POWER CONFLICT: The US president threatened to deploy National Guards in Baltimore. US media reports said he is also planning to station troops in Chicago
US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to deploy National Guard troops to yet another Democratic stronghold, the Maryland city of Baltimore, as he seeks to expand his crackdown on crime and immigration.The Republican’s latest online rant about an “out of control, crime-ridden” city comes as
For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and the once-rich fragrance is fading.“It’s the heat,” said Sayed, 45, who has spent nearly a decade working the
France has summoned US Ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat anti-Semitism.The French government on Sunday issued a statement announcing it had summoned Kushner to appear yesterday at the at the French
The world’s first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway’s coast has carried out its inaugural carbon dioxide injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating the site said yesterday.Northern Lights, led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, invo
CAMBODIALoss of citizenship passedLawmakers yesterday passed a law that would allow people convicted of treason to be stripped of their citizenship, a new measure that comes amid a sustained crackdown on opponents of the long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). The law, approved by 120 of the 125
Competitors take part in a 6.5km swimming race across the Bosphorus Strait, from the Asian side to the European side, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday.
CRIME: Over the past year, homicides in Chicago have fallen by more than 30 percent, robberies by 35 percent and shootings by almost 40 percent, the city’s mayor said
The Pentagon is working on plans to deploy the US military to Chicago as US President Donald Trump says he is cracking down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The US Department of Defense planning, in the works for weeks, involves several o
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight on several Russian power and energy facilities forced capacity reduction at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and set a fuel export terminal in Ust-Luga on fire, Russian officials said yesterday. A drone attack on the Kursk nuclear plant, not far from the border with Uk
Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are having their features scanned by real-time facial recognition systems in the UK — the only European country to deploy the technology on a large scale. At London’s Notting Hill Carnival, where 2 million people were expected to celebrate Afro-Ca
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from US strikes angered US President Donald Trump, two people familiar with the decision and a White House official said. US Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse wou
Three former presidents of Sri Lanka yesterday expressed solidarity with jailed former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe and condemned his incarceration as a “calculated assault” on democracy. The trio, former political rivals of Wickremesinghe — president between July 2022 and September las
TUG-OF-WAR: Abrego Garcia had been mistakenly deported to a notoriously rough prison in El Salvador, then returned to US soil only to be detained again
The US government intends to deport a Salvadoran man at ground zero of US President Donald Trump’s war on illegal immigration to Uganda next week, his lawyers said on Saturday. In a filing, the lawyers asked courts to dismiss the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on grounds that it is a vindictive a
Corgis compete in a 50m race as part of this year’s Corgi Race gathering in Vilnius on Saturday. For the fourth time, Vilnius hosted the two-day Corgi Race and costume contest, inviting corgis from across Europe.
‘DELIBERATE PROVOCATION’: Pyongyang said that Seoul had used a machine gun to fire at North Korean troops who were working to permanently seal the southern border
South Korea fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers that briefly crossed the heavily fortified border earlier this week, Seoul said yesterday after Pyongyang accused it of risking “uncontrollable” tensions.South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has sought warmer ties with the nuclear-armed North
The Texas Senate gave final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map early yesterday, sending it to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his signature.US President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the Republican Party maintain its slim majority in the US Congress in next y
A Gambian man convicted of torturing opponents of the African country’s former president was sentenced to more than 67 years in a US prison on Friday.Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the “Junglers,” which answered to then-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh.Correa was convicted b
The British government on Friday extended the deadline until October to decide on whether to approve China’s plans to build the largest embassy in Europe in London after Beijing refused to fully explain why the plans contained blacked out areas.China’s plans to build a new embassy on the site of a t
‘LOVED TO DEATH’: Eibsee lake is joining other popular destinations in re-evaluating the pros and cons of drawing so many visitors, but for now they can live with the crowds
A picture-perfect Alpine mountain lake in Germany draws so many visitors every summer that the first thing they see is crowded busses, traffic jams and a packed-out carpark.The crystalline waters and mountain vistas of Bavaria’s Eibsee lake have become a hit on social media, fueling fears it would b
The world’s leading authority on food crises on Friday said that the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.Famine is happening in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands
RSS