WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department on Tuesday (Jul 21) indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defence contractors, COVID-19 researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide. US authorities said Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi stole terabytes of weapons […]
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WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern dismissed Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Wednesday (Jul 22) over allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with a former staff member. “The minister has shown a lack of judgment over a period of 12 months. In undertaking this relationship he has opened himself […]
A couple dressed with the colours of the U.S. flag ride their motorcycle in front of the U.S. Capitol Building Washington, U.S., July 4, 2020. WASHINGTON: US Republicans and Democrats remained far apart on Tuesday (Jul 21) on how much to spend on the next round of coronavirus relief […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday (Jul 21) that would prevent migrants who are in the United States illegally from being counted when US congressional voting districts are next redrawn, triggering swift rebukes from Democrats and threats of litigation. US census experts and lawyers say the action […]
PARIS: Paris on Tuesday (Jul 21) said the imprisonment of ethnic and religious minorities in China’s western Xinjiang region is “unacceptable” and demanded that Beijing let independent human rights observers visit the area. Rights groups and experts estimate that more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities have […]
How China manages its new economic role, in the context of a growing East Asian trade architecture, will be key to reversing the losses of the trade war, say observers. WALTHAM, Massachusetts: The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on China, including sending additional troops and two aircraft carriers to […]
WASHINGTON: A somber President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday (Jul 21) that the coronavirus crisis in the United States is likely to “get worse before it gets better.” “Some areas of our country are doing very well,” Trump said at his first formal White House virus briefing since the end […]
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States are trying to agree on the scale, scope and timing of annual military exercises with the novel coronavirus threatening to disrupt the travel of US troops, South Korean officials said on Tuesday (Jul 21). South Korean Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo and US Defence […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday (Jul 20) said he would send law enforcement to more US cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests in Oregon with unmarked cars and unidentified forces angered people across the country. Trump, a Republican, cited New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and Oakland, […]
WASHINGTON: A US couple who became Internet infamous for drawing an assault rifle and a handgun on protesters outside their Missouri mansion were charged on Monday (Jul 20) with a felony. In a viral video, Mark McCloskey and his wife Patricia McCloskey, both lawyers, stand barefoot in their garden in […]