An attempt by former president Jacob Zuma to have his 15-month jail term for contempt of court vacated by South Africa‘s highest court was denied on Friday, in a decision that was seen as a severe test of the country’s resolve to hold powerful persons accountable. The Constitutional Court affirmed its own conclusion that Zuma […]
The Philippines‘ government announced on Thursday that it will not cooperate with an ICC investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s infamous war on drugs, and will not allow any investigators in. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday approved a formal investigation into Duterte’s bloody campaign, in which thousands of suspected drug traffickers have died, many […]
According to a horrifying new allegation, a deranged doctor allegedly murdered her three daughters in their New Zealand house, only weeks after the family moved there from South Africa. Lauren Dickason, a 40-year-old orthopedic surgeon, murdered her 2-year-old twins Maya and Karla, as well as their older sister Liane, 6, in Parkside, a Timaru suburb, […]
Thousands of Central American refugees and migrants have gathered near a bridge connecting Mexico and Texas, creating a makeshift camp full of little supplies and intense heat. Bruno Lozano, the mayor of Del Rio, said that as of Thursday evening, 10,503 people have been under the bridge. People in the area said they had little […]
PIERS MORGAN has spoken out as a radio host who doubted the Covid vaccine is on a ventilator after contracting the virus. US radio host, Phil Valentine, 61; is currently on a ventilator in intensive care after he contracted Covid earlier this month. Valentine had previously told listeners of his ‘The Phil Valentine Show’ which […]
RAWALPINDI: Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday put to rest all rumours about privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA); saying the government had no plan to sell it off. Also, he rather says four new aircraft would add to the PIA fleet this year. Speaking at a press conference at PTI Public Secretariat here, the […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the influential New York Democrat, received some backlash over a tweet that showed profile photos of the bipartisan group of senators behind the infrastructure bill that advanced on Wednesday. Both Democrats and Republicans praised the bill’s momentum. President Biden himself called the day “historic.” But progressives have voiced their opposition and accuse the party […]
The crypto market is down 46% from its all-time high in May, but shrewd investors are celebrating the dip in prices. Because the IRS classifies digital currencies like bitcoin as property; losses on crypto holdings are to treat much differently than losses on stocks and mutual funds, according to Onramp Invest CEO Tyrone Ross. With crypto tokens, […]
San Francisco: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claims to be living in a modest $50,000; 37-square-metre prefab guest house in Boca Chica; Texas, has bought a $250,000 ticket to space from fellow billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk had bought a ticket for his space ride before […]
BEIJING: A Chinese man reunites with his kidnapped son after a 24-year; search that saw him travel half a million kilometres across China on a motorbike; chasing tipoffs on the boy’s whereabouts. Guo Gangtang’s son was just two years and five months old when he gets abduct in 1997 from in front of the family […]
