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A new wave of Trump tariffs could unsettle US trade partners which have already signed new trade deals or have been negotiating them for months. US President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing additional tariffs of 10% or more to be imposed on its trading partners following a probe into countries importing goods allegedly made with forced labor.…

A Kenyan court blocked on ​Tuesday for another three weeks a proposed U.S. Ebola quarantine facility that has triggered protests in which two people were killed, and ordered the ‌government to disclose its agreement with Washington. The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base in central Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus in Democratic Republic…

British MP Rupert Lowe highlighted survivor testimonies and alleged institutional failures, reigniting scrutiny of the UK’s grooming gangs scandal. A recent speech by British MP Rupert Lowe in Parliament has renewed discussion on the UK’s long-running grooming gangs scandal. During his speech he presented disturbing survivor accounts and findings from his independent investigation into organised child sexual…

PLANS for the world’s first floating city have been revealed to include schools and a research hospital. The £12 billion ‘Freedom Ship’ has a capacity of 80,000 and would provide homes for 50,000 permanent residents. The mile-long vessel would also have capacity for 10,000 day visitors, as well as 20,000 crew members. These plans have devised a…

Trump and Netanyahu share a complex, decades-long relationship, which has been marked by periods of strong public alignment and deep private tension. In the past, both leaders have had several tense calls but have still coordinated closely on Iran and other issues. US President Donald Trump reportedly fumed over Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated…

More than 1,100 people were suspected of having contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the head of the African Union’s health agency said on Sunday in a commentary for the Financial Times. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director general Jean Kaseya said there were 263 confirmed cases in both countries…

Nepal PM Balen Shah’s remark that Nepal also encroached Indian territory sparked controversy, drawing opposition criticism, demands for proof or apology, while government clarified comments referred to border irregularities, not claims. Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Sunday said he has learnt about his country “encroaching” territories in India, as he sought to answer questions in Parliament…

A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed more than 45 people, according to rescue workers and independent media reports. About 70 other people were injured in the explosion that took place around noon in the village of Kaungtup, in Namhkam township. The area, located…

U.S. President Donald Trump will headline an event commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary on the National Mall next ​month, organizers said on Saturday, after several musical performers scheduled to appear in ‌the celebration canceled, citing concerns about its association with him. The concerts were planned as the opening ceremony of the Great American State Fair, a 16-day…

The rapid spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has created a “deeply alarming” situation, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned. Speaking two weeks on from the outbreak being declared, MSF deputy director Dr Alan Gonzales said never before had “so many cases” been recorded so soon. His comments came as the…

Iran Strike on Kuwait Injures Americans, Hits Reaper Drones Amid Peace Deal Deadlock Several Americans were among those injured after the debris from an Iranian missile hit a military air base in Kuwait on Friday, according to a report by Bloomberg. This came on the day when US President Donald Trump met senior officials at the White…

Less than two months after he completed a carefully engineered transition from Myanmar’s ​junta chief to become president, Min Aung Hlaing will fly to India on an official visit on Saturday, his first overseas visit ‌since taking the civilian role. The five-day trip, during which the former general will hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…

Satellite images show Beijing is building launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles. In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out…

Recently, Emily in Paris fans are saddened by the untimely passing of actor Pierre Deny. French actor Pierre Deny has passed away at the age of 69 following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Deny was best known internationally for his role in the web series Emily in Paris. His daughters confirmed the same in a…

A new UN report accuses Israeli forces of abuses against Palestinian detainees. The report also documents hundreds of sexual violence cases linked to Russian forces in Ukraine. Both countries deny the allegations. The United Nations has added Israeli and Russian security forces to its blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence for the first time, according to an annual…

In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind – and missing thousands of people who may be at risk. Interviews with global health officials and documents ​from a meeting led by the World Health Organization and Africa Centres…

A Google employee has been arrested for $1.2 million (Rs 11.5 crore) fraud after he bet on Polymarket using internal search data. A Google techie has been arrested and charged with fraud and money laundering after he allegedly earned $1.2 million (Rs 11.5 crore) by illegally trading contracts on Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market. The accused Googler,…

Israel announced that the IDF killed Muhammad Odeh, Hamas’s new military wing chief and a key planner of the October 7 attack, in a Gaza strike ordered by PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz. Netanyahu vowed to target all involved in the massacre. Meanwhile, Israel intensified airstrikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, with reports of…

