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 […]
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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, […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday (Jul 3) rejected criticism over his willingness to convert Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia landmark into a mosque despite international and domestic concern. “Charges against our country over Hagia Sophia are a direct attack on our right to sovereignty,” Erdogan said. Turkey’s highest […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s aviation regulator has temporarily suspended pilots employed by domestic airlines who hold Pakistani licences, after the government of the south Asian nation revealed that many pilots had dubious qualifications. The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) said in a statement on Thursday (Jul 3) that the decision […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan said on Friday (Jul 3) it will reopen its de facto consulate in Guam, a strategically-located US island with a large US military base in the Pacific, a part of the world where China is stepping up its diplomatic reach. China is challenging US influence in the Pacific, […]
WELLINGTON: An Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in last year’s New Zealand mosque shootings will be sentenced next month after delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, court documents revealed on Friday (Jul 3). Far-right extremist Brenton Tarrant was convicted in March of 51 murder charges, 40 of […]
ALMATY: Kazakhstan’s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has recovered from COVID-19 which he contracted in mid-June, his spokesman said on Thursday (Jul 2). Mr Nazarbayev, who will turn 80 next week, retains sweeping powers as Yelbasy, or national leader, and chair of the Central Asian nation’s security council, and is seen […]
The fires are expected to be at their worst in August, like last year, when this photo of a burnt area was taken in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin. RIO DE JANEIRO: Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 per cent in June compared to […]