GAZA/TEL AVIV:A temporary truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas militants that was due to end at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Friday has expired, with neither side announcing a deal to extend it. In the hour before the truce was set to end, Israel said it intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza and Hamas-affiliated media … Read more
NEW DELHI: The White House has decided to forgo the tradition of displaying Christmas stockings for President Biden’s grandchildren this year. This change coincides with the President’s recent acknowledgment of his seventh grandchild for the first time. During a ceremony on Monday afternoon, First Lady Jill Bidenrevealed the 2023 Christmas decorations at the White House, … Read more
North Korea’s ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country’s launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon. Issued on: 27/11/2023 – 23:26 2 min Western powers, Japan and South Korea have said North Korea violated … Read more
WASHINGTON: The White House denounced Elon Musk on Friday for “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate,” for his endorsement of what an administration spokesperson called a “hideous lie” about Jews.All of which might make one think the Biden administration was going to try to pull back from doing business with the world’s richest person. … Read more
NEW DELHI: US President Joe Biden mistook Taylor Swift for Britney Spears during a speech he made on the annual Turkey Pardoning Day on Monday.Biden, who turned 81 on Monday, was in the midst of pardoning two turkeys, Liberty and Bell, when he inadvertently used the name Britney in reference to Taylor’s current international tour.Cracking … Read more
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age, even as the White House strongly defended his stamina and batted away polling — and one prominent Democrat — suggesting that the issue could cost him votes in next year’s election.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the … Read more
Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, who President Jimmy Carter called “an extension of myself” owing to his wife’s prominent role in his administration even as she tirelessly promoted the cause of mental health, died on Sunday at age 96, the Carter Center said. Rosalynn Carter, who in recent days had entered hospice care at home in … Read more
The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital to run its military operations, and probably to store weapons, saying those actions constituted a war crime. “We have information that confirms that Hamas is using that particular hospital for a command and control mode” and probably … Read more
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States was not seeking to distance itself from China but in fact wanted an improved relationship, as he prepared for a highly anticipated summit with President Xi Jinping in San Francisco.The two leaders will meet on the sidelines of the Apec summit in California for their … Read more
WASHINGTON: Satellite imagery shows progress in the construction in Russia of a plant that will mass produce Iranian-designed kamikaze drones that Moscow is expected to target against Ukrainian energy facilities, a research organization said on Monday. Despite the headway, neither the United States nor its allies have imposed sanctions on the plant’s owner, JSC Alabuga, … Read more