File photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Picture credit: AP) North Korea officially confirmed on Monday that it deployed troops to Russia to aid Moscow’s efforts in reclaiming its Kursk region, marking Pyongyang’s first involvement in a major conflict since the Korean War. According to a statement by North Korea’s Central Military Commission, carried […]
One person was killed and six others injured during a shooting at Elizabeth City State University, in North Carolina. The incident occurred early Sunday morning at the centre of campus following Viking Fest celebrations, according to a university statement.A 24-year-old man, who was not a student, died in the attack. His identity is being withheld […]
President Trump suggested Sunday his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, as public anxiety rises over his economic agenda. Trump has previously argued tariff revenue could replace income taxes, though economists have questioned those claims. “When tariffs cut in, many people’s income taxes will be […]
Twenty years ago this month, President George W Bush landed in Rome to pay his respects to a deceased pope, John Paul II. He was the first sitting president to attend a papal funeral. But he was not alone: He had asked his predecessor, Bill Clinton, to ride along on Air Force One, along with […]
In Canada’s election, the U.S. is front of mind Canadians are holding parliamentary elections today to determine who will lead their government: the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former banker, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, a career politician on the party’s right. Here’s what to know. One issue has consumed […]
DHAKA: A Dhaka court has ordered the issuance of an arrest warrant through the Interpol against Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in connection with a plot allocation corruption case.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain issued the order on Sunday, following an application by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).Hasina’s […]
Black Hawk pilot Rebecca Lobach took one of the series of missteps that led to the Jan 29 crash in Washington. On January 29, the US saw its worst aviation tragedy when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport, killing everyone on both […]
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said giving birth to children who are US citizens does not make illegal alien parents immune from punishment. Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said having a child born in the US does not make the parents immune from the punishment of entering the country illegally. Homan said Sunday on […]
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]
TOI Correspondent from London: Hundreds of Indian-origin supporters gathered Sunday outside the Indian high commission in London, overwhelming a small protest organised by British Pakistanis aimed at “rejecting Indian propaganda” following the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack that left 26 people dead, mostly tourists.While about 50 people turned up for the Pakistan protest opposite the […]
