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A caller who claimed to be John Barron from Virginia as he spoke to CSPAN after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs is going viral because the Internet is impressed by the near-perfect impersonation of President Donald Trump. Trump in the 1980s and ’90s used the alias John Barron to plant stories…
Exiled Iranian princess Noor Pahlavi who lives in Los Angeles said Iran has never been this close to a regime change and also the regime has never been this weak. In an interview with the California Post, Noor said the US military mobilization in the region gives her hope. “It’s literally a government waging war…
An Indian-origin political candidate has criticised South Australia’s Premier, saying his comments about immigration were insulting to migrants.Deepa Mathew, Family First’s South Australian upper house candidate, said she was hurt by remarks made by Premier Peter Malinauskas during a question-and-answer session in Adelaide this week.Speaking at an event organised by the Committee for Economic Development…
Former IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath has backed Indian-American lawyer Neal Katyal in questioning US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 15 per cent global tariff.Responding to Katyal’s post on X, Gopinath supported his argument that trade deficits and balance-of-payments deficits are conceptually different, a distinction central to the legal debate over the administration’s…
Emirates and Etihad cancelled multiple UAE–US flights due to East Coast blizzard warnings/Image: X Air travel between the UAE and the United States has been disrupted after a fast-developing Nor’easter triggered blizzard warnings along the US East Coast. Emirates and Etihad have cancelled and rescheduled several flights to and from New York, Newark and Boston…
A 23-year-old Indian man, Atharva Shailesh Sathawane, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of scamming elders in Florida. The sentence was announced in January but the case has now come to the attention of MAGA commentators as their anti-India sentiment becomes louder over incidents of visa abuse and…
A new Mona Lisa has appeared in El Salvador. But this isn’t Leonardo da Vinci’s original. Instead, it seems a local twist has been added, in more ways than one. A towering 13-metre mural now dominates a building in Zacamil, a working-class area of San Salvador. And it’s made entirely from recycled plastic bottle caps,…
Oman Education Ministry announces new teaching vacancies/Image: X Oman’s Ministry of Education has announced a new round of teaching vacancies in coordination with the Ministry of Labour, opening the door for graduates and aspiring educators to join the national school system. The move is aimed at strengthening the teaching workforce and supporting the sustainable employment…
Sheikh Saleh Al-Maghamsi has been appointed imam of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah/Image: X Sheikh Saleh bin Awad Al-Maghamsi has officially been appointed as an imam of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. He led his first Isha prayer at Masjid an-Nabawi on February 21, beginning his service at one of Islam’s most sacred sites.The appointment…
Hidden beneath Egypt’s shifting sands for almost a century, a missing piece of history has quietly returned. Archaeologists working in central Egypt have uncovered the upper section of a colossal seated statue of Ramesses II, one of the country’s most recognisable rulers. The fragment connects to a lower portion discovered in the 1930s, sparking renewed…
