Skip next section India’s Modi says he’s en route to Kazan, seeking to build on Russia ties 10/22/2024October 22, 2024 India’s Modi says he’s en route to Kazan, seeking to build on Russia ties Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said early on Tuesday that he had departed for the BRICS summit in Russia’s southwestern city of…
Text size Chinese President Xi Jinping departed on Tuesday on his way to a BRICS summit in Russia, state news agency Xinhua said. Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit, which is the biggest such meeting in the country since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. mjw/oho/mca Source…
President Joe Biden fought back tears while reciting the lyrics to “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” at a ceremony honoring recipients of the National Medal of the Arts and National Medal of the Humanities on Monday. The president received multiple standing ovations while giving the keynote address to recipients of the prestigious awards from the…
US President Joe Biden recognised more than 20 artists, musicians and other creatives in a ceremony at the White House on Monday (21 October) with a National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and art patrons by the federal government for contributions to American art. This year’s ceremony honoured recipients of both…
Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post have initiated legal proceedings against Jeff Bezos-backed AI firm Perplexity, alleging unauthorized use of their content and redirection of traffic to its platforms. What Happened: On Monday, the News Corp NWSA-owned entities claimed that Perplexity has been using their copyrighted material to train its AI, thereby enabling users…
Jeff Bezos thinks the world has vastly improved from where it was a hundred years ago — except for this one thing: The state of the planet and its natural resources. “The world is so much better today than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago,” Bezos, 60, said during…
President Joe Biden on Monday honored acclaimed filmmakers, singers, writers and others who have made their mark on American culture, awarding the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients.Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Ken Burns and singers Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah were among 20 recipients of National Medals…
The Harris-Biden administration extended a moratorium Monday on federal student loan repayments pending the outcome of legal challenges against the debt cancelation plan. Roughly 8 million borrowers enrolled in the administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education [SAVE] plan will be excused from making monthly payments for at least another six months under the extension, which…
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, will meet the UN secretary general, António Guterres, on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine conflict, according to the Kremlin, in what would be the UN chief’s first trip to Russia in more than two years. The UN did not immediately confirm the planned meeting, which Ukraine strongly criticised, saying: “The UN…
The question that persists with Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in a prison camp in February, is: having managed to escape his homeland, what on earth persuaded him to return? A constant and effective critic of the tyranny Vladimir Putin has since the 2000s imposed on the Russian people, Navalny barely survived a…