WASHINGTON: The US announced $350 million in ammunition, river boats and other equipment for Ukraine’s military as part of a broader effort by the country’s allies to keep it from running out of artillery shells and missiles in the face of Russia’s invasion.Among the supplies announced Monday was ammunition for HIMARS rocket-launcher systems and howitzers, … Read more
NEW YORK: Workers erected barricades around a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as New York City braced for a possible indictment of Donald Trump over an alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.It would be the first-ever criminal case against any US president. On Saturday, Trump urged followers on social media … Read more
WASHINGTON: Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time, at the age of 92 years, he said Monday in an interview with his own newspaper, the New York Post.Murdoch is engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former police chaplain in San Francisco and widow of American country singer and … Read more
LAHORE: Pakistan‘s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has requested the country’s chief justice to allow him to join court proceedings through a video link in cases lodged against him, claiming he could be killed if he deposes physically.In a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial on Monday, the embattled PTI chief also … Read more
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.“We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19’s origins…, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” … Read more
NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented development that has escalated the face-off between the Centre and the Delhi government to a new level, the latter was on Monday virtually stopped by the Union ministry of home affairs from presenting its annual budget in the Vidhan Sabha over queries on its proposed expenditure on advertisements and publicity … Read more
WASHINGTON: The White House urged Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to use his visit to Moscow this week to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and end Russia’s war against Ukraine.John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, told reporters the United States is concerned that Xi, currently on a trip … Read more
PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron‘s government narrowly survived a no confidence motion in the National Assembly on Monday, after bypassing the lower house to push through a deeply unpopular change to the pension system.Some 278 MPs voted in favour of a tripartisan, no confidence motion tabled by a centrist party and others, just nine short of … Read more
NEW YORK: America readied itself Monday ahead of the possible historic indictment of Donald Trump over a hush-money case, with the former president calling for mass demonstrations if he is charged.Trump supporters were scheduled to protest in New York later Monday as Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg weighs charging the ex-president over a payment to … Read more
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe‘s office said on Monday that the International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved a $2.9 billion bailout for Sri Lanka which will overall give it access up to $7 billion in funding.The IMF program will help improve Sri Lanka’s standing in international capital markets, the president’s office said in a … Read more