Zohran Mamdani, the Indian-origin mayor of New York City, courted controversy on social media after clips from his inaugural event went viral, showing the 34-year-old briefly extending his right arm and waving to the crowd. Some MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters claimed Mamdani’s gesture appeared to resemble a Nazi salute. Some even compared it...
Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. In response to a question from the BBC about the new role of Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, Trump said the US needed Greenland for...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would back a U.S. proposal for three-sided talks with the United States and Russia if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners and paved the way for meetings of national leaders.Zelenskiy, speaking to local journalists in Kyiv, also said top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov had told him of...
House Democrats have released several dozen more photos on Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, showing his associations with the rich and famous. The release of the 68 photos came a day before the deadline to release all unclassified Epstein case files. Under a law signed by US President Donald Trump,...
Australian police said on Monday that they expected to bring criminal charges against the gunman hospitalized after a shooting spree in which 15 people were killed, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community in the nation’s history. The authorities said they found evidence that the attack on Sunday at the city’s famed...
At an international forum in Turkmenistan marking 30 years of the country’s permanent neutrality, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. However, a video with the claim that Sharif had walked into a closed-door meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his own bilateral...
A major earthquake rocked Japan’s northern coast on Monday, with the country’s meteorological agency recording several tsunami waves and local media reporting injuries. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 quake struck at 1415 GMT off Misawa on Japan’s Pacific coast, at a depth of 53 kilometres (33 miles). The Japan Meteorological Agency...
Thailand’s military has launched air attacks along its disputed border with Cambodia as the Southeast Asian neighbours traded blame for clashes that killed one Thai soldier and wounded three Cambodian civilians. In a statement on Monday, a spokesman for the Thai military, Major-General Winthai Suvari, said Thailand deployed the aircraft to “suppress” Cambodian attacks after...
The Israeli military has carried out a new round of air strikes in southern Lebanon, less than a day after Israel and Lebanon held their first direct talks in decades. Residents of the towns of Mjadel, Baraachit, Jbaa and Mahrouna were told to evacuate areas around locations that the Israeli military alleged were weapons warehouses...
Military commanders told President Vladimir Putin in comments reported on Monday that Russian forces had captured the frontline Ukrainian towns of Pokrovsk and Vovchansk and were advancing elsewhere, which he hailed as successes to enable further gains. Ukrainian officials have made no acknowledgement that either place has fallen into Russian hands. The Reuters Daily Briefing...