US House censures lone Palestinian-American lawmaker over Israel comments on November 8, 2023The US House voted on Tuesday to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, Congress’s lone Palestinian American lawmaker, for comments she made regarding Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. Twenty-two Democrats joined with most Republicans in the chamber to censure Tlaib for allegedly “promoting false narratives” on Hamas’ Oct. 7 gun rampage in Israel and “calling for […]
Investors on edge as Middle East conflict intensifies on October 29, 2023Investors are watching over the weekend for signs of whether the conflict in the Middle East will escalate, which could ratchet up volatility in markets that already expected a busy week ahead with a Federal Reserve policy statement and Apple results. On Friday, Israeli air and ground forces stepped up operations in the Gaza Strip, […]
SpaceX signs deal to launch key European satellites on October 24, 2023SpaceX has signed a deal to launch up to four of Europe’s flagship navigation and secure communications satellites into orbit, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, along with EU member states, must still give final approval for the deal, the report added, citing officials. SpaceX and […]
Iran calls for Islamic countries to sanction Israel on October 19, 2023Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should impose an oil embargo and other sanctions on Israel and expel all Israeli ambassadors, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Wednesday. An urgent meeting of the OIC is taking place in the Saudi city of Jeddah to discuss the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after a blast […]
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize on October 6, 2023Iran’s imprisoned women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The award-making committee said the prize honoured those behind recent unprecedented demonstrations in Iran and called for the release of Narges Mohammadi, 51, who has campaigned for three decades for women’s rights and abolition of the death penalty. “We hope to […]
Australia at the ODI World Cup on October 2, 2023Australia are the only side in the game to have won the ODI World Cup five times with their former captain Ricky Ponting winning the title back-to-back in the year 2003 and 2007. This year, they are being led by pacer Pat Cummins and are not being termed the absolute favourites to win the title […]
Dollar shines as oil surge spooks investors on September 28, 2023Oil prices scaled one-year highs on Thursday, while world stocks eyed their longest losing streak in two years as worries deepened about persistently high interest rates, sending investors to shelter in the safety of a surging U.S. dollar. A surprisingly big drop in crude stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma, stoked concern that fuel demand is outstripping production […]
Canadian Sikhs stage protests against Indian government over murder on September 26, 2023Canadian Sikhs staged small protests outside India’s diplomatic missions on Monday, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there may be a link between New Delhi and the murder of a Sikh separatist advocate in British Columbia. Trudeau a week ago stood in parliament to say that domestic intelligence agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations tying […]
Sikhs in Punjab fear Canada-India row threatens them at home, abroad on September 25, 2023A bitter row between India and Canada over the murder of a Sikh separatist is being felt in Punjab, where some Sikhs fear both a backlash from India’s Hindu-nationalist government and a threat to their prospects for a better life in North America. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a plumber who left the north Indian state a quarter-century […]
Mexican police cuff crooked ‘demon doll’ Chucky on September 23, 2023Handcuffed, a knife still sticking out of his overalls, the Chucky doll hunches against the wall as police hold him by his bright orange hair to take his mug shot. In a bizarre twist, Chucky and his owner were taken into lock-up in a town in northern Mexico earlier this week. The puppet master, identified […]