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A gold coaster reading “TRUMP” sits on the table in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC. | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. President Donald Trump promised a new “golden age” for the country. In the Oval Office, at least, he has lived up to his promise with a blingy makeover. The Republican … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. | Photo Credit: Reuters A top Russian security official travelled to North Korea on Friday (March 21, 2025) to meet leader Kim Jong Un, after North Korea recently reportedly sent additional troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. A brief dispatch by Russia’s state-run news agency Tass … Read more
Three Indian nationals were arrested for allegedly smuggling 106 kg of crystal meth aboard the Legend Aquarius cargo vessel | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Three Indian nationals accused of drug trafficking aboard a Singapore-flagged vessel who have been detained in Indonesia since July 2024, face the death penalty, a media report said on Friday (March … Read more
The Sudanese Army General Command building bears traces of artillery shelling in Khartoum, Sudan. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sudan’s military said it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting. Social media videos showed its soldiers inside giving the date … Read more
Namibia’s President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Southern Africa’s desert nation of Namibia swears in its first woman President Friday (March 21, 2025) after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power. Ms. Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, will become one of the few women leaders in the region … Read more
Donald Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip style had kept Americans on the edge of their seats during last year’s presidential campaign. But now that he is speaking as a President and not as a candidate, his words are being used against him in court in the blizzard of litigation challenging his agenda. The spontaneity is complicating his administration’s … Read more
An Indonesian volcanology agency official takes photos of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in East Flores, Indonesia on March 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted three times into Friday (March 21, 2025), sending an ash column 8,000 metres (26,200 feet) high and prompting authorities to expand the … Read more
South Korea and the United States have agreed to work together to swiftly resolve any fallout from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) designation of South Korea as a “sensitive country,” the Industry Ministry in Seoul said on Friday (March 21, 2025.) The DOE has not explained why it put its Asian ally on the … Read more
U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear next month Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana’s renewed application, submitted to Chief Justice John Roberts, seeking a stay of his extradition to India. Rana, 64, is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and submitted an “Emergency Application For Stay Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas … Read more
This frame grab taken from a UGC video shot and posted on X on March 21, 2025 by @fire_at_Vill shows a fire burning at a neighborhood electrical substation supplying power to Heathrow Airport in Hayes, west London. | Photo Credit: AFP Britain’s Heathrow Airport will be closed on Friday (March 21, 2025) after an electrical … Read more