French far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivers her speech during the French far-right party national rally near the parliament in Paris, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s bid for next year’s presidential election remained uncertain on Tuesday after a Paris appeals court sentenced her to one year under house […]
Two men behind New Zealand’s largest-ever methamphetamine importation operation have failed in their final attempt to overturn prison sentences of more than 20 years, after the country’s supreme court dismissed their applications for leave to appeal.Baltej Singh and Himatjit Singh Kahlon were convicted over an international drug trafficking network that imported up to 741kg of […]
New details surface as ChudTheBuilder’s release bid stalls despite Alex Rosen offering $100,000 toward bond (Image via Getty) Dalton Eatherly, better known online as ChudTheBuilder, remains in jail after a Tennessee judge refused to lower his $1 million bond during a court hearing on June 3. The decision came even after YouTuber Alex Rosen appeared […]
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court, hearing a plea filed by the parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to form a three-member special investigation team (SIT) within 48 hours to probe alleged “lapses” by the state police and hospital authorities during the initial investigation and the […]
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018, killing 16 people, and was sentenced to eight years in prison, lost his last bid to stay in Canada, his lawyer revealed. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) rejected one of the last two bids for Sidhu to stay in the country, […]
Kuwait’s Ministry of Finance launches a sealed-bid auction selling unused gadgets / Image: AI Illustration The Kuwaiti Ministry of Finance has officially announced a unique public auction that has tech enthusiasts and bargain hunters talking. This isn’t just any sale; the government is offloading a significant collection of iPhones and iPads that previously belonged to […]
Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro (File photo) Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday turned down former president Jair Bolsonaro’s plea to serve his prison term under house arrest, according to a court ruling.Bolsonaro’s legal team had filed the request a day earlier, arguing that the 70-year-old should be allowed to remain at home on health grounds […]
Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan will hold bidding on December 23 to sell its state-owned carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), state media reported on Wednesday.Also Read: PIA apologises for controversial ad featuring Eiffel Tower after brutal trolling The loss-making airline is being privatised as part of a $7 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, which requires […]
Vivek Ramaswamy thanked US President Donald Trump for endorsing his bid to become Ohio’s next governor — but the response online showed how divided the Republican base remains over his candidacy.Ramaswamy posted a message on X soon after Trump’s endorsement, writing: “Thank you, Mr President, for securing our border & making America safer. Now it’s […]
WASHINGTON: Before President Donald Trump asserted that he had the constitutional power to refuse to release money that Congress had directed him to spend, another president made that same bold claim. It did not end well. “The constitutional right for the president to impound funds,” President Richard Nixon said at a 1973 news conference, was […]
