At least six people were killed after a strike hit a United Nations facility in Sudan’s southern Kordofan region, a medical source told news agency AFP on Saturday.“Six people were killed in a bombing of the UN headquarters while they were inside the building,” the medical source at Kadugli’s hospital said. Witnesses said that the […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, went on a “feminist” rant on social media on Thursday, discussing gender pay gaps, the effects of capitalism, and how he believes the West “degrades” women. He described women as “flowers” that must be protected and claimed that Western countries limit women to “objects” and “slaves.”Khamenei claimed that, in the […]
US President Trump defended his administration’s ICE raids and argued “they haven’t gone far enough” in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, his first sit-down with CBS News since suing the network. The interview was filmed Friday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He dismissed criticism of his immigration crackdown and blamed “the […]
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa (Image credits: AP) Guayaquil: Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador’s most violent city says residents are living through a “collective psychosis” and suggests the president’s hardline policies bear some of the blame.Aquiles Alvarez, 41, runs Guayaquil, a port city of nearly […]
Udaipur, October 14 (Udaipur Kiran): A marble trader in Udaipur died by suicide after consuming poison inside his factory, police said on Tuesday. The trader left a suicide note in which he apologised and blamed five people for his mounting financial troubles. The note, submitted to police, named Amarjeet Singh Kanda, Aman Kanda, Jatin Kanda, […]
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15 Nearly two months after US President Donald Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Ukraine war, a senior Russian official said on Wednesday that the “powerful momentum” from that meeting has “largely faded.““Unfortunately, we must admit that the powerful momentum generated […]
White House says layoffs are imminent (Pic credit: AP) The Trump administration has warned that mass layoffs of ‘nonessential’ federal employees could begin within days if the ongoing US government shutdown continues. At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that federal layoffs are imminent, slamming Democrats for the […]
Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday claimed that Nato and the European Union had “declared war” on Moscow through Ukraine during remarks at a G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on September 25 and on the sidelines of the United Nations.“Another clear example is the crisis in Ukraine provoked by the West, through which NATO and […]
Masoud Pezeshkian (AP image) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday reaffirmed that Tehran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, insisting that its nuclear activities are peaceful in nature.“I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb,” Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly […]
With just days remaining before the fiscal year ends on September 30, the US government faces the looming threat of a shutdown. Donald Trump is set to meet with Democratic leaders on Thursday, who are pushing to preserve key healthcare programs as part of any funding deal before the deadline.The White House has already pointed […]
