President Donald Trump is seen on the television as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, on April 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Wall Street stocks surged higher early Tuesday (April 8, 2025) as global markets rallied following deep losses in hopes of trade agreements that would … Read more
At least 18 people died, and more than 120 were injured after a roof fell at a nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic. File | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 18 people died, and more than 120 were injured after a roof fell at a nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File | Photo Credit: AP President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday (April 8, 2025) that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting on Russia’s side in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war. Beijing is a close ally of Moscow but is not publicly known … Read more
“Our main goal in the talks, is naturally restoring rights of people as well as lifting sanctions and if the other side has a real will, this is achievable,” Abbas Araghachi said. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s Foreign Minister said on Tuesday (April 8, 2025) that he’ll meet with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman … Read more
Sanjay Bhandari. File photo: Handout | Photo Credit: The Hindu The High Court in London on Tuesday (April 8, 2025) refused the government of India’s application seeking permission to appeal in Britain’s Supreme Court against the discharge of Sanjay Bhandari, the defence sector consultant wanted in Delhi to face charges of alleged tax evasion and … Read more
File picture of South Korean soldiers patrolling along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea. | Photo Credit: AP South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals’ tense border on Tuesday (April 8, 2025), South Korean officials said. South Korea’s military said in a … Read more
In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that … Read more
In this handout photo provided by NASA, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, bottom, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, middle, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Zubritskiy, top, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft for launch on April 8, 2025 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. | Photo Credit: Getty Images NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates launched … Read more
After finalising development program arrangements in the tribal area, Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan would leave for Singapore on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, to visit his Mark Shankar, who was injured in a reported fire accident at his school. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu The scheduled tour of Deputy Chief Minister and … Read more
Representational image of a container ship in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. The trade war between U.S. and China have escalated China threatened Tuesday (April 8, 2025) to take countermeasures against the United States “to safeguard its own rights and interests” in response to President Donald Trump’s threat of an additional 50% tariff on … Read more