Jordan’s King Abdullah II meets US President Joe Biden at the White House for talks Monday on resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict, as fears grow of an offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. Amman is a key player in the region and the king is also visiting Canada, France and Germany, amid mounting international efforts...
Far more Americans trust Donald Trump to handle the US economy than Joe Biden despitemonths of strong growth, a new poll has found, underscoring the president’s difficulty inconvincing voters his policies are improving their financial wellbeing. The survey for the Financial Times and the University of Michigan Ross School of Businessfound that 42 per cent...
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) began disclosing results of the 2024 Pakistan General elections in the early hours of Friday, 9 February, as former Premier Nawaz Sharif sought talks with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his Pakistan People’s Party. Numbers started trickling in more than 17 hours after polling stations closed. Voting was held on...
In a damaging report ahead of the November 5 polls, a special US counsel has said that President Joe Biden “willfully” mishandled classified documents as a private citizen but concluded that it would be difficult to convict him as he comes across as an “elderly man with a poor memory”. The special counsel report said...
Pakistani authorities shut mobile internet services across the country as millions headed to the polls on Thursday for an election in which old dynasties are vying for power while the country’s widely popular former leader languishes behind bars and militants ramp up deadly attacks. The much-anticipated vote, already delayed for months, comes as the country of 220...
An appeals court ruled that Mr Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution for acts committed while he was president. The time it took to issue that decision, however, has indefinitely delayed Mr Trump’s federal trial related to the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol. So while Mr Trump did not successfully assert...
The type of cancer has not been revealed – it is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate. The King began “regular treatments” on Monday and will postpone public duties during it, the Palace said. The Monarch, 75, “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to...
Rishi Sunak, the UK’s Indian-origin Prime Minister, has said that he experienced “racism” when he was a child and his parents sent him for extra drama lessons so that he could “speak properly” without an accent to “fit in”. In 2022, Sunak scripted history when he was appointed by King Charles III as Britain’s first...
US strikes on Iran’s militias and proxy forces fulfilled President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deaths of three US soldiers yet left room for both sides to back away from a high-risk confrontation. The strikes fit with a plan Biden had telegraphed for days: He would inflict pain on Iran for the drone...
A Range Rover that was once used by UK’s Queen Elizabeth II is up for sale. Bramley Auctioneers have listed the Loire blue Range Rover, complete with ivory leather interior, on their website with the price set at a whopping 224,850 pounds (over 2 crores). The auction house also shared images of the vehicle on...