ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top diplomat today condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting President Donald Trump was trampling on democracy as if he were in Turkey. Trump sparked outrage in Washington by indicating on Wednesday he might not honour the results of the November 3 US presidential election. […]
Day: September 25, 2020
TEHRAN: Iran’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 today, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 439,882, a health ministry spokeswoman said. It was the highest single-day death toll since the ministry registered 216 deaths on August 1. Ministry spokeSwoman Sima Sadat Lari […]
PARIS: Four people were stabbed today near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was attacked by Islamist militants over five years ago, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, and police said a suspect had been arrested. A police source had earlier told Reuters that two […]
WASHINGTON: Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the US Supreme Court in an under-the-radar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding for the first time that almost half of Oklahoma is tribal land. The ruling was a 5-4 decision in which conservative Justice Neil […]
SYDNEY: Thousands of Australian students today protested to demand investment in renewable-energy projects, though Covid-19 restrictions confined the events to small gatherings and online activism. About 500 protests were held across Australia, with other demonstrations expected worldwide today. In Sydney, gatherings were limited to no more than 20 people, while […]
SEOUL: North Korea expressed regret today over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the incident should […]