US president says Washington is still ‘completely, thoroughly’ standing with Kyiv to fend off the Russian invasion. United States President Joe Biden has apologised to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy for previous delays in Washington’s aid to Kyiv, stressing that the US ...

Former President Trump discusses the threats the world faces over the advancement of nuclear weaponry amid concerns over ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=313M7UvNTnM source

Vigo Park, Texas — Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle recovered a massive hail stone that researchers say is likely to be a new state record. Val and Amy Castor, veteran storm chasers with Oklahoma City television station KWTV, discovered a piece of hail more than 7 inches (17.78 centimeters) ...

Russia’s president reiterated that attacking NATO countries was a ‘crazy’ idea but warned against Ukraine interference. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that his country would not rule out using nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or territory were threatened. On ...

Man treated by a fire brigade ‘when he suffered serious burns following an explosion’, the prosecutor’s office says. The French domestic intelligence agency has arrested a 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian man on suspicion of planning a violent act after he injured himself in an explosion, ...

Broadband service providers and industry lobby groups have sued the FCC in an attempt to prevent it from reinstating net neutrality in the US. The lawsuits were filed by NCTA-The Internet & Television Association, USTelecom, CTIA-The Wireless Association, and others, who argue that the agency ...

More than five years after the defeat of ISIL (ISIS) and decades of conflict, Iraq remains scarred by war. A journey through the country is punctuated with checkpoints, with armed soldiers standing watch at every crossroads. In Mosul, the country’s second city and former capital for the ISIL ...

Thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis have taken part in an annual march through a Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem’s Old City, with some marchers chanting “Death to Arabs.” Jerusalem has been mostly calm throughout Israel’s war on Gaza, but the march could ignite widespread ...

India’s stock market took its worst tumble in four years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its parliamentary majority. The shock outcome of Tuesday’s election count means Modi will need to rely on smaller parties to form a governing majority in ...

The two men clash over tax, health and the cost of living in fractious debate that failed to land any knockout blows. The leaders of the United Kingdom’s two top political parties have faced off in their first live television debate of the election campaign, attacking each other over ...

Dozens wounded in attacks on Bureij, Maghazi as only remaining working hospital in area ‘overflowing’ with patients, health official says. At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks on the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza, a Palestinian health ...

Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war on Gaza for political reasons, an accusation that highlights the apparent tensions between the two leaders. In a TIME Magazine interview published on ...

As India’s election results become clearer, with hundreds of millions of votes counted and leads solidifying on most of the country’s 543 seats, the world’s — and history’s — largest democratic exercise appears to have thrown up some big surprises. As counting progressed on Tuesday, the ...

Seoul to set aside agreement as tit-fot-tat balloon excursions send tensions rising. South Korea is set to suspend a 2018 military agreement with its northern neighbour after a North Korean campaign that saw balloons carrying trash sent over the border. The National Security Council of ...

Bangkok, Thailand – The United States’ efforts to cripple Russia’s war machine in Ukraine have ensnared an unlikely target far from Moscow: Malaysia’s multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Malaysian semiconductor maker Jatronics SDN BHD is among nearly 300 entities that Washington ...

President says new government must tackle local and international issues. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has reappointed Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to form a new government. Egypt’s presidency said in a statement on Monday that Madbouly, who has been prime minister ...

North Korea called its campaign a ‘countermeasure’ against propaganda leaflets floated into the country by South Korean activists. North Korea says it will stop sending trash-filled balloons across the border into South Korea, claiming its campaign has been an effective countermeasure ...

Tomasdottir wins 34.6 percent of the votes to become the Nordic country’s second female president. Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women, the country’s ...

As the war enters its 828th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Sunday, June 2, 2024: Fighting Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed 24 of the 25 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, according to a statement by the air forces. Russia also ...

Former President Donald Trump was convicted this week in New York state court. With former President Donald Trump's felony conviction on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, questions have naturally turned to how or if this will affect the general election. Many Democrats are ...

President Biden took the unusual step of detailing an offer to Hamas that would end the war in Gaza, describing the proposal as a “new initiative” by Israel. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is simply not there yet. The plan has many holes to be navigated, and Netanyahu still needs the support ...

African National Congress vote share drops to 40 percent, forcing it to seek coalition partners to form government. The African National Congress (ANC) party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first ...

Ukrainian officials say the attacks damaged infrastructure in five regions across the country. Russian forces have launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that damaged energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s national grid ...

Israeli tanks and artillery fire have continued pounding the shattered Gaza Strip and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on the destruction of Palestinian group Hamas as part of a ceasefire plan presented by US President Joe Biden, raising questions about the prospect of a deal. ...

As US and China defence chiefs meet in Singapore, attention turns to rising tensions over the future of Taiwan. Defence chiefs from around the Asia Pacific are in Singapore to discuss security challenges facing the region. The three-day summit, known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, attracts ...

Israel has agreed to a proposal that would lead to a “lasting” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, US President Joe Biden has announced, as he faces mounting pressure and criticism over his support for the Israeli war effort. During a news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon, Biden ...