Apple (AAPL.O), and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), Google on Tuesday pushed to amend an online safety bill working its way through Canada’s parliament to add judicial oversight to ​what the firms described as a potential for secret orders to break the ‌encryption of their software and devices. Bill C-22 was proposed by Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and is being…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ousted four-term U.S. Senator John Cornyn on Tuesday, riding President Donald Trump’s endorsement to a runoff victory for the Republican Senate nomination, U.S. media ​projected. The race was called shortly after polls closed in Texas’ westernmost counties, which are in a separate time zone from most of the state. “Without a shadow…

“If you don’t engage the technology of your time, you’ll just simply be left behind,” Mr Huang told CNA’s Victoria Jen in a wide-ranging interview. The narrative that some chief executives use to tie artificial intelligence to job cuts is a “lazy” one which “doesn’t make any sense”, said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday (May 25).…

The United States on Friday temporarily banned the entry of lawful permanent residents ​who have been in the Democratic Republic of ‌Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days, citing concerns over Ebola. U.S. citizens, nationals and green card holders had ​been exempt from a 30-day Ebola ban, ​but the U.S. CDC said on Friday…

US intelligence reports indicate that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in seclusion at an undisclosed location, limiting his contact with the outside world. US intelligence suggests Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is living in seclusion at an undisclosed location with severely limited contact with the outside world, according to US officials familiar with the matter quoted…

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Saturday ​that a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal with Iran is “largely negotiated,” as both countries and mediators in Pakistan reported progress. Trump posted on social media that the emerging agreement ‌would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping passage whose closure upended global energy markets after the…

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was hit by a massive strike of missiles and drones early on ​Sunday, shortly after its air force warned Russia ‌might launch a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile. Explosions reverberated through the city shortly after 1 a.m. local time after the air ​force announced a threat of an Oreshnik launch ​on its Telegram channel. At…

Her husband Abraham was recently diagnosed with extremely rare form of bone cancer, she wrote in resignation letter Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her post as Director of National Intelligence to support her husband through his battle with “an extremely rare form of bone cancer,” Fox News Digital learned. Gabbard notified President Donald Trump during a meeting…

Iran and Oman are actively discussing a permanent security mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is pushing to institutionalize and normalize a transit fee or toll on commercial shipping vessels navigating the narrow waterway. According to an Iranian diplomatic envoy, the proposed system is designed to secure the long-term positioning of Iran and Oman as the…

SpaceX took the wraps off its IPO filing on Wednesday, laying bare for investors just how much Elon Musk is losing on artificial intelligence while betting the company’s future on transforming the rocket maker into an ​AI powerhouse. Much of its outlook relies on SpaceX dominating technologies and markets that do not yet exist – from Mars…

President Donald Trump blurted out a stunning dismissal of pain at the pump as his approval rating sinks, telling reporters, “This is peanuts,” and he doesn’t “even think about that.” The president spoke to reporters on Tuesday morning against the backdrop of the massive and cacophonous East Wing construction project and took questions for about 45 minutes.…

Elon Musk’s lawyer said after the verdict that “this one is not over” and that the billionaire planned to appeal. A US jury on Monday (May 18) ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world’s richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to…

A NATO military jet has shot down a suspected Ukrainian drone in Estonian airspace. As Ukraine targets Russia’s Baltic oil facilities more often and more intensely, more such drones are straying into allies’ territory. NATO confirmed on Tuesday that one of its F16 jets from the Baltic air policing mission based in Lithuania had shot down a…

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death over the murder of a teen social media influencer that sparked uproar across the country. Umar Hayat broke into the home of 17-year-old TikTok star Sana Yousaf in June last year after she rejected his repeated advances, and shot her dead. Hayat, now 23, admitted his crime…

U.S. President Donald Trump ​said on Monday he had paused a planned attack against Iran after Tehran sent a peace proposal to Washington, and that there was now a “very good chance” of ‌reaching a deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program. After Iran sent the U.S. a new peace proposal, Trump said he had instructed the U.S. military…

The joint strikes come shortly after the US and Nigeria announced killing a high-profile IS leader. Meanwhile, residents reported a gunmen attack which killed at least 10 in the northwestern Katsina State. The United States and Nigeria conducted fresh strikes on Sunday against so-called Islamic State jihadists in northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, the US military said Monday.…

A DEFIANT Elon Musk has said that he will appeal a judge’s ruling to dismiss his high-stakes lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. A jury in Oakland unanimously ruled against the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, 54, determining that he missed his three-year window to file his lawsuit against the powerhouse tech company. Musk appeared adamant…

Tehran is seeking to levy fees on firms including Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon for use of the submarine cables that pass beneath the Strait of Hormuz. A slowdown in your bank transfer. A lag in financial markets. A region-wide internet blackout. After the Middle East war put the world through an oil and energy shock, Iran…

