MAY 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended his recommendation the State Department's inspector general be fired, saying he should have done it earlier, and rejected claims his decision was motivated by political retaliation.
However, Pompeo in a news conference declined to explain the rationale for the firing of Steve Linick, who congressional aides...
MAY 20, 2020
Prince Charles visits Swiss Cottage Farmers' Market, in London, on November 6, 2019, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. - Eddie Mulholland/Getty
Prince Charles has been accused of "playing the lord of the manor" after urging furloughed workers in the U.K. to pick fruit for minimum wage.
Britain does not have enough people to collect this year's harvest after...
MAY 19, 2020
Berkshire's Warren Buffett and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Johannes Eisele/Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images
SoftBank is often described as the Berkshire Hathaway of tech. That was once a flattering comparison. But the investing track records for the Japanese firm run by Masayoshi Son and have soured lately.
SoftBank has been hit hard by the huge drop in the share prices of public...
MAY 19, 2020
US President Donald Trump. - MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to walk out of the World Health Organisation, accusing the Tedros Adhanom-led global health body chief of acting at China's behest and mismanaging the Covid-19 pandemic in the early stages.
"It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in...
MAY 19, 2020
Chinese troops have bolstered their border control measures in the Galwan Valley in the Aksai Chin region of the Sino-India border, official media reported on Monday. The Chinese action followed “India’s recent, illegal construction of defence facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region”, a write-up in the state-run Global Times tabloid said,...
MAY 19, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA - SEPTEMBER 21: Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on September 21, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Midterm election day is November 6th. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is a master manipulator of language -- and the media. Using...
MAY 18, 2020
India on Monday recorded its biggest single-day jump in cases with 5,242 cases and 157 deaths, taking the total infections to 96,169 and total fatalities to 3,029.
As the country entered the fourth phase of the nationwide lockdown, many state governments, including Karnataka, Gujarat and Assam too extended the lockdown in their states and issued guidelines allowing for...
MAY 18, 2020
Taliban on Monday (May 17, 2020) clarified that Kashmir is India's internal matter and they don't support any Pakistani style "Ghazwa-E-Hind" or Holy war against India, after fake tweets attributed to the group circulated on social media.
In a tweet, Suhail Shaheen spokesperson Taliban Political Office, Doha, said, "The statement that has been circulated in certain...
MAY 18, 2020
Migrant workers clean fields near Salinas, California, on March 30. - Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Starting today, undocumented immigrants in California can begin applying for financial assistance to support them during the coronavirus pandemic -- in the first relief fund of its kind.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the $125 million coronavirus disaster relief fund last month to support undocumented immigrants...
MAY 18, 2020
President Trump greets troops during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. - Alex Brandon/AP/file
President Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two decade-long war, making a sweeping statement about military efforts as...
