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01-05-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, while referring to the former president Donald Trump, sniped that he was also offered hush money to keep his speech short. The oldest president in US history Joe Biden, 80, while speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner kept the crowd engaged …

30-04-2023 EASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: As an attempt to ensure sanctions enforcement, the US has seized Iranian oil cargo triggering a similar response on Thursday from Tehran, reported media, citing a maritime security firm. As the oil markets are already affected by the Ukrainian crisis, the latest stand-off is a kind of …

30-04-2023 LONDON: A massive security operation will push the cost of the Coronation of King Charles III into the realm of £250million. A huge chunk around £150million will be needed to deploy thousands of police officers and protection squads, insiders reveal. The rest goes on staging the ceremony and three …

30-04-2023 LOS ANGELES: Firefighters battled the state’s first large wildfire of the year in rugged foothills east of Los Angeles barely five weeks after the last bout of heavy rain and snow in California’s historically wet winter. The Nob blaze has burned some 200 acres of bushes and grass in …

30-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv for the latest weekly protest against the government’s judicial reform plans just days before legislators return for a new parliament session. Opponents of the judicial reform bill have kept up demonstrations in the commercial hub and across the country …

30-04-2023 WASHINGTON/ MANILA: The United States has accused China of “harassment and intimidation of Philippine vessels” and called on Beijing to end “provocative” action in the South China Sea after a recent near-collision between a Chinese vessel and a Philippine Coast Guard boat. “We call upon Beijing to desist from …

30-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Hundreds of foreigners fleeing Sudan have arrived in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah, Saudi state media reported, as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire. A ferry with around 1,900 evacuees arrived at a Saudi naval base in Jeddah, …

30-04-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appeared in public for the first time in three days after a stomach infection kept him off the campaign trail before key presidential and parliamentary polls on May 14. Smiling and dressed in a red windbreaker, the 69-year-old leader walked out on …

30-04-2023 TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has told Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid that the presence of “even one American in Iraq is too many”. The two met in Tehran on Saturday in Rashid’s first visit to Iran as head of state since his election last October. Rashid …

30-04-2023 NEW YORK/ PRETORIA: As we mark World Immunization Week, UNICEF released last week The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination report, sending a red alert on the steep decline in routine childhood immunization coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines have proven to be one the …