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Video: Diljit Dosanjh Asks Pro-Khalistanis Waving Flag At Canada Concert To Leave
Singer Diljit Dosanjh's concerts have in the past seen pro-Khalistani flag-waving people try to disrupt the events
Republicans ‘concerned’ after Trump threatens to withdraw more US troops from Germany
US announced withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers last week after German chancellor said US was being ‘humiliated’ by IranDonald Trump has threatened to withdraw more US troops from Germany after stunning European leaders and some senior members of his own party by last week announcing the withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers from Germany.The move left 30,000 US troops still in the country, according to CNN. But Trump threatened on Saturday that more cuts were coming. “We are going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” he told reporters on Saturday. Continue reading...
Lived In US For 35 Years And 6 Weeks In ICE Custody, Indian Woman Released
She was released from ICE custody on April 30 after a federal judge ordered her release.
Starmer adviser held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech bosses
Exclusive: Varun Chandra’s talks with Google, Meta, Apple and others raise fears of ‘lobbying behind closed doors’An influential government adviser close to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech executives, the Guardian can reveal.The No 10 business aide Varun Chandra discussed regulatory changes, AI and Donald Trump’s second administration with tech corporations during confidential meetings between October 2024 and October 2025. In one meeting he offered to help a top executive meet the prime minister directly. Continue reading...
Lost ‘cloud’ of artist who wrapped the Reichstag to be created in UK gallery
Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Package on a CeilingChristo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their chance discovery.Christo had imagined a vast, internally illuminated suspended form, like a cloud, but technical constraints meant the plan was never brought to fruition. Continue reading...
US Carriers Offer 'Rescue Fares' To Fliers As Spirit Airlines Winds Down
Spirit Airlines has been in and out of bankruptcy since 2024, and the White House was recently considering a bailout.
US ‘drowning in misinformation’ under RFK Jr, autism advocates say
Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccinesMisinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories. Continue reading...
Marco Rubio to visit Rome, reportedly to ‘thaw’ US relations with Pope and Meloni
US secretary of state will be in Italian capital on Thursday and Friday, the one-year anniversary of Pope Leo’s papacyThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is to travel to Rome this week for a visit reportedly aimed at thawing frosty relations with the Italian government and the Vatican.Rubio is scheduled to be in the Italian capital on Thursday and Friday, which will also mark the one-year anniversary of the papacy of Pope Leo, the first US-born pontiff. Continue reading...
Indian Ship Carrying LPG Transits Hormuz In A Rare Crossing Amid US Blockade
The Marshall Islands-flagged Sarv Shakti - laden with around 45,000 tons of LPG, commonly used as cooking fuel - appeared to move into the Gulf of Oman after sailing past Iran's Larak and Qeshm islands.
40,000 Attend Illegal Rave Party On French Military Site
The gathering comes as the French parliament is seeking to tighten legislation against unauthorised rave parties, introducing prison sentences for organisers and fines for attendees.
‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters
Database could be used to regulate opponents, from ‘shutting off bank accounts’ to healthcare, official warnsDonald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said. Continue reading...
China Invokes First-ever "Blocking Order" Against US Sanctions: Report
The move specifically protects five major Chinese petrochemical firms recently targeted by Washington for their alleged involvement in the Iranian oil trade.
