WASHINGTON:The United States on Sunday shot down another unidentified airborne object in its airspace, a day after it brought down a similar “cylindrical” object over Canada. An F-16 fighter jet, at the direction of President Joe Biden, fired an AIM9x to successfully shoot down the airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitude in US […]
ANKARA/DAMASCUS:The death toll from the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria four days ago has surpassed 21,000, according to latest data released by authorities and rescuers. The death toll from the earthquakes climbed to 17,674 in Turkey, with 72,879 injuries, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Thursday. In Syria, 1,678 people were killed in […]
MOSCOW:National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held wide-ranging discussions in Moscow and agreed to continue working towards implementing the strategic partnership between the two countries. The Indian embassy in Moscow said the discussions were focused on bilateral and regional issues, but it did not elaborate on the issues. “NSA […]
LONDON:A senior Nigerian politician was on trial in London on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a street trader by transporting him to the UK to donate a kidney in exchange for thousands of pounds. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, was on trial along with his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu, […]
LAHORE:Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has said that the only way forward in relations with India is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi restores the special status of Kashmir. In 2019, Indian Parliament revoked Article 370 of the Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories […]
SAN FRANCISCO:Elon Musk has stated that SpaceX may attempt to complete the long-awaited orbital test flight of Starship as early as next month. In response to a question from one of his Twitter followers on Saturday, which asked, “You back in Texas? Starship almost ready?”, Musk said the private space firm is targeting a March […]
WELLINGTON:Chris Hipkins was sworn in as New Zealand Prime Minister on Wednesday, with his predecessor Jacinda Ardern officially tendering her resignation. The swearing-in ceremony held in Parliament saw Hipkins officially taking up the top job and Carmel Sepuloni becoming the deputy Prime Minister, Xinhua news agency reported. Prime Minister Hipkins will reshuffle the cabinet next […]
WASHINGTON:The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight states have sued Google over its alleged monopoly over digital advertising technology products. Filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the complaint alleged that Google monopolises key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the “ad tech stack”, that website publishers depend […]
WASHINGTON:The FBI accused two groups of North Korean government hackers of carrying out last year’s heist of $100 million in crypto stolen from a company that allows users to transfer cryptocurrency from one blockchain to another. On Monday, the FBI announced that the Lazarus Group and APT38 — two groups linked to the North Korean […]
KUWAIT CITY:Kuwait´s government resigned on Monday three months after it was sworn in, state media reported, following disputes with lawmakers that have plunged the oil-rich Gulf state into political paralysis. The outgoing cabinet is the third to be formed by Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf al-Ahmed Al-Sabah — son of the country´s 85-year-old ruler — […]