ukraine rallied support from its Western allies on Friday after Kyiv and Moscow failed to agree to a ceasefire at their first direct talks in more than three years, with Russia presenting conditions that a Ukrainian source described as “non-starters”. Under pressure from US President Donald Trump to end the bloodiest conflict in Europe since […]