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U.S. President Joe Biden, under pressure from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday and is self-isolating after experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after Biden cancelled a speech due to the…

They were discovered in a room that had been locked from the inside, while a seventh person remains unaccounted for. Six people have been found dead in a luxury Bangkok hotel after a suspected deliberate poisoning. The three men and three women – four Vietnamese nationals and two Vietnamese Americans – were in a room locked from…

According to the Maritime Security Centre, the Comoros-flagged oil tanker, named Prestige Falcon, capsized southeast of Ras Madrakah near the port town of Duqm. After an oil tanker capsized off the coast of Oman on Monday, its 16 crew members, including 13 Indians, went missing, according to the Sultanate’s Maritime Security Centre (MSC) in a release on…

Donald Trump’s former leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, offered full-throated endorsements of his candidacy at the party’s convention on Tuesday, a display of unity three days after Trump survived an assassination attempt. Haley, who had described Trump as unelectable and unfit for office during her campaign, nevertheless urged her supporters…

Donald Trump made a triumphant entrance during the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday, receiving a raucous ovation from the party faithful two days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear. Trump walked into the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee with a thick bandage over the ear as the crowd chanted “Fight!…

Thomas Matthew Crooks has been described by classmates as a “loner” who regularly wore hunting outfits to school and was “bullied almost every day”. The 20-year-old lived in a well-off city in Pennsylvania. Thomas Matthew Crooks has been named as the gunman in the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday evening. Described…

The US President called for unity in America after Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden has stressed the need for divided Americans to come together as he addressed the nation, after Donald Trump was shot in an assassination attempt. Mr Biden said “politics should never be a political battlefield or,…

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 90 Palestinians in a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza on Saturday, the enclave’s health ministry said, in an attack that Israel said targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it remained unclear whether Deif and another Hamas commander had been killed and promised to continue to…

Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday campaign rally, in an attack that left the Republican presidential candidate’s face streaked with blood and prompted his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The shooter was dead, one rally attendee was…

The European Commission on Friday accused Elon Musk’s X of deceiving users and infringing digital content rules, putting the social media giant at risk of a hefty fine. The commission, which is the European Union’s executive arm, started an investigation last year to assess whether X is in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) — a…

Seeking to revive his struggling reelection campaign, President Joe Biden held a rare rally in Detroit on Friday, telling a cheering crowd he wasn’t going to leave the race and warning that Republican Donald Trump poses a serious threat. Biden, 81, is trying to shift the conversation from his mental sharpness and a growing number of Democratic…

The global population is projected to reach a peak of 10.3 billion people by the mid-2080s, according to the “World Population Prospects 2024” report released by the United Nations on Thursday. Compared to the current 8.2 billion in 2024, this is a huge growth. It is anticipated that after this high, the population would steadily fall to…

Allies of Joe Biden have said there is widespread sentiment he should drop out of the US presidential election and allow another Democrat to run. Joe Biden has mistakenly referred to Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” at the NATO summit – just hours after his allies warned his chances of winning the US election are zero. The…

The decision over the use of Storm Shadow missiles, which has been welcomed by Ukraine, represents a hawkish shift in policy from the stance taken by the former Conservative government. Sir Keir Starmer has told the Ukrainian president that British missiles can be used for defensive strikes against targets inside Russia. The announcement came as the new…

U.S. President Joe Biden faced fresh doubts on Wednesday about his re-election chances from heavyweights Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney, who may influence other Democratic lawmakers and financial donors, and two Senate Democrats. Biden must decide quickly whether to stay in the 2024 White House race, former House Speaker Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally, said on MSNBC…