WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden yesterday tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his all-woman communications team, naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary and campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield as communications director. Senior advisor to the Biden-Harris campaign Symone Sanders will be Vice […]
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WASHINGTON: The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump yesterday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won […]
The Ministry of Commerce imposed import taxes of up to 212.1%, effective Saturday, which Australia’s trade minister said make Australian wine unsellable in China, his country’s biggest export market. China on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against […]
The law was passed in 1996 as a part of the Communications Decency Act, which encouraged the emergence of a new form of communication in the internet era. US President Donald Trump reiterated his demand to repeal Section 230, a piece of internet legislation, after a hashtag, targeting the outgoing […]
BEIJING: China is considering drawing up a blacklist of “diehard” supporters of Taiwan’s independence, the government said today, which may see Beijing try to take legal steps against democratically-elected President Tsai Ing-wen. Taiwan condemned the plan after the pro-Beijing Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao first reported on it this […]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is seen on a screen as she delivers her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong November 25, 2020. HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today the government’s urgent priority was to restore the Chinese-ruled city’s constitutional […]
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 […]
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 […]