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Pence, Giuliani will not cooperate in impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that they will not cooperate with a US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry, prompting a leading Democrat to say that would strengthen the case
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Erdogan defies Trump, no ceasefire in Syria
Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria yesterday despite US sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria’s Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by US forces. “They
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Trio wins economics Nobel for science-based poverty fight
STOCKHOLM: US based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for work fighting poverty that has helped millions of children by favouring practical steps over theory. French-American Duflo becomes only the second
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Nigerian police rescue 67 from ‘inhuman’ conditions at Islamic ‘school’
Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were shackled and subjected to “inhuman and degrading treatments.” The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, came
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Under pressure, Trump tells Erdogan to stop Syria invasion
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally, as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much criticised decision to clear US troops from Turkey’s
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Hawaiian family wins Guinness World Records title for biggest avocado weighing 2.5 kgs
Hawaiian family bags the Guinness World Records for the biggest avocado in the world. The avocado that won the family the title weighs 2.54 kilograms. Hawaiian family wins Guinness World Records for big avocado AHawaiian family recently won a place
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Hunter Biden disputes Trump attacks of his work
WASHINGTON: Hunter Biden, the son of former US vice president Joe Biden, for the first time yesterday defended his work in Ukraine and China, after sustained criticism from Republican President Donald Trump that has in turn embroiled the White House
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Twins With Down Syndrome Are Inspiring the World on Social Media
It may seem surprising that parents Julie and Dan McConnel are so comfortable sharing pictures of their twin boys, Milo and Charlie, on social media. The boys are photographed and filmed doing all sorts of daily activities, just like toddlers across
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Trump prepares to drop sanctions hammer on Turkey
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the US still has over NATO-ally Turkey. Using the
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Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
LONDON: Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at Britain’s University of Leeds, endorses
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