Greenlanders will vote in an election on Tuesday after hearing threats from US President Donald Trump that he wants to take over the semi-autonomous island.
There are more than 7,000 languages spoken worldwide across nearly 200 countries. This vast linguistic diversity influences how nations refer to themselves, with many using names in their native languages that differ from their commonly known English versions. Every year, on February 21, the United Nations observes International Mother Language Day to promote “the preservation…
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has rolled back a decade-old policy that prohibited immigration authorities from making arrests at sensitive locations, including schools, churches and hospitals. As the repercussions of the move set in on Wednesday, many of those living without documentation in the US expressed fears about the effects it would…
United States President-elect Donald Trump has lost an appeal to a jury’s 2023 finding that he was liable for sexual abuse and defamation related to an alleged attack on writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s. On Monday, a federal appeals court upheld the 2023 verdict in the civil case, in which Trump was not…
The US Supreme Court has refused to rescue TikTok from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds – a major blow to a platform used by nearly half of all Americans. The justices…
By Marium Ali Published On 27 Dec 202427 Dec 2024 facebooktwitterwhatsappcopylink
Taiwan has detected 24 Chinese military aircraft near the island as a Canadian warship passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence says. The Chinese aircraft included fighter jets and drones and were spotted on Sunday carrying out “joint combat readiness patrols” with military vessels around Taiwan, the ministry said in a…
