WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported on Sunday (Sep 27), citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year […]
Day: September 27, 2020
BEIJING: China’s capital called on importers on Monday (Sep 28) to shun frozen food from countries suffering from severe novel coronavirus outbreaks after several cases of imported seafood products testing positive for the virus. “Customs and local governments have repeatedly detected the coronavirus in imported cold chain food, proving it […]
WASHINGTON, DC: A US judge in Washington late on Sunday (Sep 27) temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple and Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download at 11.59pm on Sunday local time. US District Judge Carl Nichols, a nominee of President […]
PARIS: On January 11, the first coronavirus death was officially recorded in China. Eight months after the identification of the disease that appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, the world has recorded over one million deaths. 1,000 deaths in the first month The Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes the illness known […]
NEW YORK: With just over a month before the US presidential election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to take the debate stage tomorrow, the first show pitting the rivals against each other that’s sure to have millions of Americans glued to their screens. But in an ultra-polarised climate […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 (RM3,640) in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year in the […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump demanded today that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate today, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or […]
WASHINGTON: Democrats are urging US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump’s comments that he expects the justices to potentially decide the outcome, but there is no way to force her to do so. Although US law requires justices […]
ANKARA: Turkey today vowed complete support for Baku and called on Armenia to give up its “aggression” after heavy fighting erupted in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh. The worst clashes since 2016 broke out today between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia who have been locked for decades in a territorial […]
NEW DELHI: India today reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic rages across the vast South Asian nation. With 6.1 million infections according to the health ministry, India is on course to pass the United States in the coming weeks as […]