Small New Hampshire town casts first votes on US Election Day

In the heart of northern New Hampshire, the small town of Dixville Notch kicked off the US Election Day with its traditional midnight vote early Tuesday (November 5). At midnight, the town’s six registered voters gathered at the Tillotson Room of the Balsams Resort to cast the first votes on Election Day. Residents have cast […]

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Kamala Harris – an iron lady with dreams and aspirations

“I am the first female Vice President, not Last.” These were the words of Kamala Harris who is the presidential candidate of Democrats in the upcoming US election.  The first Black-female vice president, first female Black-South-Asian attorney general of California, first US female senator with South Asian roots, Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California […]

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Donald Trump – A maverick who wants to ‘Make America Great Again’

NEW YORK – In 2004, the host of a famous reality TV show used to say his signature phrase “You’re fired”. It became a buzzword and began to be associated with his personality and people started recognising him through this catchphrase. Nobody could imagine that the very host, who used to shout ‘You’re Fired’ on […]

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Trump says ‘very confident’ of victory as US vote heads to wire

Donald Trump feels “very confident” about winning back the White House, the Republican said Tuesday after casting his Election Day ballot in Florida in one of the most contentious US elections in decades. “I feel very confident,” Trump told reporters at a voting facility in West Palm Beach, adding he believes he “ran a great […]

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Protests over Spain flood response interrupt king’s visit to stricken Valencia suburb

PAIPORTA (Pakistan Post) – Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb badly hit by last week’s deadly floods protested on Sunday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them. Chanting “Murderers, murderers!” they vented pent-up anger over what has been widely perceived by […]

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Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 9 people

MAUMERE, Indonesia — Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least nine people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.Authorities raised the danger level and widened the danger zone for Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on Monday, following a series of eruptions that began last week. The […]

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Harris and Trump will both make a furious last-day push before Election Day

WASHINGTON— A presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed off the ticket and multiple assassination attempts comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day. Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the […]

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Puerto Rico prepares for Election Day as a third-party candidate makes history

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds. For the first time in the island’s governor’s race, a […]

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Tether CEO denies probe from US federal investigators

 Tether CEO Paolo Adroino said on Friday that there was “no indication” that the cryptocurrency firm was under any investigation after a media report that the federal government was probing the company. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the federal government was investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules, citing […]

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Zelenskiy rejects UN chief’s plan to visit Kyiv over Russia trip

KYIV (PAKISTAN POST) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected a plan for the UN Secretary General to visit Kyiv due to Antonio Guterres’s attendance at this week’s BRICS summit in Russia, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Kyiv was enraged by Guterres’s appearance at the event in the city of Kazan on Thursday and […]

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