Many travelers traveling between Istanbul’s Asian and European sides have relied on the distinctive white ferries that glide across the Bosphorus Strait for almost 200 years. The boats are nevertheless highly popular in spite of the increasingly crowded seas and competition from the bridges and the underwater metro line of the Turkish megacity.Sehir Hatlari, the […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday said Chicago and New York would be the next major American cities to see intensified federal action against crime, reported news agency AFP.“We’re going to make our cities very, very safe,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I think Chicago will be our next and then we’ll help […]
US President Donald Trump, left, and senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (Image credits: AP) US President Trump launched a scathing attack on senate minority leader Chuck Schumer on Saturday, telling him to “GO TO HELL” after the Senate left Washington for its August recess without confirming over 130 of his executive branch nominees.A deal between […]
Podcaster Joe Rogan has taken aim at former ally Donald Trump, accusing him of “gaslighting” his supporters over how his administration handled information linked to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “There’s a line in the sand,” Rogan said on a recent episode of his podcast. “This one’s a line in the sand, because this […]
US President Donald Trump claimed that he played no part in the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but suggested that the long-running host was axed due to a “pure lack of TALENT” and mounting financial losses. “Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, […]
Dubai’s Blue Line will feature the world’s tallest metro station, Emaar Properties Station, expanding the metro network to 78 stations/ Image:DXBMediaOffice Dubai is set to claim another world record, this time in its public transportation network. The city will soon be home to the world’s highest metro station, standing at an impressive 74 metres, as […]
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case. […]
White House slams Democrats for ‘crossing the line’ in storming ICE facility (Picture credit: AP) The White House has accused Democratic lawmakers of “outright breaking the law” after three New Jersey Congress members allegedly stormed a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark on Friday.White House spokesperson Kush Desai was quoted by Fox […]
US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth used a commercial internet line—known in IT terms as a “dirty line”—installed in his Pentagon office to bypass standard defence department security systems and access encrypted messaging platforms like Signal from a personal computer, source told news agency Associated Press.The “dirty line” was specifically used to access websites and […]
When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan that would recognize Russian rule of the Crimean peninsula, the response from Kyiv was a loud and unequivocal no. Doing so would violate the nation’s Constitution, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters. It would never happen, he declared, not even in exchange for the end of […]