France is pursuing its own investigation into the Epstein affair, looking at potential crimes committed in the EU country or involving French nationals tied to the US sex offender. Around 10 new suspected victims have come forward since France launched a probe into late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his network, Paris’ top public prosecutor said…

The United Arab Emirates said a drone strike had triggered a fire near its nuclear power station on Sunday, calling the incident a “dangerous escalation”. Officials are investigating the source of the strike. The country’s defence ministry said three drones had entered the UAE from the “western border direction”. While two were intercepted, the third drone struck…

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while returning to Washington, Trump said he wanted to avoid escalating tensions over Taiwan. US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has not yet decided whether to approve a planned $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan after discussing the issue extensively with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Speaking to…

The artefacts, widely referred to in Europe as the ‘Leiden Plates’, are among the most historically valuable surviving records from the Chola empire. India had been seeking their return since 2012. In a major cultural restitution move, the Netherlands formally returned a set of 11th-century Chola-era copper plates to India on Saturday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

The FBI Director is facing fresh controversy after reports allege that Patel turned an official work trip into a luxury outing with his girlfriend. While the FBI has defended the visit as official business, critics have raised questions over the ethics and optics surrounding the travel. FBI Director Kash Patel is facing renewed scrutiny after reports alleged…

AN OUTBREAK of Ebola has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo following a new strain. A total of 65 people have already been killed across the Ituri province in the northeast of the country, and another 246 suspected cases have been recorded. So far, only four of the deaths are laboratory-confirmed cases – but the…

In a series of posts on X, the Republican senator from Missouri attacked the US employment-based visa system, alleging it suppresses local wages and creates a global “Visa Cartel” that displaces American workers. US Senator Eric Schmitt sparked an online controversy by targeting Hyderabad’s Chilkur Balaji Temple, popularly known as the “Visa Temple”, while he was criticising…

The BRICS bloc faces major challenges as foreign ministers meet in India, bringing Iran and the UAE face-to-face. The conflict in the Gulf and disruptions to oil supplies dominate the agenda. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar called for “safe, unimpeded maritime flows” through international waters, including the Strait of Hormuz, as the politically divided BRICS nations gathered…

At least six people died in Ukraine after Russia launched a daytime attack of 800 drones of drones as far as western regions bordering NATO. Zelenskyy said it was one of the longest and largest attacks of the war. A large-scale Russian drone attack against Ukraine took place Wednesday, killing six people ​and ‌wounding dozens across the…

A confirmed Norovirus outbreak aboard the Ambition cruise ship sickened passengers, triggering temporary confinement and emergency health measures. More than 1,700 passengers and crew members aboard the cruise ship Ambition were temporarily confined on the vessel off the French coast after an outbreak of Norovirus caused dozens of people to fall ill. Around 50 people have so…

The new image appears to back a report by CBS News that Iran had been sending aircraft, including reconnaissance and intelligence aircraft to Pakistan’s Nur Khan airbase High-resolution satellite imagery sourced from Vantor appears to confirm reports that Pakistan has been harbouring at least one Iran Air Force military aircraft while projecting itself as an independent mediator…

Jason Collins, the first openly gay active player in the NBA, has died at the age of 47 ​after battling cancer, his family said on Tuesday. Collins revealed in ‌September that he was undergoing treatment for a brain tumour and later disclosed he had stage four glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. “We are heartbroken to…

Amnesty International is calling for an investigation, saying the strike was the latest deadly attack to kill civilians. The military denies that civilians were harmed. According to Amnesty International, at least 100 civilians have been killed in a Nigerian military airstrike on a crowded market in the country’s northwest. The rights group’s Nigerian office said the attack…

The mayor of Arcadia admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, resigning from her position in a shocking federal plea deal unsealed on Monday. Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She…

The family of a man killed in ​a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a U.S. ‌court, claiming the shooter was aided by ChatGPT in planning the attack. The family of Tiru Chabba filed the lawsuit on Sunday in Florida federal court against the company and the man charged…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that a ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” ​after Tehran’s response to a U.S. proposal to end the war made clear the two sides were still far apart on a number of issues. Iran has called for an end ‌to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, where U.S.…

The attack occurred in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where militants drove an explosives‑laden vehicle into a police checkpoint. Militants detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan, and opened fire on officers, killing at least 15 people, authorities said Sunday. The attack took place late Saturday in the Fateh Khel area.…

Two Singaporean nationals missing following the eruption of Mount Dukono on ​Indonesia’s Halmahera island were confirmed dead on Sunday, the ‌local rescue agency said. Rescuers found the bodies holding each other under rock debris around the crater rim, agency head Iwan Ramdani said. The bodies ​were retrieved in a difficult operation due to extreme ​terrain and rainfall,…

