Category: World

Saudi Arabia and European countries, as well as United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Malaysia, are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha today amid the coronavirus pandemic. In Indonesia, people donned face masks and had their temperatures checked as they arrived at mosques to perform prayers in mosques. The country’s religious ministry had asked mosques to shorten the gatherings this […]

WASHINGTON: Herman Cain, a television host and former Republican presidential candidate, died on Thursday after contracting Covid-19, according to a statement on his website and Facebook page. Cain, 74, was diagnosed with the disease late last month and later hospitalised after attending a Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally for President Donald Trump, where many attendees crowded close […]

WASHINGTON: Big Tech executives faced an onslaught of criticism from US lawmakers on Wednesday at a high-stakes antitrust hearing that could lay the groundwork for tougher regulation of the major internet platforms. CEOs Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google were grilled for more than […]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the nation’s November presidential election despite its date being enshrined in the country’s constitution, drawing immediate objections from Democrats. It was not clear if Trump was serious and any such move would require action by the US Congress, which holds the power to set […]

British TV personality Piers Morgan has come out with a candid claim addressing the “booze-sodden, drug-fuelled fights” Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are now known for. Morgan believes the ginormous and “shocking litany of allegations” the star couple racked up is preposterous even by the standards of Hollywood. In his piece for the Daily Mail, Morgan wrote […]

Member of the Council of Senior Scholars and Adviser at the Royal Court, Sheikh Abdullah bin Sulaiman in the Hajj sermon told the pilgrims gathered in Mount Arafat that the difficulties they face in this life were a test from Allah. Sheikh Abdullah bin Sulaiman, in his sermon from Masjid-e-Nimra on Thursday, thanked the Almighty […]

Masked pilgrims arrived on Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near the Holy Kaaba, to pray and repent on the most important day of the Haj, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The global coronavirus pandemic has cast a shadow over every aspect of this year’s pilgrimage, which last year drew 2.5 million Muslims from across […]

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers took on the Big Tech executives on Wednesday at a high-stakes antitrust hearing which could pave the way for tougher regulation of the major internet platforms. CEOs Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google were grilled for more than five hours in […]

One of the biggest reasons why Megan has stood behind her friends and has taken all steps necessary to stop them from being named, is because they only wished to “stand up against the global bullying we are seeing and speak the truth about our friend.” Meghan Markle’s fight against The Daily Mail and its parent company Associated […]

BEIJING: After three months, China reported 101 new coronavirus cases in a single day on Wednesday, as authorities ordered the closure of gyms, bars and museums in infection hotspots. Of the new cases, 98 were domestic infections, mostly in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a growing cluster first discovered earlier this month has prompted […]