The bill will now go to President Donald Trump to be signed into a law, which will prohibit federal employees from downloading or using TikTok on any device issued by the federal government. Washington: The United States Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok […]
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BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities have arrested 16 people in an investigation into the Beirut port warehouse explosion, state news agency NNA said on Thursday (Aug 6), and a judicial source and local media said the port’s general manager was among those being held. NNA did not name the individuals, but quoted […]
Globalisation has made the elites who donate to politicians wealthy and has left nothing for our workers expect for poverty and heartache,” he added. Washington: China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation is the “worst of all deals” said US President Donald Trump on Thursday. “China’s entry into the World […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi intelligence official. The failed plan to kill Saad al-Jabri was soon after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, court documents filed in the US allege. […]
Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the social media giant from his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, has said he plans to give away 99% of his Facebook shares over his lifetime. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100 billion for the first time Thursday after Facebook Inc. hit a record high […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation today urged Russia to follow the established guidelines for producing safe and effective vaccines after Moscow announced plans to start swiftly producing Covid-19 jabs. Russia said yesterday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and turn out “several million” doses […]
Twenty-nine new deaths were reported over the same period, bringing the country’s total toll to 30,294. PARIS: France could “at any moment” lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government’s Covid-19 scientific council warned today as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since […]
The White House said in a statement the order will “create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts” as it will be :unfair” for federal government agencies to “ replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries”. President Donald Trump signed […]
President Moon Jae-in was set to hold an emergency meeting today, after he had urged national and regional authorities to ‘make all-out efforts to prevent further loss of life’ the previous day. SEOUL: Days of heavy rain caused floods in South Korea that have forced more than 1,000 people […]
Donald Trump has said the US should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if it is bought by an American firm. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s […]