WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, saying the terror threat had moved elsewhere and that Washington needed to refocus resources on challenges such as China and the pandemic. President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would withdraw all forces from the […]
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. The Duke of Edinburgh, as he was officially known, had been by his wife’s side throughout her 69-year reign, the longest in British history, during which time
A group have been arrested in Dubai and charged with public debauchery after an outdoor nude photoshoot, BBC reported. Video footage posted online on Saturday shows a group of naked women having their photo taken on a balcony. Eight Russian women are among those detained, the Russian consulate said. The consulate described the charges as
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Uber has been ordered to pay $1.1m (£795,000) to a blind woman who was refused rides on 14 occasions, BBC reported. Lisa Irving said on some occasions, drivers were verbally abusive, or harassed her about transporting her guide dog, Bernie, in the car. One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has suggested founding an initiative from “democratic” countries to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as tensions spike between the Asian power and Western nations. Biden said late on Friday that he floated the proposal in a call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid a row over
