US President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, is under investigation by federal regulators over alleged insider trading on prediction market platform Kalshi, while the White House has placed him on unpaid leave, according to Reuters.The investigation centres on trades allegedly placed on Kalshi’s “mention markets,” where users bet on whether specific words or…
Fugitive in Ziaur Rahman assassination case arrested by Bangladesh detectives DHAKA: Former Bangladesh army Major Muzaffar Hossain – allegedly one of the masterminds and assassins of PM Tarique Rahman’s father and former President Ziaur Rahman – has been arrested after being at large for 45 years.The arrest of Hossain – identified in historical records and…
KYIV, UKRAINE: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest the ouster of his youthful defense minister – seen as an innovator of the country’s successful drone technology but who clashed with the traditional military establishment. The personnel overhaul, which included replacing his prime minister,…
Stranded for 12 hours with no signal and fading hope, a father and son were rescued from one of Australia’s most remote corners by a billionaire A Melbourne father and son who were stranded for 12 hours without mobile phone coverage in the remote South Australian outback were rescued in an extraordinary way… by a…
Quote of the day by Richard Nixon from his farewell speech at the White House. On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon, the 37th US president, announced his resignation, triggered by several scandals. The next day, Nixon delivered his farewell speech to his staff. It was a long speech in which he addressed the controversies that…
No Green Card if you are going to be a burden on the US government. Green Card gives permanent residency to an immigrant in the US. But no one should obtain that residency if they rely on taxpayers’ money and use benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, housing etc. The Trump administration issued this new rule,…
Pakistani MP challenges their military ( Image quality improved using AI) Pakistani politician and chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, delivered a blistering critique of Pakistan’s military and government, accusing them of failing to maintain order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan while warning that the country’s Pashtun regions were “drowning in blood.”“The country is…
Visual of collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa (Source: Reuters) An Italian court on Thursday convicted the former CEO of Italy’s main highway operator and 29 others in the 2018 Genoa highway bridge collapse that killed 43 people, a disaster that exposed serious lapses in the maintenance of Italian infrastructure.The former chief executive of highway operator…
Image credit: The Japan News A midwife in Japan has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 75-year-old hospital patient by contaminating his intravenous drip with human feces, police said Thursday.Miyuki Furukawa, a nurse at Kashiwa Tanaka Hospital in Chiba Prefecture, was arrested on July 15 and has been sent to prosecutors. She has denied…
For decades, the icy waters of Antarctica became the stage for one of the world’s most high-profile environmental confrontations. On one side was Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose activists chased, blocked and attempted to disrupt Japanese whaling vessels in a bid to stop the annual hunts. On the other was Japan’s whaling fleet, which maintained…
