Category: News Desk

Wed 12 August 2026: United States President Donald Trump has described Democratic candidates in the midterm US elections as “jihadists” in an apparent reference to Muslim Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed securing his party’s nomination for the Michigan primary elections last week. The pronouncements fuel a proliferating wave of Islamophobic discourse among Republican lawmakers and elected officials in […]

Wed 12 August 2026: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country would “respond in kind” to the seizure of its merchant vessels by EU countries, defining such plans as “nothing more than piracy and robbery.” “If this begins to be implemented in practice, we will be forced to respond in kind,” Putin, attired […]

Tue 11 August 2026: US President Donald Trump reportedly carried out a highly secretive plane switch during his visit to Türkiye last month after American intelligence received what officials described as a credible threat linked to Iran. According to reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times, Trump was publicly expected to leave […]

Tue 11 August 2026: Rescue teams in Colombia are continuing a desperate search for survivors after the country was struck by its strongest earthquake of the century, leaving at least 132 people dead and causing extensive destruction across several regions. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck on Monday, with some of the worst damage reported in […]

Tue 11 August 2026: The State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas issued to foreign nationals during President Donald Trump’s term, according to a fact sheet released Monday. The department said the majority of the revocations followed law-enforcement encounters involving criminal activity. Other grounds cited included visa violations, fraud, calls for violence and national-security […]

Mon 10 August 2026: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia and neighbouring countries, prompting widespread evacuations. The earthquake struck on Monday near the municipality of San Jose del Palmar in Colombia’s Choco region, about 400km (250 miles) west of the capital, Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Colombia’s geological […]