Russia and China are not sending their leaders to a Brics summit starting in Brazil on Sunday in what may be a sign that the group’s recent expansion has reduced its ideological value to the two founding members. China’s 72-year-old leader, Xi Jinping, has attended Brics summits for the past 12 years. No official reason…
Here are the key events on day 1,227 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Saturday, July 5 : Fighting Russian air defences have downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in widely dispersed parts of the country, including two near the country’s second-largest city, Saint Petersburg, according to officials. All external power…
I’m officially at that point in the season where my go-to summer staples are starting to feel a little tired. After weeks of relying on the same trusty pair of blue denim shorts, I’m ready for a refresh—and in search of some fresh style inspiration. So, I’ve been scrolling through new-season looks, hoping to spot…
Elon Musk once touted the Cybertruck as a game-changing marvel, an all-electric, steel-clad juggernaut built to disrupt the pickup market and redefine automotive design. With its sci-fi styling and bold promises of performance and durability, it was more than just a vehicle; it was a symbol of Tesla’s audacious innovation. When deliveries began in late…
It was billed as the “wedding of the century”, said Camilla Tominey in The Daily Telegraph, but in the event, the Bezos-Sánchez nuptials in Venice last week did not exactly ooze “sophistication”. The three-day, multimillion-pound shindig was a “triumph of tackiness over taste” – from the foam party on Bezos’s $500 million yacht to the…
Ever since Donald Trump returned to power, pundits have struggled to find apt analogies for his style of governance. Some liken his loyalty demands, patronage networks and intimidation tactics to the methods of a mafia don. Others cast him as a feudal overlord, operating a personality cult rooted in charisma and bound by oaths, rewards…
CNN — As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump. An eye-opening survey published in March by Berlingske, a Danish daily newspaper,…
Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has signed his signature tax and spending bill, capping a months-long push to codify his top policy priorities into law. The sweeping bill has prompted controversy among both Democrats and members of Trump’s own Republican Party for its deep cuts to social safety programmes and the hefty sum…
WASHINGTON (KTUU) — With Congressman Nick Begich, R-Alaska, standing just to his right, President Donald Trump met his July 4 deadline signing his ’One Big Beautiful Bill mega bill into law – calling out Alaska’s senior senator by her first name. “I liked it because we had so much in there that no matter who…
Former Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Elon Musk are going for the jugular in their escalating feud. Bannon lashed out Friday after Musk polled his 220 million followers on X about launching a third party—the “America Party”—to challenge President Donald Trump and the GOP. “No, brother, you’re not an American. You’re a South African,” Bannon…