In an unusual move, US President Donald Trump blocked Singapore-based Broadcom’s $140 billion bid for rival US chipmaker Qualcomm on grounds of national security. In a presidential order on Monday, Trump claimed that “credible evidence” had led him to believe that if Broadcom were to acquire control of Qualcomm, it “might take action that threatens […]
Republican Senator Jeff Flake slammed President Donald Trump’s newly signed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports while introducing a bill that would nullify them completely, the media reported. “Tariffs are bad enough on their own. Tariffs married with uncertainty are even worse,” CNBC News quoted the Arizona lawmaker as saying on the Senate floor on […]
Nearly half of US arms exports over the past five years have gone to the war-stricken Middle East, with Saudi Arabia consolidating its place as the worlds second biggest importer, a report revealed on Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) isaid that global transfer of major weapons systems between 2013 and 2017 rose […]
A helicopter crashed in New York City’s East River on Sunday, killing at least two people, according to police. “A helicopter earlier this evening descended into the East River near East 90 St.,” said the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Twitter. Eric Phillips, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said on Twitter that […]
The US government will not make concessions during negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and will demand that Pyongyang’s halt its missile tests and open the door to denuclearizing, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. “While these negotiations are going on, there will be no concessions made. President Trump isn’t doing this for […]
Services at London’s King’s Cross and Manchester Piccadilly ground came to a halt amid demonstrations against Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria on Sunday, media report said. Waving flags in support of a number of Kurdish organisations, the demonstrators disrupted transport networks for a number of hours, Xinhua reported. At the time of Manchester Piccadilly’s […]
Amnesty International released a report on Monday condemning the escalating militarisation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, from which at least 688,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. According to Amnesty, the Myanmar security forces were building bases in the region and bulldozing all the buildings in the villages where the Rohingya, […]
Multicultural March is a particularly exciting time for me as Minister for Multiculturalism. It is an opportunity for us to recognise and celebrate the rich cultural diversity of NSW. In NSW, we come from 307 ancestries, practice 146 religions and speak more than 215 languages. We are the sum total of every nationality in the […]
Germany will finally have a new government after the September 24 elections as the Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Sunday voted in favour of a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservative Union, paving the way for her fourth term. In the internal referendum of the 463,000 plus SPD members, over 66 per cent of […]
The Indian and Pakistani forces traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district late on Saturday, Defence Ministry sources said here on Sunday. “Pakistan Army resorted to heavy unprovoked shelling and firing in Balakote sector. “They used small arms, automatics and mortars to target Defence and civilian facilities. […]