WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 (RM3,640) in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year in the […]
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump demanded today that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate today, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or […]
WASHINGTON: Democrats are urging US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump’s comments that he expects the justices to potentially decide the outcome, but there is no way to force her to do so. Although US law requires justices […]
ANKARA: Turkey today vowed complete support for Baku and called on Armenia to give up its “aggression” after heavy fighting erupted in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh. The worst clashes since 2016 broke out today between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia who have been locked for decades in a territorial […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top diplomat today condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting President Donald Trump was trampling on democracy as if he were in Turkey. Trump sparked outrage in Washington by indicating on Wednesday he might not honour the results of the November 3 US presidential election. […]
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 […]
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 […]