Donald Trump cruised to a decisive victory Saturday in the South Carolina Republican primary, blitzing rival Nikki Haley in her home state and continuing his march to the nomination and a White House rematch with Joe Biden. Trump completed a sweep of the first four major nominating contests, converting a year of blockbuster polls into a likely insurmountable lead going...
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“Good Night. Malaysian 370”: World’s Top Missing Plane Mystery, 10 Years On
Those six words were the last radio transmission from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, less than an hour after the aircraft took off late at night from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Minutes later, the plane disappeared from air-traffic control radar screens. The huge Boeing Co. 777 jet, almost as long as a Manhattan city...
Russia threatens to shoot aircraft patrolling Black Sea, claims France
The minister, Sébastien Lecornu, didn’t give specific details about the French flights or aircraft involved in the threatened shootdown. Russian forces threatened to shoot down French flights patrolling last month in international airspace over the Black Sea, signals of a “particularly aggressive” posture from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, France’s defense minister said Thursday. The minister, Sébastien...
Israel strikes across Gaza as U.S. says it will block another cease-fire resolution at UN
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 18 persons overnight and into Sunday, according to medics and witnesses, as the United States said it would veto another draft U.N. ceasefire resolution. The US, Israel’s top ally, instead hopes to broker a cease-fire agreement and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli...
U.K. by-election results deliver double blow for PM Rishi Sunak
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered two heavy blows to his leadership ahead of a general election later this year as the Opposition Labour Party overturned strong Conservative majorities to win by-elections in England on Friday. Labour’s Dan Egan won the House of Commons seat of Kingswood, south-west England, and the party’s Gen Kitchen won Wellingborough, in the East Midlands...
New York Court Ruling In Civil Fraud Trial Against Donald Trump Likely Today
A New York judge is expected to issue a ruling Friday that could shatter Donald Trump’s business empire and force him to pay up to $370 million over fraud allegations. He is accused of unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of his properties to obtain more favorable bank loans or insurance terms. As the case is civil rather...
China moves its nationals into its vacant ‘defence villages’ along LAC
Chinese nationals have started occupying several of their model “Xiaokang” border defence villages across India’s north-eastern borders which the country has been building along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since 2019, has learnt. Senior officials familiar with the matter said the Chinese, in the last few months, have started occupying a couple of these villages built on its side of the LAC across...
Hindu Mandir (BAPS) Inauguration in UAE: ‘Min govt, max governance’ my biggest mantra, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi. BAPS represents a socio-spiritual Hindu faith rooted in the Vedas, pioneered by Bhagwan Swaminarayan in the late 18th century and formally established in 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj. The proposal of the Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi came during the first visit of PM Modi to...
Putin’s Suggestion Of Ukraine Ceasefire Rejected By US
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion of a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war was rejected by the United States after contacts between intermediaries, three Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. The failure of Putin’s approach ushers in a third year of the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two and illustrates just how far apart...
Biden Hosts Jordan King For Talks To Resolve Israel-Hamas War
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 for a deal to pause...
Donald Trump has 11-point polling lead over Joe Biden on handling of economy
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 of Americans felt Trump would...
Pak Election 24: No Clear Majority; Both Imran and Nawaz Sharif Claim Victory
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 Thursday amid sporadic violence, a...