The UK PM expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader. London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday and expressed his support for Ukraine’s leader. “The Prime Minister spoke to President Zelenskyy this evening and stressed the need for everyone to work together,” a statement … Read more
Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will meet US envoy Keith Kellogg on Thursday and that he hopes for “constructive” work with the US, after Donald Trump lashed out against the Ukrainian leader on social media. Zelensky addressed Ukrainians late Wednesday in his daily evening video, hours after Trump criticised him on social media, calling … Read more
Elon Musk has once again courted controversy claiming that “millions of vampires” have been collecting Social Security benefits. He alleges the US Social Security database includes millions of people over 100 years old – some as old as 300 – fraudulently receiving payments. In a post on X, Musk wrote, “According to the Social Security … Read more
Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that it was “wrong and dangerous” of US President Donald Trump to call Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator”. “What is correct is that Volodymyr Zelensky is the elected head of state of Ukraine,” Scholz told the Spiegel news site. Earlier on Wednesday Trump called Zelensky “a dictator … Read more
Washington: French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. national security advisor Mike Waltz said on Wednesday. Asked about the chances of reaching a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, Waltz told Fox News … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered defendants in all upcoming cases stemming from a major COVID-19 pandemic fraud case in Minnesota to stay away from her courtroom after allegations of witness tampering surfaced in the trial of the alleged ringleader. Prosecutors say the scheme stole $250 million from a program meant to … Read more
Washington: Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously hot gas planet that orbits close to a star bigger and hotter than our sun. The researchers peered through the atmosphere of WASP-121b, a … Read more
Cairo: Egypt’s antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. The tomb, discovered near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in southern Egypt, belonged to King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who … Read more
Investigators are probing the causes of an unusual plane crash at Canada’s largest airport on Monday, when a regional jet flipped upside down upon landing during windy weather, sending 21 of the 80 people on board to hospital. Video shows the Delta Air Lines plane belly up and missing its right wing at Toronto’s Pearson … Read more
Moscow: Vladimir Putin has reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv will most definitely be included in negotiations that will aim to end the three-year war in Ukraine. Speaking for the first time since the crucial Russia-US meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, President Putin described it as in important step towards finding a solution … Read more
Manila: Residents in a central Manila neighbourhood lined up Wednesday, as dengue cases spike nationwide, to collect a bounty — one peso for every five mosquitoes, dead or alive. Carlito Cernal, village captain in Addition Hills, said the awareness-raising project he initiated could have a “huge impact” on curbing the tropical disease’s spread when combined … Read more
In a recent interview with Fox News, Donald Trump made a startling admission about his collaboration with Elon Musk. Trump revealed that he had initially searched for “somebody smarter” to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but ultimately “settled” on Musk. During the interview, Trump candidly expressed his desire for someone with exceptional intelligence, … Read more