Donald Trump’s $500m Belgrade hotel project hits legal trouble after Serbian official admits forgery

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A $500 million Trump family hotel project in Belgrade is facing serious legal and political hurdles after a senior Serbian official admitted to forging key documents to advance the controversial development, according to The New York Times.The proposed Trump International Hotel, the family’s first in Europe, […]

European leaders to meet in Albania to debate security concerns against Russia-Ukraine war backdrop | World News

The leaders of 47 European countries and organisations will gather Friday for a one-day summit in the Albania’s capital to discuss security and defense challenges across the continent, with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine at the top of the agenda.The theme of theEuropean Political Community, or EPC, summit in Tirana is “New Europe in a […]

‘Want change’ in Spain, far right finds support with Romanians far from home

Romania’s far-right presidential candidate, George Simion (Image: X/@georgesimion) Romania’s far-right presidential candidate George Simion has found strong support in a faraway place as he heads for a tense run-off election Sunday: Coslada, a shabby dormitory town outside Madrid with a large Romanian community.The Spanish town of 80,000 people — more than 20 per cent of […]

Trump wraps up Mideast tour, meet business leaders, visit interfaith place of worship | World News

Photo: AP ABU DHABI: President Donald Trump wraps up a Mideast tour in the United Arab Emirates with a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an interfaith place of worship named for the Abraham Accords he negotiated. As part of the accords, the UAE and some other countries in the Middle East recognised […]

‘That’s unprecedented’: Kevin O’Leary slams Donald Trump’s tax bill as ‘war on small business’

Kevin O’Leary slams Donald Trump’s tax bill as ‘war on small business’ (Picture credit: AP, ANI) Investor and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary has come out swinging against US President Donald Trump’s proposed tax plan, labelling a key portion of it as “anti-American” and a direct attack on small businesses.Speaking on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Tuesday, […]

Diddy trial: Luigi Mangione’s lawyer assists defence as Combs makes heart gesture at her mother in court

Luigi Mangione and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (Picture credit: Agencies) Karen Friedman Agnifilo, wife of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lead attorney Marc Agnifilo, was seen conferring with members of the music mogul’s defence team during a break in court proceedings on Thursday.Among those she spoke to was defence attorney Anna Estevao, who has been spearheading the cross-examination […]

New Jersey Transit train engineers go on strike, leaving some 350,000 commuters in the lurch

A New Jersey transit train pulls into the Secaucus Junction station (Image: AP) New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations […]

US wants to withhold details in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. Judge will hear arguments | World News

A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments Friday over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador in April and has since directed the administration to provide […]

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York

Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie in 2022 (Image: AP) The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in […]

EU and UK wrangle to last in push for defence pact reset | World News

BRUSSELS: The EU and Britain look will haggle to the wire over fishing rights and food checks as they seek a deal on closer defence ties at a landmark post-Brexit summit next week. The meeting in London on Monday between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the EU’s top officials was planned to bring the […]