Trump takes election pitch to storied New York arena
Donald Trump rallies supporters Sunday at an iconic New York arena while Kamala Harris goes neighbourhood to neighbourhood in Philadelphia just over a week before America votes in an extraordinarily close White House race. Trump’s gathering at the nearly 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden is expected to draw a blitz of coverage in the Republican’s home […]
Nasa astronaut hospitalised on return from ISS after eight months
WASHINGTON: A Nasa astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station. The astronaut, who Nasa did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida’s coast aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule with three other […]
UN calls for urgent action to avoid catastrophic warming
PARIS: The United Nations on Thursday said nations have just months to supercharge their climate plans and called for massive global action to avoid devastating warming. The UN Environment Programme’s annual Emissions Gap report was released ahead of COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan and a looming deadline for countries to update and improve their carbon-cutting […]
US imposes curbs on Pakistani, Chinese and Emirati firms
WASHINGTON: The US has added more than two dozen entities to a trade blacklist on Monday over alleged support of weapons and drone development programmes in Pakistan and Iran, and other issues, including aiding Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. The 26 targets, mostly in Pakistan, China and the United Arab Emirates, were said to have […]
Putin says Brics, not West, will drive global economic growth
MOSCOW: The Brics group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Putin hopes to build up Brics — which has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the […]
7 more flights get bomb threats; pursuing cases actively, says govt
Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Wednesday expressed grave concern over multiple incidents of hoax threat to several airlines even as seven more flights received hoax threats on Wednesday, taking the count to 19 in three days. He said the government was monitoring the situation and pursuing all cases actively. The minister said […]
Over 140 people killed, dozens injured as gasoline tanker explodes in Nigeria
More than 140 people, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Nigeria as an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they were trying to scoop up fuel pouring from the vehicle, emergency services said on Wednesday. The accident occurred at midnight in Jigawa state’s Majiya town when the tanker driver lost control […]
China says it won’t renounce ‘use of force’ to take Taiwan
TAIPEI: China insisted on Monday it would never renounce the “use of force” to take control of Taiwan, after ending a day of military drills around the self-ruled island that Beijing said was a “stern warning” to “separatist” forces. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as part of its own territory, deployed fighter jets, drones, warships and […]
Collective desire for peace in West Asia: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday referred to the ongoing West Asia and Ukraine-Russia conflicts, reiterating that “no solutions are found in the battlefield”. He was addressing the East Asia Summit in Laos. Modi said, “There is a collective desire for the restoration of peace and stability in regions such as Eurasia and West Asia […]
2.5m businesses, households without power in Florida
SIESTA KEY: The death toll from Hurricane Milton rose to 16 on Friday, as residents began the painful process of piecing their lives and homes back together. Nearly 2.5 million households and businesses were without power, and some areas in the path cut through the state by the monster storm from the Gulf of Mexico […]