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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. File | Photo Credit: AP Nikki Haley said on May 22 that she would vote for Donald Trump in the general election, encouraging the presumptive GOP nominee to work hard to win support from those who backed her in the primary. “I will be voting for Trump,” Ms. Haley, Trump’s…
The fall in activity in March follows year-on-year declines of 3.0% in February and 4.1% in January. File | Photo Credit: AP Argentina’s economic activity fell 8.4% in March from a year earlier, the country’s official statistics agency said on May 22, its fifth monthly drop in a row and the steepest fall since 2020….
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Australia has announced the first confirmed case of human bird flu in a child who is believed to have acquired it while in India some weeks ago, according to a media report on Wednesday. The child is no longer unwell. “A child in Victoria has been confirmed as having the first case of bird flu…
Former presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said she will vote for Donald Trump in November’s US election. Washington: Former presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said Wednesday she will vote for Donald Trump in November’s US election, ending months of silence after quitting the contest to choose a Republican to face Joe Biden. The former South Carolina governor,…
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A Ukrainian soldier walks in position on the front-line near Klishchyivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on March 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Russia said on May 22 that its forces had retaken Klishchiivka, one of a handful of villages on the eastern front that Ukraine took control of in a lacklustre counteroffensive last summer. Russian…
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China said on May 22 it would impose sanctions on a number of U.S. defence firms and several executives over Washington’s “economic coercion” against Chinese companies and its sales of arms to Taiwan. Beijing has bristled in recent days over the warm ties between Washington and Taipei, where Lai Ching-te was sworn in on Monday…
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A Palestinian woman walks past a house destroyed by an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, on May 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Egypt threatened on May 22 to withdraw as a mediator in Gaza ceasefire negotiations after CNN reported that Egyptian intelligence changed…
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia has launched a likely space weapon and deployed it in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, the Pentagon said. “Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a counter-space weapon presumably capable of attacking other…
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A suspect was arrested in Trainer, according to Chester Police Commissioner. (Representational) Washington: Two people were killed and three others sustained injuries and were rushed to a hospital in what officials called a workplace shooting in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, CNN reported. A suspect was arrested in Trainer, according to Chester Police Commissioner Steven Gretsky….
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More than 500,000 Jewish settlers are now estimated to be living in the West Bank. (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli military has approved permission for Israelis to return to three former West Bank settlements they had been banned from entering since an evacuation ordered in 2005, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The three settlements, Sa-nur,…
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