PARIS: Four people were stabbed today near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was attacked by Islamist militants over five years ago, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, and police said a suspect had been arrested. A police source had earlier told Reuters that two […]
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WASHINGTON: Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the US Supreme Court in an under-the-radar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding for the first time that almost half of Oklahoma is tribal land. The ruling was a 5-4 decision in which conservative Justice Neil […]
SEOUL: North Korea expressed regret today over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the incident should […]
CHICAGO: The scientific head of the US government programme designed to speed development of Covid-19 vaccines said yesterday he supports stricter rules to grant emergency use of new inoculations against the novel coronavirus. Speaking at a virtual Town Hall with Black physicians and community leaders, Operation Warp Speed scientific lead […]
NEW YORK: Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and author of a recent memoir that painted an unflattering portrait of him, sued the US president on Thursday, accusing him and other family members of defrauding her out of an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars. The complaint accused […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 22, 2020. WASHINGTON: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined other Republican lawmakers in rallying to the defense of constitutional government today, after President Donald Trump refused to […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday launched a fresh mocking attack on John McCain, the Republican senator who died in 2018, after McCain’s widow threw her support behind Joe Biden in the election. In a particularly aggressive tweet the Republican leader once again criticised John McCain who was one of […]
BANGKOK: Thailand began legal action today against Facebook and Twitter for ignoring requests to take down content, in its first such move against major internet firms. The digital ministry filed legal complaints with cybercrime police after the two social media companies missed 15-day deadlines to comply fully with court-issued takedown […]
BEIJING: China has barred entry to two “anti-China” Australian scholars, the Global Times newspaper said today, citing unnamed sources, amid heightened tension between Beijing and Canberra. The paper, published by the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official People’s Daily newspaper, identified the two as Clive Hamilton and Alex Joske. It added […]
TOKYO: Japan and South Korea must cooperate to counter any threat from North Korea, Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, told South Korea’s president today, calling for the uneasy neighbours to repair their frayed ties. Relations between the two US allies have deteriorated sharply over the past year over war-time […]