New York City’s longest-running public dance festival will mark India’s Independence Day on August 15 with the celebration of “Shakti”, the divine female energy. The 44th Annual Battery Dance Festival, which features diverse dance companies from around the world, will run from August 12 to 16, as per the news agency PTI.As part of the […]
Image: GoFundMe@/JojiVivianMitsuoHirano A Filipino immigrant and a green card holder with prior criminal charges for distributing controlled substances was detained at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on July 28, after returning from a vacation in the Bahamas, reported GMA News Online.Sonny Lasquite has reportedly lived in the US for 23 years and worked […]
Canada’s Conservative Party has urged Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to add the Lawrence Bishnoi gang to the country’s list of terrorist organisations, Global News reported.The call comes amid a spate of violent incidents and extortion threats in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, which have alarmed the Asian community.Also read: After Kapil Sharma’s café shooting, […]
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas was unlikely to release the hostages without a change in circumstances, but declined fully to endorse Israel’s plan to attack and occupy Gaza City.He maintained that securing the hostages was always going to be “very rough to get them,” stressing that Hamas “are not going to […]
A small plane crashed into a parked aircraft while landing at a Montana airport on Monday, sparking a large fire but causing no serious injuries, authorities said.The single-engine Socata TBM 700 turboprop aircraft, carrying four people, was attempting to land around 2.00 pm at Kalispell City Airport, as per the Kalispell police chief Jordan Venezio […]
WELLINGTON (NZ): Australia will recognise a Palestinian state, PM Anthony Albanese said on Monday, joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada in signalling they would do so. His remarks followed weeks of urging from within his cabinet to recognise a Palestinian state amid growing criticism over suffering in Gaza.Australia’s govt has also criticised plans […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending a tariff truce with China by another 90 days, a White House official said on Monday with only hours to go before US tariffs on Chinese goods were due to snap back to triple-digit rates.The order followed a noncommittal answer by Trump to reporters as […]
2 killed in a Target store shooting in Texas Monday. A suspect is in custody after opening fire inside a Target in Austin, killing two people, the Austin Police Department said, confirming that the officers responded to the shooting around 3pm. The police said that the suspect is a white man who was captured shortly […]
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to pay the US 15% of the money they take in from selling artificial intelligence chips to China, as part of a highly unusual financial agreement with the Trump administration.The deal, which was described by three people familiar with the agreement who spoke anonymously, comes a month after […]
6 journalists killed in Gaza CAIRO: Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive against Hamas “fairly quickly”.An airstrike also killed six journalists including prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif in […]
