WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 (RM3,640) in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year in the […]
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump demanded today that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate today, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or […]
WASHINGTON: Democrats are urging US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump’s comments that he expects the justices to potentially decide the outcome, but there is no way to force her to do so. Although US law requires justices […]
ANKARA: Turkey today vowed complete support for Baku and called on Armenia to give up its “aggression” after heavy fighting erupted in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh. The worst clashes since 2016 broke out today between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia who have been locked for decades in a territorial […]
NEW DELHI: India today reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic rages across the vast South Asian nation. With 6.1 million infections according to the health ministry, India is on course to pass the United States in the coming weeks as […]
LONDON: The British government wants university students to be able to return home for Christmas, culture minister Oliver Dowden said today, amid concerns that more lockdown measures may be needed to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases. “I very much want students to be able to go home at […]
MELBOURNE: An overnight curfew in Australia’s second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said today, even as the global coronavirus toll inched towards one million dead. Despite the number of infections worldwide passing 32 million—with the US state of New York reporting a fresh spike—more than 10,000 anti-lockdown protesters […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 3,874 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 275,213, official data from the Covid-19 task force showed. The southeast Asian country also reported 78 new deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,386. A total of 3,611 people recovered from the […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top diplomat today condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting President Donald Trump was trampling on democracy as if he were in Turkey. Trump sparked outrage in Washington by indicating on Wednesday he might not honour the results of the November 3 US presidential election. […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 today, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 439,882, a health ministry spokeswoman said. It was the highest single-day death toll since the ministry registered 216 deaths on August 1. Ministry spokeSwoman Sima Sadat Lari […]