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The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday (February 11, 2025), a USAID official said, a day after his office published a report critical of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate the … Read more
Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned, Zhang gazed at … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump administration is prioritising relations with India and recognises that the country has the potential to transform the Indo-Pacific region and is an “important partner” when it comes to competing effectively with China, a former White House official has said. These remarks were made by Lisa Curtis ahead of Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
A federal research agency that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work. It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences will continue to exist after Mr. Musk’s team … Read more
Around 430 vessels have been identified as constituting the ‘shadow fleet’ globally. File | Photo Credit: Reuters As ageing and deficient tankers in the “Russian shadow fleet” traffic the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a major oil spill disaster looms, experts say. Security analysts say Russia is operating a large “shadow fleet” of hundreds … Read more
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI. File | Photo Credit: AP A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of … Read more
The curbs had forced Iranians to go for locally-produced vehicles long derided as ‘death wagons’. | Photo Credit: AP All architecture student Amirhossein Azizi wanted for his 19th birthday was the latest iPhone — and for Iran’s cash-strapped theocracy, it was just the gift they needed as well. Just buying a top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro … Read more
People mourn the death of a pupil stabbed to death allegedly by a teacher, outside of an elementary school in Daejeon, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP South Korean police on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) were questioning an elementary school teacher who allegedly stabbed a first-grader to death in the city … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the briefing with President of the European Investment Bank Nadia Calvino in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to swap land in negotiations with Russia, which freed an American prisoner in a gesture President Donald Trump described … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Marseille in southern France and paid homage to the memory of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, who attempted a “courageous escape” at the port city. He said, “I want to thank the people of Marseille and the French activists of that time who demanded that he not be handed over … Read more