WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans today have their first formal gathering since liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death gave them a chance to cement a 6-3 conservative majority at the court ahead of the November election. President Donald Trump has urged a quick Senate vote on a Supreme Court […]
world
MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russian efforts to look into the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who Germany says was poisoned, were encountering problems because his allies had removed evidence from the country. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was airlifted to Germany last month […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party has lost some support since July as the coronavirus resurged in Auckland, but it is still set to win the upcoming general election on October 17 comfortably, an opinion poll showed today. The 1News-Colmar Brunton poll showed support for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s party, […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong people detained in China as they tried to flee by boat and they will have to face the law there, the city’s chief executive said today. The 12 were arrested […]
GENEVA: Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up. US President Donald Trump’s government has already secured future supplies through […]
WASHINGTON: The US Commerce Department said today it will challenge an order issued Sunday by a US judge that blocked the department’s order requiring Apple and Google to remove WeChat from their US app stores. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction that blocked the […]
JAKARTA: A soldier and a Christian pastor have been shot dead in separate incidents at the weekend in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua, amid a flare-up in tensions between security forces and separatists groups in the restive area. In a statement, Indonesia’s military said patrols involving the army and police […]
ZURICH: Switzerland, which last fought a foreign war more than 200 years ago and has no discernable enemies, wants to spend billions on new fighter jets. Many oppose the idea, saying the neutral country neither can afford nor needs cutting-edge warplanes to defend Alpine territory which a supersonic jet can […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan said today its armed forces have the right to self-defence and counter attack amid “harassment and threats,” in an apparent warning to China, which last week sent numerous jets across the mid-line of the sensitive Taiwan Strait. Tensions have sharply spiked in recent months between Taipei and Beijing, […]
BEIJING: China’s air force has released a video showing nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the US Pacific island of Guam, as regional tensions continue to rise. The video, released on Saturday on People’s Liberation Army Air Force […]