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Trump reaped over $1b from fraud
Donald Trump sat in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday and listened to a New York state lawyer accuse him of generating more than $1 billion by lying about his real estate empire, claims the former president called a "scam."
The trial…
Nobel Prize jury ‘deeply regrets’ leak of laureates’ names
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel Chemistry Prize, apologised Wednesday for a mistake that saw the laureates' names released to Swedish media hours before the formal announcement.
"This is of course very…
US halts Gabon aid after coup
The United States said Tuesday it would halt assistance to Gabon after the military took charge last month. "The US government is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Gabon while we evaluate the…
Five Arab Israelis dead in latest shooting: police
Five Arab Israelis were killed Wednesday in a shooting in northern Israel, police said, the latest fatalities in a crime wave hitting the country's Arab minority.
Three men and two women were shot dead in the Bedouin town of Basmat…
Canada’s Trudeau apologises after Nazi veteran praised in parliament
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday formally apologized after the speaker of the House of Commons praised a Nazi veteran in the chamber while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was present.
Trudeau also said…
UK PM Sunak raises concern over interference in UK democracy with China’s Li
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had raised his concern over any Chinese interference in Britain's parliamentary democracy during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at a G20 summit in India, after the reported arrest of two…
Kim to hold arms talks with Putin
The US said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expects to hold arms talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The White House had warned last week that Russia was in active talks with North Korea to obtain weapons for its war in…
Putin, Kim begin talks at Russia’s Vostochny spaceport
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday began talks at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East after touring space rocket assembly and launch facilities at the spaceport.
Russian state…
North Korea test-fires missiles as part of mock ‘nuclear attack’
North Korea staged a "simulated tactical nuclear attack" drill at the weekend with mock atomic warheads attached to two long-range cruise missiles that were test-fired into the ocean, state-controlled media reported Sunday.
The…
Imran rules out ‘deal’, vows never to leave Pakistan: lawyer
PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is incarcerated in Attock Jail, has ruled out "any deal to seek his release and asserted he would never leave Pakistan," his lawyers claimed, after meeting the ex-prime minister.
Talking to journalists…