Texas flash floods have claimed at least 82 lives, with numerous other holiday visitors and campers still missing after torrential rains triggered a rapid and devastating rise in water levels. Kerr County emerged as the worst-hit region as nearly 12 inches of rain fell early Friday morning during an overnight storm, causing the Guadalupe River […]
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with Syria’s interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus British foreign secretary David Lammy met Syria’s interim president Ahmad al‑Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday, restoring formal ties after a 14‑year rupture caused by the country’s civil conflict and the long rule of the Assad family.UK has pledged a financial assistance […]
China’s Xi Jinping to skip for first time in 12 years Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the upcoming Brics Summit in Brazil, marking the first time in 12 years that the Chinese leader will be absent from the annual gathering of major emerging economies. The two-day summit, taking place in Rio de Janeiro […]
The New York Young Republican Club calls for Zohran Mamdani’s deportation. Republicans raised a call to revoke Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship and deport him before he becomes New York mayor citing the fact that Mamdani became a US citizen only seven years ago. The 33-year-old Democrat Socialist is the Democratic nominee for New York’s mayoral election […]
Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan, after 49 years Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving prisoner on Mississippi’s death row, nearly 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter in a failed ransom plot was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.Jordan,a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran, received the injection at 6 […]
BANGKOK: Thailand is further tightening control of cannabis by banning sales of the plant to those without prescriptions.Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalise cannabis in 2022, in a move that boosted Thailand’s tourism and farming, and spawned thousands of shops. But the country has faced public backlash over allegations that under-regulation has […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) A 64-year-old man in China was shocked to discover that a toothbrush had been stuck in his intestines for 52 years. The man said he accidentally swallowed it when he was 12 years old but was too scared to tell his parents and assumed it would dissolve on its own, as reported […]
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday (local time) that its ally Israel and Iran have agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” which would be phased in over 24 hours.He called the conflict between the Asian rivals the “12-day War.”“CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that […]
SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defence minister Monday, breaking with a tradition of appointing retired military generals. The announcement came as several prominent former defence officials, including ex-Defence Minister Kim Yong Hyun, face high-profile criminal trials over their roles in carrying out martial law last year under […]
A former US Army Sergeant, Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, who was last stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a Seattle federal court to attempting to share classified military information with the Chinese government.Schmidt admitted to two felony charges — attempting to deliver national defense information and unlawfully retaining […]
