THE HAGUE: Nato secretary general Mark Rutte was upbeat that the military organisation will agree on massive spending hikes at a “transformational summit” on Wednesday, as member state leaders including US president Donald Trump assembled in the Netherlands. Leaders of the 32-nation alliance are expected to agree a new defense spending target of 5% of […]
Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins primary, progressive economic ideas trump Cuomo New York City bets on 33-year-old Democratic State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as the surprise frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral primary, outpacing former governor Andrew Cuomo after the first round of ranked-choice ballots.Since the primary is decided through ranked-choice voting (RCV), final results are still awaited, […]
Iran on Wednesday executed three men convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, and smuggling equipment used in an assassination, according to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency.The individuals, Idris Ali, Azad Shojai, and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, were executed in Urmia, a city in north-western Iran near the Turkish border. The smuggled equipment was used […]
Big B**** quits DOGE: Who is the 19 year-old ex-Neuralink prodigy? Departs months after Elon Musk Edward Coristine known by the online pseudonym ‘Big B***’, is a 19-year-old high-profile DOGE operative who has resigned from his federal government post on Monday morning, just a month after the departure of his former boss, Elon Musk.Born in […]
The Trump of TikTok—Minus the Tan In a political shocker that would make Mar-a-Lago jealous, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani has defeated Andrew Cuomo to win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. Armed not with a party machine but a ring light, Mamdani channelled the Trump playbook—minus the racism, plus the rent freeze—and turned […]
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. Beijing has sharply criticised the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for what it called an “absurd” and “clumsy” attempt to recruit Chinese citizens through social media videos. In a statement posted Wednesday on its official WeChat account, China’s ministry of state security (MSS) called the […]
Who is Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani? Meet Mira Nayar’s son and New York’s mayor-in-waiting A 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, secured the Democratic nomination and the mayoralty of New York City on Tuesday night, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in a closely watched ranked-choice primary. With 89% of precincts reporting in the hour after polls closed […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called him to offer assistance in dealing with the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, but he redirected the conversation to focus on the war in Ukraine. “Vladimir […]
Smoke rises from cargo vessel Morning Midas approximately 300 miles south of Adak (Image credits: AP) A cargo ship transporting nearly 3,000 vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean on Monday, weeks after a fire forced its crew to abandon the vessel. The ship, named Morning Midas, went down in international waters off […]
US President Donald Trump (Image credit: AP) President Donald Trump vehemently rejected news reports suggesting that the recent US strikes on Iran failed to destroy Tehran’s nuclear programme, calling it “FAKE NEWS” and insisting the sites were “completely destroyed”.Posting in all caps on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Fake news CNN, together with the failing New […]
