NEW YORK: The personal assistant to Fahim Saleh, founder of the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, was arrested on Friday (Jul 17) in the grisly murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan apartment, New York news media reported. Saleh’s body was found dismembered and decapitated in his luxury condo […]
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MONTREAL: A 73-year-old man was killed by police in Canada just hours after refusing to wear a face mask in a grocery store, the country’s public broadcaster the CBC reported on Thursday (Jul 16). The man allegedly assaulted a grocery store employee on Wednesday after he was asked to follow […]
NEW YORK: A new book on Donald Trump written by his niece sold nearly a million copies on the first day it went on sale in the United States, its publisher said Thursday (Jul 16). Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous […]
ANKARA: Seven Turkish security personnel have died after their plane crashed into a mountain in the east of the country, state media reported on Thursday (Jul 16). The reconnaissance plane crashed into Mount Artos, a dormant volcano in the province of Van, Anadolu news agency reported interior minister Suleyman Soylu […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old anchor of its liberal faction, has been hospitalised for a suspected infection, the court said on Tuesday (Jul 14). Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever […]
PARIS: Earth will be home to 8.8 billion people in 2100, two billion fewer than current United Nation projections, according to a major study published Wednesday (Jul 15) that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates and greying populations. By century’s end, 183 of 195 countries – […]
OSLO: Police in Sarpsborg in southern Norway arrested a man after three women were stabbed in several locations in the town late Tuesday (Jul 14), with one of the victims dying from critical injuries. Armed police were deployed to the town about 70 km south of Norway’s capital Oslo and […]
NEW YORK: In a stunning reversal of policy, the Trump administration on Tuesday (Jul 14) abandoned an attempt to force out tens of thousands of foreign students following widespread condemnation of the move and pressure from colleges and major businesses. US officials announced last week that international students at schools […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore and Malaysia have set Aug 10 as the target date to start cross-border travel between the two countries for some residents and business travellers. Both countries have agreed to implement two schemes – the Reciprocal Green Lane and Periodic Commuting Arrangement, said a joint statement issued on Tuesday […]
NEW YORK: A one-year-old boy died in hospital after being shot in his stroller at a Brooklyn playground on Sunday (Jul 12). Toddler Davell Gardner Jr was killed and three men were wounded on Sunday after two gunmen opened fire at a family cookout in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, […]