China’s global dominance in electric cars helped it overtake Japan as the world’s biggest vehicle exporter last year, official data confirmed Wednesday. Japanese giants such as Toyota and Nissan have been much more cautious than their Chinese counterparts, like BYD on electric vehicles (EVs), banking instead on hybrid models. Figures released Wednesday by the […]
A drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three American troops on Sunday, with President Joe Biden blaming Iran-backed militants and vowing to hold the perpetrators to account. It is the first time American military personnel have been killed by hostile fire in the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Sunday, saying he would throw his support behind frontrunner Donald Trump. In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, DeSantis said that after his second place finish last week in the Iowa caucuses he could not “ask our supporters to […]
30-year-old Deobra Delone Redden, who attacked a judge after being convicted in connection with a baseball bat attack has been sentenced to prison by the same judge. According to Sky News, he jumped over a court bench to attack the judge before engaging in an altercation with court officials at the Clark County District […]
Three ministers and four governors have been disqualified from last month’s election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, because of fraud and violence. They are among 82 candidates excluded from the legislative, provincial and local elections by the electoral body. But its announcement did not address the presidential election that saw President Félix Tshisekedi […]
Four people have been killed and 40 hospitalised after consuming tainted alcohol in southern Tunisia, an official said. An inquiry has been opened and the person who supplied the alcohol has been arrested, Fethi Baccouche, a spokesman for the Medenine court, told AFP. An analysis of the alcohol is underway to determine what was […]
Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched Friday for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating earthquake as the death toll approached 100. Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble on Thursday, but hopes of finding other survivors after the 7.5 magnitude quake on New Year’s Day were […]
A US strike in Baghdad on Thursday killed a pro-Iran military commander, the Pentagon said, with Al-Hashed al-Shaabi ex-paramilitaries saying it hit one of their headquarters. An Iraqi security official said two people were killed and seven wounded in the drone strike, which the government dubbed a “blatant aggression”. But Pentagon spokesman Major General […]
The President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, resigned on Tuesday after coming under attack for her handling of anti-Semitism during protests over Gaza, as well as allegations that she had plagiarised in her academic work. Gay was criticised in recent months after reports surfaced alleging that she did not properly cite scholarly sources. The […]
Five people on board a coast guard aircraft died after a runway collision with a Japan Airlines plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday, the Japanese transport minister said. “Regarding the coast guard plane, we have been informed that the captain escaped and five people were confirmed dead,” Tetsuo Saito told reporters. READ ALSO: […]
