SEOUL: Lawsuits, scandals, armed troops and a knife-wielding attacker all failed to deter Lee Jae-myung’s ascendancy from sweatshop worker to the cusp of South Korea’s presidency.After losing by a razor-thin margin in 2022, the Democratic Party candidate has returned to the ballot, and is now poised to replace the political rival he was instrumental in […]
Trump condemns Boulder attack A peaceful gathering in Boulder, Colorado, turned into chaos on Sunday after a shocking firebomb attack left eight people injured.US President Donald Trump took to social media to issue a strong condemnation and blame former US President Joe Biden’s border policies.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “Yesterday’s horrific attack […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) BAMAKO: A Malian army base came under attack on Monday and shells were fired at the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu where heavy gunfire was heard, the army, local officials and residents said.Junta-ruled Mali has since 2012 faced attacks from groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group as […]
Mohamed Sabry Soliman took off his vest when they started to catch the fire. A witness who saw Colorado terrorist attack suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman up close during when he targeted a Jewish crowd told CNN that Soliman was singling people out and called them ‘killer’. “F**k you zionsist. You’re killing my people so I […]
Megha Vemuri said she can take the attention, both positive and negative, if that means more people get the message. Indian-origin Megha Vemuri who stirred a major controversy by speaking up for Palestine in her graduation speech at MIT reacted to both the praises and the brickbats that she received following her action. “I can […]
Indian-origin man Gaurav Kundi assaulted by cops in Australia, brain, neck nerves damaged. (Photo: 9news) A 42-year-old Indian-origin man, Gaurav Kundi, was pinned down to the Payneham Road in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs while he was being arrested by the police. His wife Amritpal Kaur said police slammed his head against the car and also on […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) BEIJING: Three people were killed and seven others went missing in a landslide in Tibet, officials said on Monday. Two people were injured in the landslide that displaced about 200,000 cubic metres of mud and rocks in Muta township of Qamdo city in Tibet on Sunday night, experts from water and natural […]
French President Emmanuel Macron’s wax figure was stolen on Monday from the Grevin Museum in Paris. The figure was taken by three individuals claiming to be Greenpeace activists, a police source told AFP.Two women and a man reportedly entered the central Paris museum posing as tourists and exited through an emergency door with the figureThe […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) LONDON: A Turkish-born man who burned a Quran in London was on Monday found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence, in a case taken up by free-speech campaigners.Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Quran is burning” as he set the book alight outside the Turkish consulate […]
FBI director Kash Patel forces employees to take lie-detector tests. FBI director Kash Patel has been accused of shaking up things at the agency to such an extent that FBI agents have been forced out, demoted, and put on leave with no explanation and Patel is forcing employees to take lie-detector tests — to weed […]