Mastering words such as “cricetine” and “indumentum”, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched victory Thursday in the United States spelling bee. The seventh-grade student from St. Petersburg, Florida, beamed as colorful confetti rained down after he won the tiebreaker. “Bruhat Soma from Florida ...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Former President Jacob Zuma, is emerging as the biggest victor of South Africa’s general elections as his new breakaway uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MK Party) appears poised for major gains at the expense of the country’s governing African National Congress. With ...

No! Toddlers use this word a lot, as do teenagers. So why is it that once we grow up and enter the workforce, many of us find it hard to say no to our employers, colleagues and clients? Learning to refuse requests for help can be one of the most challenging skills to master. A 2015 LinkedIn ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Three black men have sued American Airlines, alleging that they were ordered off the aircraft after a crew member accused them of having body odour. According to American television NBCDFW, the eight black men, who did not know each other, boarded Flight 832 at Phoenix Airport ...

As the war enters its 826th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, May 31, 2024. Fighting At least three people were killed and 16 injured after Russia struck three sites, including a five-storey apartment building, in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s ...

The news of Donald Trump's guilty verdicts in a New York courtroom Thursday dominated global headlines, but for crypto holders gambling on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November, nothing has fundamentally changed. Over $142 million is riding on “Presidential Election Winner ...

A transitional presidential council sworn in last month has chosen a leader for the country for the next two years. Haiti’s transition council has selected Garry Conille to be installed as the country’s prime minister. For years, Haiti has suffered from violence, political instability ...

Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts' response came in a letter to the senators a day after ...

"This really is the future of law enforcement at some point, whether we like it or not." Dial-A-Drone The Denver Police Department is planning to deploy aerial drones as 911 first responders, The Denver Post reports. Like other police units in the US, Denver law enforcement uses a fleet of ...

State governor says there are no ‘credible threats’ to the tournament or the India-Pakistan match on June 9. Security arrangements in New York will be “elevated” for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup, especially ahead of the marquee clash between India and Pakistan at Eisenhower Park in ...

A verdict is finally looming in Hong Kong’s longest running and largest national security trial of 47 pro-democracy legislators and political activists, with the defendants having together logged 39,000 days or some 108 years on remand even before the sentencing phase of the trial begins. ...

Billings, Mont. — A Republican lawmaker from Montana blocked a Biden administration judicial nominee who would have been the state's first Native American federal district court judge, officials said Wednesday. Attorney Danna Jackson with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes had been ...

DANVILLE — A Massachusetts man on the run since 2007 after being convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman nearly 20 years ago has been arrested near Danville, authorities said. Investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service found Tuen Kit Lee and arrested him Tuesday in the area of ...

Clashes have broken out in Mexico City as protesters rallied against the war on Gaza. About 200 people joined the “Urgent action for Rafah” demonstration outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday. Confrontation with the police was sparked as some protesters sought to break down barriers ...

Schoof, 67, is currently the top official at the justice ministry and a former head of the Dutch intelligence service. Dutch right-wing coalition parties have nominated former security chief Dick Schoof as their preferred candidate to become the Netherlands’ next prime minister. ...

Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process. Ruling in a case dubbed “Upland,” the court said that while governments are subject to voter-approved constitutional restraints on raising taxes, ...

Trump tells donors that the student demonstrators are part of a ‘radical revolution’ and promises to defeat them. Former United States President Donald Trump has promised that he will crack down on pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses if he wins the 2024 US presidential ...

According to exclusive reporting by Reuters, Amazon Web Services is in discussions with the Italian government about a significant investment aimed at expanding its data center operations in the country. The rumored 10-figure deal would see the company expand its cloud computing infrastructure ...

The EU is now considering sanctions against Israel for the first time following a “barbaric” airstrike on a refugee camp in Gaza, which has sparked international condemnation. At least 45 Palestinians were killed in an attack on a tented camp for displaced Palestinians. The attack, which saw ...

Pyongyang says its attempt to put another spy satellite into orbit ends in failure, according to state news agency KCNA. North Korea says its attempt to launch a rocket with a spy satellite on board has failed after South Korea’s military reported the launch of an “unidentified ...

Tornadoes and storms leave a trail of destruction in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Powerful storms in the United States have killed at least 11 people including two children, and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and ...

Sanctions-breaking launch follows Pyongyang’s third and successful attempt to launch a spy satellite in November. North Korea has notified Japan of plans to launch a satellite between May 27 and June 4, after putting its first spy satellite into orbit at the third attempt last ...

At least 30 civilians and 17 soldiers killed as the RSF press deeper towards the capital of North Darfur, says governor. Dozens of civilians and soldiers were killed in the latest bout of violence in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher on Friday, the local governor has said, as fighting in ...

The fire broke out at a family entertainment venue in Gujarat’s Rajkot district. At least 24 people, including many children, have died in a fire that broke out at a family entertainment venue in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a government official said. With rescue efforts ...