KENOSHA: A Black man was hospitalised in a serious condition yesterday evening after police in the US state of Wisconsin shot him multiple times causing crowds to gather and demonstrate at the scene. The shooting happened at around 5pm local time in the town of Kenosha as officers were responding […]
Month: August 2020
OTTAWA: Canada’s main opposition Conservative Party today elected Erin O’Toole, a former cabinet minister and armed forces veteran, to be its new leader and the primary challenger to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. O’Toole replaces Andrew Scheer, who failed to unseat Trudeau in an election last year. In the leadership […]
SYDNEY: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today extended a coronavirus lockdown in the country’s largest city until the end of the week and introduced mandatory mask wearing on public transport across the nation. Ardern said the four-day extension in the city of Auckland was critical to enable the country […]
WASHINGTON: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said late yesterday that she will be leaving the administration of US President Donald Trump at the end of August, citing the need to focus on her family. “I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month,” she said […]
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday he blames Donald Trump for “walking away” as Covid-19 ravaged the country, in a televised interview alongside running mate Kamala Harris on the eve of the Republican convention. The president, who is trailing Biden in polls, has been heavily criticized for his […]
KINMEN (Taiwan): Amid rising tensions with Beijing, the de facto US ambassador in Chinese-claimed Taiwan took part today for the first time in commemorations of a key military clash and the last time Taiwanese forces joined battle with China on a large scale. China has stepped up military activity around […]
MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who fell gravely ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was a poisoning, will survive, the founder of the activist group that sent the air ambulance to fly him to Germany, told a newspaper. “Navalny will survive poison attack, but be incapacitated for months […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s sister described the US president as cruel and a liar whose lack of principles meant he could not be trusted, according to secretly made recordings published yesterday. It was the latest unflattering insider account to target the president, only instead of a jilted aide or business associate, […]
China, which claims Taiwan as its own, has stepped up military activity around the democratic island, moves denounced by Taiwan’s government as an attempt at intimidation to force them to accept Chinese rule. The de facto US ambassador in Taipei joined for the first time on Sunday a Taiwanese leader, […]
SEOUL: South Korea reported its highest daily rise in novel coronavirus cases since early March today, as outbreaks continued to spread from a Seoul church and from political demonstrations its members had attended. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 397 new infections as of midnight Saturday, […]