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Taiwan plans $12.6 bn special budget for US tariffs impact

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s cabinet announced on Thursday a planned special budget of up to NT$410 billion ($12.6 billion) to boost security and the economy against the impact of new US tariffs.Taipei said it held its first tariff discussions with the United States this month as President Lai Ching-te seeks to shield Taiwan’s exporters from a proposed […]

UAE offers free-of-charge portable desalination plants to cover arid Cyprus’ summer water needs

Representative Image (AI-generated) NICOSIA: Cyprus will receive free-of-charge portable desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates to cover the tourism-reliant island nation’s water needs this summer as reservoir deposits are nearly depleted, officials said Thursday. Agriculture and environment minister Maria Panayiotou told the state broadcaster that the UAE agreed to provide Cyprus, at no cost, […]

Kenyan president vows closer ties to China during visit amid Trump’s trade war

William Ruto and Xi Jinping (AP) BEIJING: Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to build closer ties with China on Thursday, a day after saying a global trade war triggered by Washington could deal a “death blow” to the current world order. Ruto is on a five-day visit to China, his third trip to Beijing since […]

Watch: Hairstylist cuts 11-year-old girl’s braids after late fee dispute; pregnant mother injured in scuffle

A hairstylist at Draft Picks Barbershop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was fired after cutting off an 11-year-old girl’s braids when her mother refused to pay a $25 late fee. The incident, which escalated into a physical altercation, left the pregnant mother with a hand injury.According to the family, the mother and daughter arrived for their […]

South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud, hundreds of cases in limbo

SEOUL: The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program, a decision stemming from internal disputes among commissioners regarding which cases warranted recognition as problematic. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed human rights violations in just 56 of the 367 […]

Ex-President Moon of South Korea Is Indicted on Bribery Charge

Former President Moon Jae-in of South Korea was indicted on a bribery charge on Thursday, becoming the latest ex-leader to face a criminal trial in a country where subjecting former leaders to criminal investigations has become a recurring pattern. Mr. Moon, who left office after his five-year term ended in 2022, faces the corruption charge […]

Pahalgam Terror Attack: Hindu America Foundation slams Western media for ‘whitewashing terror attack’ on Hindus | World News

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has sharply condemned what it calls a “shameful and deliberate erasure” by major Western media outlets in the aftermath of the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, where 26 Hindu tourists were executed in cold blood by terrorists affiliated with The Resistance Front—a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy backed by Pakistan.“Let’s get […]

British man lynched by mob after arrest in remote Ecuadorian Amazon village

A British national was killed by a mob in Ecuador after being dragged from a police station in a remote Amazonian village, according to local media and authorities.The man, named locally as Michael Hann, 34, was taken into custody on 20 April in the riverside village of Playas del Cuyabeno, near the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve. […]

Philippine typhoon victims remember day Pope Francis brought hope

A student looks at a display of memorabilia from the 2015 visit of the late Pope Francis at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. (Image: AP) TACLOBAN: Fourteen months after the deadliest storm in Philippine history, Pope Francis stood on a rain-swept stage to deliver a message of hope to the battered […]

‘Elon was shouting and rambling’: Musk-Bessent clash over IRS turns heated at White House

A heated confrontation between Elon Musk and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly unfolded last week in the White House over IRS reform. The disagreement took place in the halls of the White House and reportedly became so intense that both men were face to face and shouting, with president Trump nearby. The core of […]