Showing 1 - 10 of 118
Who Owns TikTok in the US Now?
Published on 23/01/2026
» NEW YORK - TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has just spun out an American venture to operate the popular video app in the United States. The deal, announced on Thursday, is part of an effort to comply with a 2024 federal law that aimed to separate TikTok from ByteDance to address national security concerns over the app’s ties to Beijing.
LA unrest marks latest clash of US presidents, states over National Guard
AFP, Published on 09/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's deployment of California's National Guard marks the first time in decades that a US president openly defied a state governor and sent troops to an emergency zone.
Scientists detect shape-shifting along Earth’s solid inner core
Kenneth Chang of The New York Times, Published on 11/02/2025
» NEW YORK - The inner core at the centre of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) wide, may not be perfectly solid. A new study finds evidence that the inner core’s outer boundary has noticeably changed shape over the past few decades.
Frustration deepens two years after UN report on China abuses
Reuters, Published on 31/08/2024
» GENEVA - Human-rights groups and the United Nations (UN) are using Saturday's two-year anniversary of a landmark UN report to call for action on the document which said that China may have committed crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.
Planned US execution by nitrogen gas criticised
Reuters, Published on 03/01/2024
» GENEVA - United Nations experts have called on US authorities not to go ahead with the planned execution of an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, saying the method may subject him to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture”.
US revives abandoned Pacific airfield
AFP, Published on 30/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived.
Anguished parents seek answers in Canada 'suicide kit' probe
AFP, Published on 13/10/2023
» WINDSOR, Canada: The moment Kim Prosser learned that her 19-year-old son Ashtyn had died by suicide, she says she dropped to the floor, where she lay "shaking and so cold".
Trump to surrender in Georgia Thursday to face racketeering charges
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» ATLANTA - Donald Trump said he will turn himself in on Thursday in Georgia to face racketeering and other charges stemming from his bid to overturn the 2020 election.
$200,000 bond for Trump in Georgia racketeering case
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» ATLANTA - A Georgia judge approved a $200,000 bond for Donald Trump on Monday in the racketeering case filed against the former US president in the southern state.
At least 36 dead in wildfire-ravaged Hawaiian town
AFP, Published on 10/08/2023
» KAHULUI, Hawaii: At least 36 people have died after a fast-moving wildfire turned a historic Hawaiian town to ashes, officials said on Wednesday, as visitors asked to leave the island of Maui found themselves stranded at the airport.