Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed that President Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris were “so nice” in their calls made after the second assassination attempt on him.While speaking at a campaign town hall in Michigan, Trump described his conversation with Biden, saying, “He was so nice to me yesterday. In one…
The U.S. Federal Reserve is on Wednesday heading for its first interest rate cut since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic — and despite the move being widely forecast, global investors are braced for impact. The Fed is behind a swathe of its central bank peers, including those in the euro zone, the U.K., Canada,…
Doha, Qatar: The Institute for Population Health (IPH) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) has successfully concluded its Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine (CLM) programme, reflecting growing interest among healthcare practitioners in integrating lifestyle medicine into their practice. Fifty healthcare professionals from Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and the United States attended…
A boy is in hospital after he was attacked by a man with a knife on the way to his Japanese primary school in Shenzhen, southern China on Wednesday morning. A Japanese government source has told Kyodo News that the boy – whose condition is unknown – was the victim of a stabbing. Earlier reports…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Sultan Ibrahim will visit China for a four-day visit, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, with the ceremonial ruler from the southern state of Johor likely to seek support to revive projects boosting its connectivity to neighbouring Singapore. Sultan Ibrahim was installed as the country’s 17th king in January, under a…
A 47-year-old Bangladeshi passenger has died after fainting on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Dhaka to Hong Kong. Hong Kong police said they received a report shortly after 8am on Wednesday that the man collapsed on flight CX662 arriving from the Bangladeshi capital. Officers declared the man dead at the scene, the force said,…
As India races towards EV adoption, inconsistent policies and the lack of a robust charging infrastructure pose significant hurdles to the transition. Electric vehicles are seen as the future of sustainable mobility, both in India and around the world. The global shift towards EVs has been driven by mounting concerns over air pollution, rising fossil…
Vice President Kamala Harris, left, at the White House, Washington, July 22, 2024, and former President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, Aug. 15, 2024. Nathan Howard | Jeenah Moon | Reuters For the first time in the 2024 election cycle, Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed as more likely than former President Donald Trump to…
News of a delay in one important activity spooked investors. Accenture‘s (ACN -4.82%) top news item Tuesday wasn’t all that encouraging and in reaction, investors traded the company’s stock down by more than 4% on the day. The storied consultancy is delaying its annual round of promotions, a move that could affect hundreds, if not…
Lenovo Group started building artificial intelligence (AI) servers in India’s south, the latest boon for the rapidly growing country’s push to become a hi-tech powerhouse. The company said Tuesday it has started making the large, powerful computers in Pondicherry, southeastern India, moving beyond products such as laptops and smartphones. The Chinese company will also build…