Australian Labor party leader Anthony Albanese (Image: AP) Sydney, May 04, 2025 -Australia’s left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a “disciplined, orderly” government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil.Residents clapped as the 62-year-old and his fiancee Jodie Haydon visited his old inner Sydney haunt, Cafe Italia, surrounded […]
Presentative Photo (Photo:AP) BANGKOK: Massive planned US duties on solar panels made in Southeast Asia could be a chance for the region to ramp up its own long-stalled energy transition, experts say.Earlier this month, Washington announced plans for hefty duties on solar panels made in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.The levies follow an investigation, launched […]
Ukrainian drone downs Russian Su-30 fighter jet Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence (DIU) announced on Saturday, and said this was the world’s first downing of a combat aircraft by a maritime drone.“On May 2, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine special operations […]
Washington: A US appellate court on Saturday ruled against allowing Voice of America staff to return to work, throwing its resumption of operations into question after President Donald Trump shuttered the broadcaster in March.Voice of America (VOA), a US government-run news service for international audiences, has been off the air since Trump ordered the dismantling […]
Elon Musk, head of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), lashed out at media critics and denied allegations of white supremacist sympathies in a Fox News interview released Friday. “It’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi,” Musk said, suggesting that if his detractors could “press a button” to kill him, “they […]
US President Donald Trump, never one to mince words, took aim at tech billionaires during a fiery commencement speech at the University of Alabama, declaring that the same “internet people” who hated him during his first term are now desperate to win his favor, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.“You have to break the […]
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attends her morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, April 2, 2025. (AP) MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that US President Donald Trump proposed sending American troops into Mexico to help her administration fight drug trafficking but that she rejected it. Her remarks to […]
In a dramatic escalation of its immigration enforcement agenda, the Trump administration has rolled out a new policy enabling the US government to revoke the visas of foreign nationals—students, workers, and visitors alike—for even minor legal infractions.The “Catch and Revoke” directive, unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the April 30 edition of the […]
Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to clinch a second consecutive term in 21 years on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of US President Donald Trump.Peter Dutton, chief of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things like self-driving cars and woolly mammoths start seeming normal. On Wednesday night, people waited impatiently in a crowded room in the Marina district, gazing into a glowing white sphere known as the Orb, having your […]
