By: The Trek News Desk Just two days after a marathon round of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is now headed to Miami, where he will meet Ukrainian National Security Council chief Rustem Umerov on Thursday.The White House officially confirmed the meeting late Wednesday. Moscow Meeting Ends…
By: The Trek News Desk Just days before Australia enforces the world’s first nationwide under-16 social media ban on December 10, Meta has started removing young users from Instagram, Facebook and Threads. The company began sending out notifications last month to users aged 13 to 15, warning them that their accounts would start shutting down…
By: The Trek News Desk Democratic members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee have published a new collection of previously unseen photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private estate on Little St. James, the controversial island in the U.S. Virgin Islands long linked to his criminal network. The visuals, taken in 2020, offer a rare…
By: The Trek News Desk The Lok Sabha on Wednesday (December 3, 2025) passed a key bill that paves the way for higher excise duties on tobacco and related products once the GST compensation cess comes to an end. The move is expected to give the government additional fiscal flexibility to revise tobacco taxes. The…
By: The Trek News desk The European Union has approved a landmark agreement to completely halt imports of Russian natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2027. The move marks one of the bloc’s most decisive steps to cut off Moscow’s energy revenues and weaken its ability to finance the war in Ukraine. However,…
By: The Trek News Desk The Central Government has rolled back its directive requiring all smartphones to come with the Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app pre-installed. The move comes after intense backlash from digital rights groups and opposition parties, who argued that the mandate posed risks to user privacy and could expand government surveillance. The Directive…
By: The Trek News Desk French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China on Wednesday for a high-stakes three-day visit aimed at securing Beijing’s support for easing the Ukraine conflict and addressing Europe’s widening trade gap with China. This marks Macron’s fourth trip to China since assuming office in 2017. Pushing Beijing to Influence Moscow on…
By: The Trek News Desk Efforts by Washington and Moscow to chart a path toward a Ukraine peace deal appear to have stalled yet again. After nearly five hours of talks in the Kremlin, Russia declared the meeting “constructive” but insisted that key parts of the US proposal remain unacceptable. Long Meeting, Little Progress US…
By: The Trek News Desk A diplomatic storm broke out just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India, after the envoys of the United Kingdom, France and Germany co-authored an opinion piece in an Indian newspaper sharply criticising Moscow’s role in the Ukraine war. The article accused President Putin of showing a “complete…
By: The Trek News Desk Pope Leo XIV ended his three-day visit to Lebanon on Tuesday with a solemn prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, a disaster that claimed more than 220 lives and injured over 6,500 people. Silent Tribute, Lamp Lighting, and Meeting with Survivors At the memorial overlooking the…
