US Vice-President JD Vance has hit out at a recent Politico report critical of Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy in Russia-Ukraine talks, calling it “a foreign influence operation” aimed at discrediting the administration.Vance initially issued a formal response defending Witkoff, stating, “Witkoff has made more progress towards ending the bloodshed in Ukraine than all his critics […]
Melania Trump, Hunter Biden (AP) US First Lady Melania Trump has issued a $1 billion legal notice to Hunter Biden, alleging that he made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about her regarding her connections with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She is demanding that he remove the content, retract his statements, and issue a […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a federal takeover of Washington, DC’s police, putting them under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to tackle crime and homelessness. At a press conference, the MAGA chief called the DC crackdown “Liberation Day” and said, “We’re going to take our capital back.” He accused local […]
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday near the southwestern shores of Samoa in the Pacific, according to the United States Geological Survey.The seismic event was recorded at 12:37 pm (2337 GMT Thursday), occurring 314 kilometres (195 miles) below the surface and over 400 kilometres from Samoa’s southwestern coastline, as reported by AFP, quoting USGS.The […]
Donald Tump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy In a dramatic shift from his earlier hands-off rhetoric, US President Donald Trump privately urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to step up strikes inside Russian territory, even asking him directly if Ukraine could hit Moscow and St. Petersburg, if given the right weapons, reported the Financial Times.“Volodymyr, can you hit […]
Vivian Spohr, wife of Carsten Spohr, the CEO of Lufthansa, fatally struck a young woman with her car in Sardinia before returning to Germany. Spohr, 51, was behind the wheel of her SUV as she hit Gaia Costa, 24, who was attempting to cross the road. She was using a zebra crossing in Porto Cervo, […]
JERUSALEM: Israel sent Mossad commandos deep into Iran to destroy Iranian weapons systems during Israel’s attack on nuclear and military targets, an Israeli security source said, while another official said Israel used a ploy to suggest the strike was not imminent. The Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, described secret and lengthy preparations that […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Image credit: AP) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west”, at the start in France of a global summit on the seas.World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious […]
US President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for greater data sharing across federal agencies has sparked concern, prompting fears he could create a master database of personal information on millions of Americans. Though Trump has not publicly commented on the initiative since, officials have taken concrete steps behind the scenes—speaking to multiple agencies about adopting […]
PORT LOUIS: With a former minister and central bank director embroiled in financial scandal, the island idyll of Mauritius is in political turmoil as French President Emmanuel Macron visits this week.At the centre of the mess is ex-finance minister Renganaden Padayachy, who was until recently seen as a key figure in making Mauritius one of […]
