WASHINGTON: Joe Biden’s brother was questioned in Congress Wednesday by Republican lawmakers leading an impeachment inquiry against the US president, who they say benefitted from illicit business. Republicans in the House of Representatives have accused Biden of engaging in corrupt business dealings during his time as vice president with his […]
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WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden directly blamed Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday (Feb 16) for the reported death of Alexei Navalny in prison, describing the Kremlin critic as a “powerful voice for the truth”. Saying he was “outraged”, Biden added he did not yet know exactly what had […]
NEW YORK: Elon Musk can ask a U.S. District Court to review a magistrate judge’s order that he must testify in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation of his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, according to a court notice filed on Friday. Lawyers for Musk on Thursday had said in […]
Xabi Alonso is an incredible talent from the new generation of managers given his impressive run at Bayer Leverkusen, soon to depart Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said. The former Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder has been linked to the upcoming opening at Anfield after Klopp announced last month that he […]
NEW YORK: The UN Security Council said it was concerned by “escalating violence” in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, condemning in a statement the offensive launched earlier this month by M23 rebels near the city of Goma. Clashes have intensified recently between the M23 ― among the strongest […]
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher and one of the founding members of OpenAI, said in a post on social media platform X that he departed the Microsoft-backed company on Monday. The news marks a significant departure from OpenAI, one of the top labs competing to develop increasingly capable artificial […]
TOKYO : The dollar traded near three-month highs to major peers on Wednesday as traders pushed back bets for a first Federal Reserve interest rate cut following surprisingly hot U.S. inflation figures overnight. The U.S. currency’s push above 150 yen for the first time since Nov. 17 spurred Japan’s top […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A robotic moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was set for launch early on Wednesday (Feb 14) on a NASA mission to conduct the first US lunar touchdown in more than a half-century and the first by a privately owned vehicle. The company’s Nova-C […]
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military announced early today that two hostages taken by Hamas during its October 7 attacks were rescued in an overnight operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The military said in a statement that “during a joint IDF (military), ISA (Shin Bet security agency), and Israel […]
JAKARTA: Indonesians vote in a presidential election Wednesday with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto the clear favourite after a campaign mixing nationalist rhetoric and pledges to continue the era of popular outgoing leader Joko Widodo. The former general lost to Widodo in 2014 and 2019 but is on course to finally […]