Former US president Donald Trump said a bullet grazed his ear after a gunman fired at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (July 13). The Secret Service says one person was killed and two others were critically injured. The suspected gunman is dead, officials said. The FBI said it was working with the Secret […]
China mocked America as President Joe Biden faltered and his Republican challenger Donald Trump made extravagant claims during their presidential debate on CNN on June 27. Chinese netizens taunted the aged adversaries. “One is a ‘mentally deranged felon’ and the other is an ‘elderly narcoleptic’,” said a post on Weibo. “Two people who are about […]
The well-heeled are just as likely to unseat politicians they don’t like as the hard-up. And their votes matter more. Or so it seems after the July 4 UK general election and the big pay-off for the Liberal Democrats. The Reform UK party led by Nigel Farage won 14 per cent of the votes cast […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks football is coming home again 58 years after England won the Fifa World Cup in 1966. He said this in Washington, where he met President Joe Biden less than an hour after England defeated the Netherlands 2-1 in the Euro 2024 semi-final on Tuesday (July 10). Asked if football […]
The Chinese Foreign Ministry greeted Labour’s victory in the UK elections with the hope of getting the Sino-British relationship moving on the right track. The ministry didn’t mention—though it no doubt remembered—that the new British prime minister Keir Starmer wanted Britain to be “weaned off” China only a year ago. A year is a long […]
Britain’s new prime minister Keir Starmer and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, agreed on one thing when they spoke for the first time on the phone on Saturday (July 7). They agreed to reach a free trade agreement soon. Earlier, Modi tweeted his good wishes to Starmer, congratulating him on his election victory. Negotiations began […]
In a rare television interview on Friday (July 5), President Joe Biden dismissed concerns over his age and fitness to serve a second term. “Do you have the mental and physical capacity to do it for another four years?” George Stephanopoulos of ABC News asked him during the 22-minute interview. “I believe so. I wouldn’t be […]
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is the new British Prime Minister after the Tories suffered their worst defeat in the July 4 general election. “We did it! Change begins now,” Starmer said in his victory speech after the Labour landslide ending 14 years of Tory rule. The outgoing Conservative prime minister, Rishi Sunak, conceded the […]
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, tipped to be the next British prime minister, insists the UK will not rejoin the European Union in his lifetime. Talking to reporters on Wednesday (July 3), the day before the UK general election, he ruled out rejoining the European Union (EU), the single market, or the customs union, says […]
