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Mourners furious as people take ‘ghoulish’ selfies with Pope’s body

Until the funeral on Saturday, Pope’s body, dressed in papal vestments, will lie in state at St Peter’s Basilica. As the public viewing of Pope Francis’s body began, mourners were interrupted by visitors who turned the occasion into a ghoulish photo-op. Some Instagrammers even smiled as they posed in front of the open casket. “People […]

Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust

Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]

‘Time for you to leave’: Why legal US citizens have been receiving this mail from DHS

The DHS said these people are receiving the mail because immigrants must have used their mail for administrative records. Several US citizens, legally staying in the country, received notices from the Department of Homeland Security asking them to leave the country or else be subjected to potential law enforcement actions. The DHS clarified that it […]

12 US states sue President Trump over tariffs, say move has hurt their economies

A dozen states, most of them led by Democrats, sued President Donald Trump over his tariffs on Wednesday, arguing that he has no power to “arbitrarily impose tariffs as he has done here”.Contending that only Congress has the power to legislate tariffs, the states are asking the court to block the Trump administration from enforcing […]

US President Trump calls Harvard ‘anti-Semitic’ as fight over funding heads to court

WASHINGTON: US President Trump on Thursday bashed Harvard as an “Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution,” as the university battles his administration’s funding freeze in court.Since returning to White House, Trump has sought to bring several universities to heel over claims they tolerated anti-Semitism on their campuses, threatening their budgets, tax-exempt status and the enrollment of foreign […]

Trump plays up prospects of ‘fair deal’ on trade with China

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump late on Wednesday played up prospects of a “fair deal” on trade with China, but his top officials offered few details of how Washington might de-escalate its damaging tariff war with Beijing. Trump told reporters his country would have a “fair deal with China,” adding that “everything’s active” when asked […]

What happened to Barron Trump? New photo raises questions as President’s son looks ‘plump and disheveled’

Barron Trump is almost unrecognizable in the latest photo exclusively published by DailyMail. Barron Trump’s new photo has shocked those who have been following the closely guarded life of the President’s youngest son as in the photos exclusively published by Daily Mail, Barron Trump looks different — disheveled and somewhat plump in comparison to his […]

French high schooler held after stabbing a student to death, wounding another 3

PARIS: A student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A police officer said the attack occurred at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Nantes. The student […]

Canada releases pix of suspects, and a vehicle, in gurdwara vandalism case

OTTAWA: Police in Vancouver have released images of a vehicle and two persons suspected of vandalising the Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara on Ross Street last week.The suspects were reportedly outside the gurdwara when it was spray-painted with graffiti in both English and Punjabi and included the word “murdabad” (death to), on Saturday morning.Anyone who recognises […]

Iran and France signal readiness for N-talks

DUBAI/PARIS: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Thursday he was ready to travel to Europe for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, with France indicating European powers were also ready for dialogue if Tehran showed it was seriously engaged.Iran is looking to build on the momentum of nuclear negotiations with the US that resume in Oman […]