NEW DELHI: A US intelligence assessment report has painted a sobering picture of Pakistan’s military ambitions for the coming year, highlighting a continued focus on nuclear modernization, cross-border tensions given that it gets consistent economic and military support from China. The report titled ‘2025 World Threat Assessment’ was prepared after India and Pakistan agreed to […]
Elon Musk reacted to the Atlantic article that analysed his decline and fall. A report by The Atlantic chronicled the ‘decline and fall’ of Elon Muskin the Donald Trump administration and claimed there was a heated argument between Elon and treasury secretary Scott Bessent in which Bessent was saying ‘F**k you, F**k you’ to Elon […]
HONG KONG: Crude prices surged Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears.While safe haven gold pushed almost two percent higher, the news from CNN appeared to be having little detrimental effect on Asian […]
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fallen far short of the massive savings it promised, according to a report by the Financial Times. Despite claims on its official website that it slashed $170 billion in government spending, new analysis says only a fraction of that amount can be verified. Musk had vowed to […]
Reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane (AP) MOSCOW: The Kremlin rejected on Tuesday the “biased conclusions” of a United Nations aviation agency report, which found Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.The airliner was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a Russian-made […]
US President Donald Trump has dismissed Shira Perlmutter, the head of the US Copyright Office, just days after her office raised concerns over the use of copyrighted material in training artificial intelligence models. The move has triggered fierce backlash from Democrats, with accusations of executive overreach and interference in copyright regulation.According to CBS News, Perlmutter […]
Kash Patel has been accused of changing decades-old schedule of FBI directors. FBI directors, for decades, have been holding a morning meeting daily at 8.30 am. But Kash Pateltakes the meeting two days a week as ‘sometimes he failed to arrive on time’, an NBC News report said, citing officials who worked on Kash Patel’s […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) The Trump administration is considering cutting the steep 145% tariff on Chinese imports by more than half, possibly as early as next week, as US and Chinese officials gear up for high-level trade talks in Switzerland, The New York Post reported, citing sources close to the […]
US President Donald Trump (Image: AP) US President Donald Trump‘s administration on Thursday released what it described as a comprehensive review of gender interventions for children and adolescents, raising alarms about “significant risks” with puberty blockers and surgeries.The 400-page report was published without named authors — a decision that departs from standard scientific practice but […]
