Trump, who voted in Florida last Saturday, is rallying supporters in Arizona on Wednesday, defending a traditionally Republican state he won in 2016. Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden cast their votes in their hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday after a speech on his plans to […]
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Lawmakers of both parties are assessing the companies’ tremendous power to disseminate speech and ideas, and are looking to challenge their long-enjoyed bedrock legal protections for online speech. With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for […]
According to the Victoria state government the lockdown changes will allow 6,200 retail stores, 5,800 cafés and restaurants, 1,000 beauty salons and 800 pubs to reopen, impacting 180,000 jobs. Coffee business owner Darren Silverman pulled his van over and wept when he heard on the radio that Melbourne’s pandemic lockdown […]
The cartoon depicted Erdogan in his underwear holding a drink and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing an Islamic dress. Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused it of sowing “the seeds of […]
LONDON: Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil has shown his support for Marcus Rashford’s campaign to end child food poverty by providing 1,400 free lunchtime meals for the rest of the week to schools in London. Manchester United forward Rashford has campaigned for the government to provide food vouchers during school holidays to […]
MELBOURNE: Melbourne’s shops, restaurants and hotels opened for business on Wednesday (Oct 28) after a four-month coronavirus lockdown, with happy customers enjoying alfresco eating in the spring sunshine and shopkeepers hoping for big sales to make up for lost revenue. The state of Victoria and its capital Melbourne, Australia’s second […]
WASHINGTON: More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday (Oct 28) tally from the US Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking […]
BURNLEY, England: Son Heung-min’s prolific start to the season continued with his 76th minute header giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win at winless Burnley in the Premier League on Monday (Oct 26) and moving Jose Mourinho’s side up to fifth. The South Korean was left unmarked at the back post […]
NEW DELHI: The United States and India must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said toay as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Pompeo arrived in New Delhi yesterday along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for an annual […]
SINGAPORE: A new task force has been set up to help vulnerable professionals, managers and executives (PMEs), particularly those who are aged 40 to 60. This was announced by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers’ Federation (SNEF) on Tuesday (Oct 27), and comes two months […]