16 candidates, including former leader and Nobel prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta, are vying for office in Southeast Asia’s youngest country.Published On 19 Mar 202219 Mar 2022Voting is under way in East Timor, as Asia’s youngest nation holds its fifth presidential election since independence amid concerns over political stability and economic security. The 16 presidential hopefuls…Continue Reading
Chinese president made comments in call with US counterpart Joe Biden, just hours after a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through Taiwan Strait.Published On 19 Mar 202219 Mar 2022Chinese President Xi Jinping has told US President Joe Biden on Friday that the Taiwan issue needs to be “handled properly” to avoid having a negative effect on…Continue Reading
Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world’s largest Islamic organisation, has welcomed women into its top leadership roles for the first time since it was founded nearly 100 years ago. NU inaugurated more than 150 members, including 11 women, to its central board for a five-year term. Among the women appointed to the…Continue Reading
Ike Gazaryan says it began with phone calls. Then came the bad online reviews, the cancelled reservations, and the threatening notes. “Some of these phone calls are pretty disturbing,” said Gazaryan, owner of Pushkin Russian Restaurant in San Diego, California. “They’re yelling, saying, ‘You’re f***king Russian pigs, I hope you die.’” Gazaryan, who is Armenian,…Continue Reading
When the rest of the world looks at America’s gun problem, it’s often with bafflement. Sunday with Lubach, which is sort of like the Dutch version of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, looked at guns — specifically, the US’s love of firearms. And it’s very telling. For one, the satirical Dutch video describes America’s…Continue Reading
Joe Biden wanted to put Sarah Bloom Raskin into one of the most powerful positions at the Federal Reserve because she is an advocate of using the central bank’s regulatory powers to diminish the supply of fossil fuels. In an age of oil priced over $100 a barrel and the highest ever nominal price for…Continue Reading
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo reacted to The New York Times admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic by pointing out that then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe pushed back on assertions that the laptop was Russian misinformation back in October 2020. Bartiromo played a clip of…Continue Reading
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an admirer of Critical Race Theory, the “1619 Project,” and Black Lives Matter, all of which hold beliefs about the United States and its laws that make it impossible for her to serve in good faith on the Supreme Court. Her beliefs were revealed in a recently unearthed lecture delivered to…Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and crippling economic sanctions at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using language that recalls the rhetoric from Josef Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s.Putin’s ominous speech on Wednesday likened opponents to “gnats” who try to weaken the country at the behest of the West —…Continue Reading
Ukrainian ballet star Artyom Datsishin died Thursday from wounds he suffered amid Russian shelling weeks earlier, several of his colleagues said.Datsishin was a principal dancer at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv.“He was a beautiful dancer loved by his colleagues. Unbearable pain,” wrote Alexei Ratmansky, an influential Ukrainian choreographer who until recently was working…Continue Reading
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