WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was not in the Oval Office yesterday, the day after he was discharged from hospital, a White House spokesman said — contradicting a top aide to the president. The behaviour of the president — who was hospitalised on Friday with Covid-19 — is under intense […]
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JAKARTA: Indonesian police detained nearly 400 protesters today, some armed with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons, on a second day of heated demonstrations over a controversial new jobs law in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Demonstrations took place in at least 12 places today, with police detaining 183 people outside parliament […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris will square off today in their only debate, as President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and the ongoing pandemic continue to roil the US presidential contest. The televised clash comes at a precarious moment for the Trump-Pence re-election campaign, less than a […]
Emergencies personnel work in a damaged area of the city of Ganja following a reportedly Armenian rocket strike on October 4, 2020, during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. STEPANAKERT: Half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been displaced in […]
WELLINGTON: Early voting began in New Zealand yesterday with Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern seen securing a second term in office on the back of her success in handling the coronavirus pandemic and other crises. Voters can head to the polls with about 450 advance polling stations […]
BEIRUT: Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded accusations of using foreign fighters, mostly from Syria, in the battle for Nagorno-Karabakh. Here is an overview: Syrians in Azeri ranks? From the onset of the clashes last Sunday, Armenia has accused Turkey of sending mercenaries from northern Syria to fight alongside the Azeris. […]
BEIJING: Xi Jinping’s vow to snuff out emissions by 2060 completes a diplomatic pirouette that moves China to the heart of the global green agenda, wrong-foots the US and cuddles up to Europe’s climate advocates in one nimble step. The Chinese leader last month chose the UN as the stage […]
NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s announcement that he has contracted Covid-19 was proof for many of his fellow New Yorkers that the president has not taken the virus seriously enough. But in a country deeply divided by politics, some suspected the news could be a ploy. In this Democratic bastion, which […]
BETHESDA: President Donald Trump arrived by helicopter at a military hospital outside Washington yesterday, where the White House says he will stay for “the next few days” for Covid-19 treatment. The move, described by the administration as precautionary, came around 15 hours after the president announced on Twitter that he […]
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Donald Trump a quick recovery today after the US president revealed he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “Wishing my friend @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS a quick recovery and good health,” Modi said on Twitter. Trump, 74, first announced on Twitter […]