A father and his two sons on a flight to Los Angeles thought they were “going to die” when their Frontier jet struck a pedestrian on the runway — as they described the grisly ordeal. Nebraskan John Anthens, 56, thought he and his two sons, Jacob, 30, and Levi, 19, weren’t going to make in the seconds…

About 2,300 North Korean soldiers have died fighting for Russia against Ukraine, according to a BBC investigation based on satellite images and official photos of a new memorial in Pyongyang. South Korea estimates at least 11,000 North Koreans were sent to Russia to help recapture parts of western Kursk, after Ukraine launched a surprise incursion in Kursk…

While a recent outbreak on the cruise ship involved the Andes strain, the only type known to pass between humans, transmission still requires very close, intimate contact. The ongoing hantavirus outbreak is raising global public health concerns. A common question among individuals is whether it will spread like Covid-19. Will there be a lockdown? Do individuals need…

Israel struck and critically wounded ​the son of the Hamas militant group’s top negotiator on Wednesday in air strikes that also killed at least five ‌people across the Gaza Strip, according to medics and Hamas sources. Azzam Al-Hayya, son of Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’ exiled Gaza chief who had been leading indirect talks with Israel over the Palestinian…

A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to ​say goodbye.” Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell ‌in August 2019…

China has showcased its first operational J-35AE stealth fighter built specifically for export. Pakistan, which has reportedly begun pilot training in China, is the frontrunner to acquire up to 40 of the fifth-generation jets. China has unveiled a new variant of the fifth-generation J-35 multi-role stealth fighter jet, built for export and designed to compete with the…

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her. Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had…

Health officials believe a rare strain of hantavirus that spreads from person-to-person and has a 40% mortality rate is responsible for the outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship that has killed three passengers, and sickened seven others. Though hantavirus is typically only spread through rodent droppings, this particular strain is an alarming exception – and it’s…

Australia and Japan agreed on Monday to deepen cooperation on energy and ​critical minerals, as Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese during ‌a three-day visit to the country. After signing a landmark defence deal last month, the two nations agreed to strengthen energy, food and critical minerals supply chains. “Australia and ​Japan are…

OpenAI’s co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, on Monday disclosed deeper financial ​ties to CEO Sam Altman than previously known as well as a stake in the ChatGPT maker worth almost $30 billion. The details were ‌shared in court during questioning by a lawyer for Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI and is now suing the company on grounds…

Tenants in a Long Island apartment building say they have been living in conditions so horrible that some can’t even breathe in their own homes — choking on mold, dodging mutant “X-Men” bugs and enduring relentless water leaks. Tina Shuford, president of the tenants’ union at 100 Terrace Ave. in Hempstead, said she hasn’t used her own…

The dresses have been sewn, the jewellery has been polished and New York’s hairdressers and make-up artists have been fully booked ahead of the Met Gala 2026. Around 450 A-list guests will begin arriving later for fashion’s biggest night of the year, which raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and…

The German chancellor said there was “no connection” between disagreements over the Iran war and the pullout of US troops from Germany. He insisted he shared Trump’s goal of ensuring Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressed the state of the bilateral relationship with the US on Sunday, in the wake of a…

Driverless cars are becoming more common in some California cities, but when the autonomous vehicles violate traffic laws, police haven’t been able to ticket them – until now. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has announced new regulations on autonomous vehicles (AVs), including a process for police to issue a “notice of AV noncompliance” directly to…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had been told about the concept of a deal with Iran, but was ​waiting for the exact wording, while warning there was still the possibility of restarting strikes on the country if Tehran misbehaves. A senior Iranian official said on ‌Saturday that an Iranian proposal so far rejected by…

King Charles III is visiting Bermuda on his first trip to a British overseas territory as monarch. The King, who was not accompanied by Queen Camilla, arrived in the territory’s capital of Hamilton on Thursday evening, after a four-day state visit to the US. His first day in the territory included viewing artefacts from the transatlantic slave…

AI performers will not qualify for Oscars under new Academy rules that also overhaul the international film category and acting nominations. Actors created with artificial intelligence will not be eligible for an Oscar, said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday introducing new rules for the awards. The governing body of the Oscar Awards clarified that acting…

THE former JPMorgan worker who accused his coworker of turning him into her sex slave in a scandalous lawsuit has been identified. Chirayu Rana, 35, is reportedly behind the suit alleging Lorna Hajdini, a high-ranking executive, racially abused, sexually assaulted and drugged him during the time they worked together. Rana had filed the case under the pseudonym…