WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump will host an outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire, his team said on Sunday (Jul 5), after his last rally drew criticism for ignoring coronavirus health guidelines. The “Make America Great Again” event will take place on Jul 11 in Portsmouth, his campaign said […]
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PASSO GAVIA: Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change. There is debate about where the algae come from, but Biagio Di Mauro of Italy’s National Research Council said the pink snow observed […]
WASHINGTON: American rapper Kanye West, a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump, announced on Saturday (Jul 4) that he would run for president in 2020 in an apparent challenge to Trump and his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. “We must now realise the promise of America […]
LONDON: A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past. The Black Lives Matter movement […]
FRANKFURT: German animal-rights activists protested outside a meat factory in North Rhine Westphalia on Saturday (Jul 4) where hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus last month, prompting local quarantines and shutdowns. Activists climbed the roof of the slaughterhouse and processing plant in Toennies and unfurled a banner saying […]
GREENVILLE: Ten people were shot early on Sunday (Jul 5) in a Greenville, South Carolina, nightclub in an outburst of suspected gang-related violence that killed two people dead and critically injured two others, police said. Police believe more than one shooter fled the chaotic scene at the Lavish Lounge club […]
SINGAPORE: This General Election is not about the survival of any particular opposition party, or how many seats in Parliament the People’s Action Party (PAP) is going to get, said Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing. It should be about how Singapore is going to get through the […]
KEYSTONE, South Dakota: President Donald Trump on Friday (Jul 3) railed against “angry mobs” that tried to tear down statues of Confederate leaders and other historical figures, warning thousands of supporters at Mount Rushmore that protesters were trying to erase American history. Speaking underneath a famed landmark that depicts four […]
NEW YORK: Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, is being detained at a New Hampshire jail where she is likely separated from other inmates and under constant surveillance, local lawyers said. A source familiar with Maxwell’s case said she is being held at the Merrimack County Jail, a […]
DENVER: Three Colorado police officers were fired and a fourth resigned after they shared photographs they took of themselves re-enacting a chokehold officers used to subdue a black man who later died, authorities said on Friday (Jul 3). Vanessa Wilson, interim chief of police in the Denver suburb of Aurora, […]