Minor aircraft glitch delays Kuwait–Manila flight, passengers safe / Image credit: File A flight carrying nearly 300 passengers from Kuwait to the Philippines was significantly delayed early Friday morning following an unexpected technical glitch. The incident, which occurred just as the aircraft was preparing for departure on the tarmac, caused minor damage but prompted Kuwaiti […]
Vivek Ramaswamy thanked US President Donald Trump for endorsing his bid to become Ohio’s next governor — but the response online showed how divided the Republican base remains over his candidacy.Ramaswamy posted a message on X soon after Trump’s endorsement, writing: “Thank you, Mr President, for securing our border & making America safer. Now it’s […]
Sydney Sweeney’s recent interview with GQ has once again stirred up a row around the American Eagle denim campaign that earlier sparked one of the year’s biggest culture-war arguments. The advert was built around the tagline that “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” The ad drew accusations of racism and eugenics in June. Her latest remarks […]
Newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the centre of an internet debate after a video from his victory speech went viral. In the clip, Mamdani is seen raising his arm several times and waving to supporters. Some social media users claimed the movements resembled a Nazi salute, similar to the hand gesture […]
File photo: A woman who fled el-Fasher, after Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, rests at a camp in Tawila, Sudan. (Pictire credit: AP) Until Thursday, violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against Sudanese civilians was ongoing.However, on Thursday afternoon, the paramilitary group led by General Mohammed Hamdan […]
Taking “lessons” from tensions with India, Pakistan has moved to fortify the constitutional basis of military command, signaling a push to modernize defense structures and tighten civilian-military coherence. Its law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, on Saturday, tabled the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill in the upper house, a move aimed at revising Article 243 to formally […]
Pakistan’s twin cities are staring at a worsening flour emergency after the Punjab Food Department halted wheat supplies to mills in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, triggering panic across markets and raising questions over the country’s fragile food security. The sudden suspension has deepened an already tense economic climate, with transport blockades, water shortages and declining dam […]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing intense scrutiny after a video showing a man apparently losing consciousness while holding a child during an arrest in Massachusetts went viral. However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called the clip “misleading,” saying that the man had faked a medical emergency to disrupt the operation […]
Representative image (AP) Though tropical rainforests contain some of the world’s richest biodiversity, regulate climate and hold vast stores of carbon dioxide, humans often see greater value in destroying them. The vast Amazon rainforest has typically suffered extreme exploitation, losing 3,000 football fields of forest daily during its 2022 deforestation peak to make way for […]
South Korea’s leading universities have begun rejecting applicants with histories of school bullying, marking the first time the country’s top institutions have enforced such a policy.Despite strong academic records, two students were denied admission to Seoul National University (SNU) last year, not for their grades, but for past involvement in school bullying.They were among 45 […]
