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Representative image | Photo Credit: AFP Former President Donald Trump leads a pack of six Republican candidates jostling to be their party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden faces little opposition in the Democratic Party. Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov. 5, 2024, election between Jan 01, … Read more
More than 100,000 Russian troops have massed on Ukraine‘s border and in annexed Crimea, the office of the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said after EU foreign ministers were briefed by Ukraine’s foreign minister. In a press conference on Monday, Borrell had originally spoken of more than 150,000 troops, and declined to give a source … Read more
The United States on Thursday restricted trade with top Chinese supercomputing centers, saying that Beijing‘s growing efforts in the field could have military uses that pose dangers. The seven centers or entities were put on the US government’s entity list, which means they require special permission for exports and imports from the United States. “Supercomputing … Read more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken‘s first videoconference with European Union foreign ministers last month was so good humoured that some diplomats in Europe described it as a “love fest”. But two senior envoys who attended said there was no direct response from the ministers gathered in Brussels when Blinken said: “We must push back … Read more
The Chinese military criticised the United States on Thursday for undermining regional peace and stability after a U.S. Navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait a day earlier. A spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said in a statement the Chinese military tracked the USS Curtis Wilbur as the destroyer made what … Read more
TEHRAN: Iran‘s intelligence minister has warned the West that his country could push for a nuclear weapon if crippling international sanctions on Tehran remain in place, state television reported Tuesday. The remarks by Mahmoud Alavi mark a rare occasion that a government official says Iran could reverse its course on the nuclear program. Tehran has … Read more
DUBAI: Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the United States should lift all sanctions if Washington wants Tehran to reverse its nuclear steps. “Iran has fulfilled all its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal, not the United States and the three European countries … If they want Iran to return to … Read more
BEIJING/TAIPEI: China said on Wednesday it would make a “necessary response” to a planned military dialogue between the United States and Chinese-claimed Taiwan, saying it firmly opposed the event. China has been angered by stepped up support for the democratic island by outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, including new arms sales and visits to … Read more
The entire process had been encrypted. (Image: NASA) US Elections 2020: NASA astronaut casts vote from International Space Station! As part of the exercise to decide the next President of the United States of America, US citizens could either vote on the election day, or choose early voting or even cast votes through absentee ballots, … Read more