WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban after six people, including three children, were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, the White House said. “We have to do more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart,” Biden said […]
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WACO, Texas: Donald Trump used his first election rally in Waco, Texas, to cast the 2024 presidential vote in apocalyptic terms, slam his leading Republican rival Ron DeSantis and rail against prosecutors pursuing him with criminal investigations he likened to a “Stalinist Russia horror show.” Speaking to several thousand of […]
LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and bereaved families on Tuesday led calls for “top to bottom” reform of London’s Metropolitan Police, after a review found the UK’s largest crime-fighting force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic. The report, written by government official Louise Casey, was commissioned after the kidnap, […]
MOSCOW: The leaders of China and Russia hailed a “new era” in their relationship on Tuesday, putting on a united front in Moscow as Vladimir Putin accused the West of rejecting Beijing’s proposals to end the Ukraine conflict. The nations, eager to curb Western power, expressed concerns about Nato expansion […]
An explosion in the north of annexed Crimea has destroyed Russian missiles being transported by rail, Ukraine’s defence ministry said. The Russian-installed head of the city of Dzhankoi said the area had been attacked by drones. Ukraine announced the explosions but, as is normal, did not explicitly say it was […]
WARSAW: Ukraine awaits President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kremlin this week with apprehension, fearing that China may ultimately decide to supply its strategic ally with arms, influencing the outcome of the war. Beijing seeks to depict itself as a neutral party to the conflict, neither condemning nor explicitly supporting […]
SEOUL: South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP today, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang. -ADVERTISEMENT- At a fence-mending summit on Thursday, the neighbours agreed to turn the page on […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump and his family failed to disclose gifts worth a total of more than US$250,000 (RM1.12 million) given by foreign governments while he was in the White House, Democrats said yesterday — including golden golf clubs from Japan and swords from Saudi royalty. The items were among some […]
WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump on Saturday (Mar 11), saying that history will hold him accountable for his role in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Pence was in the Capitol when […]
WASHINGTON: The Louisville, Kentucky, police force routinely discriminates against Black residents, uses excessive force and conducts illegal searches, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday, following a probe prompted by Breonna Taylor’s killing in 2020. The department’s findings come nearly two years after US Attorney General Merrick Garland launched the […]