MELBOURNE: Vote counting has begun in Australia’s general election after polling stations closed across the country. Counting is well underway in the east, where polls closed two hours earlier. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton began campaigning on Saturday in the electorally crucial city of Melbourne. Albanese later returned home to Sydney […]
As President Trump moves unilaterally to slash the federal bureaucracy and upend longstanding policies, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a spree of deregulation, using an obscure law to quietly but steadily chip away at Biden-era rules they say are hurting businesses and consumers. In recent weeks, the G.O.P. has pushed through a flurry of […]
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Representative Image (AI-generated) MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday said it has downed 170 drones and more than 10 guided missiles overnight over Crimea and several border regions with Ukraine. In a press release on its Telegram channel, the defence ministry said between 22:00 hours Friday and 05:00 hours Saturday, Russian air defence units have destroyed 96 […]
Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has stopped shipping products directly from China to US customers. Instead, all orders will now be fulfilled from warehouses within the United States, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday.The move comes following the closure of a provision that previously permitted Chinese-made products valued up to $800 to enter the United States […]
Elon Musk, AfD leader Alice Weidel and US Vice President JD Vance Tech billionaire Elon Musk and US Vice President JD Vance have come out in defense of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, after it was officially labeled a “proven right-wing extremist organisation” by the country’s Federal Office for the Protection of the […]
A man accused of raping a corpse on a Manhattan subway train near the Whitehall Street station, is an undocumented immigrant who reportedly crossed the US border at least five times before being arrested for the disturbing act.Felix Rojas, aged 44, had crossed the US-Mexico border without authorisation“on several occasions” during the 1990s, before being […]
Scenes from the aftermath of incident (AP) A car drove into a crowd of people in the southwestern German city of Stuttgart, killing one person and leaving several others injured, police said.After a preliminary investigation, Stuttgart Police said they believe it was a tragic traffic accident.The incident comes after a number of deadly car-ramming attacks […]
A senior judge who worked for the United Nations as well as Uganda’s High Court has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison after she was convicted of enslaving a young woman to work as a maid in the United Kingdom.The Oxford Crown Court found that Lydia Mugambe had taken “advantage of […]
Representative Photo (Photo: AP) JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said Saturday it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, whose Huthi rebels meanwhile reported several US strikes against their positions.The Iran-backed Huthis, who control large parts of Yemen, have launched missiles and drones targeting Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza war, claiming to act in […]
