Diageo and Pernod Ricard’s Indian lobbying group has sued Maharashtra state over a sharp tax hike on their affordable brands and for excluding the companies from a new lower tax category reserved for some local firms. Maharashtra accounts for 7% of India’s premium liquor consumption an
After losing her son to Russia's war in Ukraine, Olya Kachmaryk hopes a new US-backed peace plan can finally end the fighting - even if it could mean giving up land he fought for as a soldier. "The more they (the Russians) come this way, the more they'll want," said Kachmaryk, 50, visiting his gra
Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed. In the footage, the men are seen exiting a building surrounded by armed Israeli forces in the northern West Ba
Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years, which killed at least 83 people with scores more listed as missing. By the early hours of Friday, firefighters had mostly contained the blaze ragin
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration will work to "permanently pause" migration from all "Third World Countries" to allow the US system to fully recover. Trump did not identify any countries by name or explain what he meant by third-world countries or "permanently pau
