Saudi Arabia has suspended travel and visas for DR Congo, Uganda and South Sudan. Saudi Arabia has barred its citizens from travelling to three African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan, and has suspended the issuance of all visas for travellers arriving from these nations as part of new measures…
JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, discuss her $8.75 Old Navy dress US Vice President JD Vance seized on his wife’s bargain maternity dress to score a political point on federal spending, after US Second Lady Usha Vance mocked a New York Times column that analysed the “political symbolism” of her pregnancy wardrobe.In a…
Norman Rockwell’s 1943 masterpiece So You Want to See the President! is now on public display in Washington, D.C. One of Norman Rockwell’s most remarkable works has gone on public display for the first time, bringing together a fascinating mix of American history, courtroom drama and an unexpected wartime romance. The four-panel painting, So You…
US Supreme Court allows Trump to end protected status of Haitian and Syrian immigrants The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of a humanitarian status that protects them from deportation, giving another boost to the president’s hardline approach toward immigration.The 6-3 ruling,…
A PhD student, scrolling through publicly available survey material from a Mexican environmental project, noticed shapes that didn’t sit comfortably with the idea of untouched jungle. The files had been online for years; nothing new about them. But once processed through archaeological mapping techniques, the patterns stopped looking like random terrain. Roads, raised platforms, and…
TOKYO: A powerful earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan during rush hour on Thursday morning, but the country’s meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami and no serious injuries were reported. The temblor shook dozens of towns across northeastern Japan and was even mildly felt in the capital, Tokyo. It…
Authorities shifted rescue personnel from across the country to the hardest-hit regions, particularly La Guaira state on Venezuela’s northern coast, where numerous buildings collapsed. Rescue teams intensified operations across Venezuela on Thursday after two powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday evening, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping an unknown number…
“The stupidest farmers have the biggest potatoes” There is a bluntness to German folk sayings that feels almost uncomfortable in its honesty. One of the most striking is: “Die dümmsten Bauern haben die größten Kartoffeln.” Literally translated, it reads: “The stupidest farmers have the biggest potatoes.”At first glance, it sounds like an insult wrapped in…
94-year-old woman appeals for Indian citizenship in Andhra Pradesh, says she wants to die as an Indian. 94-year-old Kondragunta Mahalakshmamma became a US citizen in 2000 and lived in the US for nearly 18 years. Now, she wants to regain her Indian citizenship as the last wish of the Andhra Pradesh woman is to die…
Nigerian proverb of the day values experience, wisdom and insight. How can a man lying down see more than a person who is up in a tree? Possible because of the insight. If the man lying down has more insight than the man in the tree, it is absolutely possible and this age-old African saying…
