Baton Rouge, Louisiana: As a child, Leona Tate was one of the “New Orleans Four,” the first Black students to desegregate a public school in the deep South, enduring racial slurs and death threats as armed US Marshals escorted them to class.On Friday, more than six decades later, Tate told Republican state lawmakers that their […]
TOI Correspondent from London: The man arrested in the Oldbury “racially motivated” rape of a young British Sikh woman has been released on police bail without charge, sparking huge anger in the Sikh community.Crimestoppers, which is independent of the police, is offering a £20,000 (approx. Rs 24 lakh) reward for information they receive that leads […]
The simmering tension between Prince Harry and Queen Camilla, long splashed across tabloids, has been reignited, but this time by someone unexpectedly in the middle of royal history. Former royal butler Grant Harrold, who served the monarchy for decades, is challenging the Duke of Sussex’s stark portrayal of his stepmother in his memoir Spare.In the […]
Pete Hegseth (left), Jeffrey Kruse (AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Lt General Jeffrey Kruse as head of the US defense intelligence agency (DIA), following President Donald Trump’s dissatisfaction with the agency’s preliminary assessment of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, according to AP and other media reports.Kruse’s firing, first reported by The Washington […]
Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump (R) Climate activist Greta Thunberg fired back at US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he mocked her for being “angry” following her detention by Israeli forces. Responding to his remarks, Thunberg said, “The world needs more angry young women.” Thunberg was deported from Israel after being taken into custody […]
Donald Trump reacted to Greta Thunberg’s claim that she was kidnapped by the Israeli army. President Donald Trump suggested anger management classes for Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg who alleged that she was kidnapped by the Israeli army as she was on her way to give aid to Gaza. Thunberg, 22, and several others were […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Monday unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fuelled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment.Starmer, whose centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory last July, is facing pressure from voters who […]
Soldier carries out an anti-gang operation in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Image: AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE: Dozens of protesters marched up the hills of Haiti’s capital on Sunday demanding an end to persistent gang violence as they called on the country’s prime minister and transitional presidential council to resign. It’s the latest protest to reflect […]
An anti-Israel protest in Dhaka (AP) Bangladesh’s interim government announced on Sunday it has reintroduced the “except Israel” inscription on the country’s passports, formally debarring its citizens from travelling to the Jewish state.“We issued the letter to the passport and immigration department on April 7,” Nilima Afroze, deputy secretary of the Bangladesh home ministry, told […]
President Trump upended the international trading system on Wednesday with a blunt package of global tariffs, making the case that the United States faces a dire economic emergency as a result of trade imbalances with countries across the globe. It’s a sentiment that Mr. Trump has expressed for decades, one that helped propel him to […]
