US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his tariff strategy might result in fewer and costlier products for American consumers, but the economic pain would hit China harder.Speaking to his Cabinet amid fresh signs of economic slowdown, Trump downplayed concerns that the US economy is heading toward […]
China has reignited the contentious debate over the origins of Covid-19 by releasing a white paper that accuses the United States of politicising the issue and suggests the virus may have emerged in America before it was detected in Wuhan.The white paper, published Wednesday via state-run Xinhua news agency, comes in response to renewed allegations […]
When the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties were exchanged in a frozen forest in February, Red Cross officials noted a disturbing anomaly: body number 757 was recorded as “NM SPAS”, an unidentified male, cause of death listed as heart failure. Weeks later, forensic experts identified the corpse: it was Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian […]
The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday formalized minerals agreement after a two-month delay, signaling a shift in Washington’s approach to supporting Kyiv. Described by the Donald Trump administration as a “new form of commitment” to Ukraine following the cessation of military aid, the deal marked a strategic pivot toward economic and resource-based cooperation. “Both […]
DHAKA: Hours after a bench of the Bangladesh high court ordered the release of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das on bail on Wednesday – five months after his arrest on charges of defaming the country’s national flag – the interim govt filed a petition seeking a stay on the reprieve granted to the monk. The […]
Britons have basked in a burst of summerlike weather this week as temperatures have surged beyond the seasonal average – and they may soon break records. Forecasters say Thursday may be Britain’s warmest May 1, with highs expected to reach 84.2F (29C).The heat has been driven by two key factors: a large area of high […]
The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest young adults aren’t as happy as they used […]
US President Donald Trump United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have gotten all of Ukraine if he hadn’t won the election. In an interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran, Trump said that when former US President Joe Biden got involved in the Ukraine war, it wasn’t good. […]
A Columbia University student, Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested by masked immigration agents after a naturalisation interview in Vermont, has been freed from detention while his case continues. On Wednesday, US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford stated that Mahdawi’s two-week detention “so far demonstrates great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime.”Mahdawi’s […]
Donald Trump’s cabinet members praised him one by one on Wednesday which Ann Coulter called ‘Kim Jong il-style tributes’. As President Donald Trump held the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter called it Kim Jong-Il style cabinet as Trump officials, one by one, took their turns to praise their leader as […]
