Buenos Aires: The newly elected far-right President of Argentina, Javier Milei, pulled out of plans to join BRICS bloc of developing economies and said that the timing for Argentina’s membership in the bloc is not opportune, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.Fulfilling a campaign promise pledged to pursue closer ties with the West, Milei wrote a letter dated December 22 but released on Friday,

Indian private space company, Abyom SpaceTech develops a re-ignitable & throttleable cryogenic engine for rockets & launch vehicles, emphasizing rapid reusability.The company’s Reusable Sounding Rocket (RSR) facilitates various space experiments and data collection. The Small Reusable Launch Vehicle (SRLV) is designed for efficient satellite launches into low earth orbits.Finally, the

Hong Kong: The former leader of the Hong Kong pro-independence group, Tony Chung, who was jailed under the territory’s national security law, has fled to the United Kingdom and has sought asylum, saying that his life there was "filled with fear," Al Jazeera reported.Chung was 20 when he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to "secession."He said in a

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A girl’s school in the district Bannu’s Meryan Tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was set on fire by unidentified miscreants on Friday night amid an increase in militancy in the tribal region, Geo News reported on Saturday.It reported that the miscreants targeted the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Kotka Mumbati Barakzai, which suffered significant damage. The school’s

Islamabad: Pakistan has received India’s request for extradition of 26/11 attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Friday. But she said that no bilateral extradition treaty exists between India and Pakistan.In a statement, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said, "Pakistan has received a request from the Indian authorities, seeking