HONG KONG: Prominent democracy dissident Joshua Wong announced he and two other leading activists will plead guilty today at the opening of a trial over their involvement in last year’s protests, adding he expects to be jailed. Hong Kong was convulsed by seven straight months of huge and often violent […]
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WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden will name his first cabinet picks tomorrow, his chief of staff said, even as Donald Trump continues to evoke unsubstantiated fraud despite growing dissent from within his own party. Biden has continued his preparations to assume the presidency on January 20 regardless of Trump’s moves […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s top military official said today the country’s defence force must ‘own’ a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again. The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan […]
WASHINGTON: A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit critical to President Donald Trump’s long-shot bid to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, calling his legal claim a “Frankenstein’s Monster.” The Trump campaign had sought to prevent state officials from certifying the results of the election […]
WASHINGTON: Twitter confirmed yesterday it will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on […]
BANGKOK: Thousands of people joined a protest led by high school students in Bangkok today to call for education reforms as well as the demands of a broader movement pushing to remove the government and curb the powers of the monarchy. It was the first major protest since Prime Minister […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today that the findings of a report that the country’s special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan were “disturbing and distressing”. The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan between […]
BANGKOK : Thai democracy protesters are set to return to the streets of Bangkok today a day after six of their number were shot with live rounds, as lawmakers prepared to vote on possible constitutional reforms. A day earlier, in the most violent clashes since the pro-democracy movement kicked off […]
Biden’s outreach to the vaccine manufacturers comes as the pandemic in US enters its “most dangerous phase” with US adding about 1 million new cases a week and deaths averaged 820 a day, a 33% increase in just two weeks according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Joe Biden’s scientific […]
In a tweet, President Trump said that the cases filed against the 2020 election have been filed by people who faced ‘horrible abuses’. US President Donald Trump has promised more lawsuits in the near future that will prove the unconstitutionality of the November presidential election. “Many of the court cases […]