Ms Alinejad, meanwhile, had a distrust of authority at a young age, reportedly being expelled from secondary school for challenging its religious teachings before she headed to Tehran to become a journalist. She was catapulted to fame as a reporter in the Iranian parliament, questioning powerful men in a country where women do not have…
Top Hong Kong government adviser Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has said any request to release former media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying from jail will amount to interference in the city’s rule of law, after US President-elect Donald Trump earlier pledged to get him out of the country. “The United States has often called for Jimmy…
Mr Trump has previously said he will end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office, but has provided few details on how he will achieve this. One plan that he is thought to be considering involves using British and European troops to enforce an 800-mile buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies. Ukraine…
Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Donald Trump on his sweeping victory in the US presidential election, setting the tone for a geopolitical rematch between the two most powerful leaders in the world. Xi told Trump on Thursday that China and the US would “benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation”, official news agency Xinhua reported….
The Philippines is likely to maintain a “low-intensity” approach to China in the transition period after the United States election, a survey by a Beijing-based think tank has concluded. The South China Sea Probing Initiative spoke to six analysts about how they expected the territorial dispute to unfold in the wake of Tuesday’s vote, including…
Elon Musk dispatched an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to secure last-minute votes on Election Day. The billionaire tech mogul’s America PAC is targeting would-be Trump voters who filed their initial ballots with errors, meaning they would be rejected in the final count. It is a highly expensive and unusual tactic, but could yield the small…
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the parent company of the former president’s Truth Social platform, jumped more than 15 per cent on Tuesday as voters head to the polls. The stock, which trades as the ticker symbol DJT, is notoriously volatile and is broadly considered a meme stock. The former president’s odds improved in…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Political Action Committee (PAC) has told a Philadelphia court on Monday that “winners” of his $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes in swing states are not chosen by chance but are instead chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the group. The recipients on Monday and Tuesday will come from Arizona and…
Washington, United States: It has been a wild US presidential election campaign, and the final week provided another selection of weird and wonderful offbeat moments. Biden’s baby bite President Joe Biden took a playful bite into the leg of a baby dressed as a chicken at the White House’s Halloween party. The 81-year-old pretended to…
Both the SNL and Fallon skits featured the real and mock politicians staring at each other through a mirror. Ms Harris used the primetime appearance to poke fun at Trump, days after a viral video showed him struggling to climb into a garbage truck in Wisconsin while wearing an orange fluorescent safety vest. In a pep…