Author: Disha Mishra
(Forelines): Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Wednesday that the name “Gulf of Mexico” is internationally recognized, responding to comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about renaming the body of water, as per Reuters report. On Tuesday Trump had argued in favor of renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” as per Reuters report. Claudia Sheinbaum then took jabs at Trump, stating he (Trump) was living in the past, Reuters report. “I think they told President (elect) Trump wrong, they told him Felipe Calderon is still president,” Sheinbaum stated, according to Reuters report. Sheinbaum further stated, “But no,…
JERUSALEM, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Wednesday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency WAFA said, as Israeli strikes persisted following Monday’s killing of three Israelis in the territory. The Israeli military said its air force “struck a terrorist cell in the area of Tamun”, a town northeast of Nablus city. It told Reuters it was looking into reports children had been killed in the strike and would respond shortly. WAFA said two boys, aged nine and ten, were killed by a drone strike which also killed a 23-year-old man. There was…
(Forelines): India’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that India will consider involving in development projects in Afghanistan in the near future, despite the absence of diplomatic ties, reported by Reuters. The statement came after a meeting in Dubai between Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, as per Reuters report. “In response to the request from the Afghan side, India will provide further material support in the first instance to the health sector and for the rehabilitation of refugees,” said in the statement quoted by Reuters. India has sent multiple shipments to Afghanistan,…
BEIRUT, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel’s war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the group’s ally Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria. The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country’s sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October, 2023. None of the political groups in the 128-seat parliament have enough seats to impose their choice, and they have so far been unable to agree on a consensus candidate. The vote marks…
HONG KONG/TAIPEI Jan 8 (Reuters) – The Chinese director of a firm whose vessel Taiwan suspects of having damaged an undersea communications cable said on Wednesday there was no evidence the ship was involved, an incident that has alarmed the government in Taipei. Taiwan’s coast guard said it sent a ship to investigate a report on Friday from telecoms provider Chunghwa Telecom that an undersea communications cable had been damaged off the island’s north coast. Arriving at the scene it found the Chinese-crewed “Shunxin 39”, registered both in Cameroon and Tanzania, which it requested to return to port in Taiwan…
CAIRCAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 22 people on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as the U.S. stepped up efforts to overcome sticking points between Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire to end the war. One of the airstrikes killed at least 10 people in a multi-storey house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on Wednesday, while another killed five in the nearby Zeitoun suburb, medics said. In Deir Al-Balah city in central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering, an Israeli airstrike killed three other people. In Jabalia,…
(Reuters) – The suspected driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day used popular chatbot ChatGPT to plan the blast, officials told reporters on Tuesday. The suspect used ChatGPT to try and work out how much explosive was needed to trigger the blast, officials said. Authorities last week identified the person found dead inside the Cybertruck as Matthew Livelsberger, 37, an active-duty Army soldier from Colorado Springs, and said he acted alone. The FBI says the incident appeared to be a case of suicide. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police…
(Reuters) – A New York appellate court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to halt sentencing set for Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer of the Appellate Division, a mid-level state appeals court, made the decision after holding a hearing on Trump’s last-ditch effort to block the trial judge’s ruling on Monday to proceed with the sentencing, scheduled for 10 days before his inauguration. In his Monday ruling, Justice Juan Merchan rejected a request from Trump’s lawyers to delay the sentencing while they appealed two…
NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump asked a New York appellate court on Tuesday to throw out his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and to dismiss the case before his scheduled Friday sentencing. The request to the Appellate Division, a mid-level state appeals court, represented a last-ditch effort by Trump to block the trial judge’s ruling on Monday to proceed with the sentencing, scheduled for 10 days before his inauguration. In that ruling, Justice Juan Merchan rejected a request from Trump’s lawyers to delay the sentencing while they…
AMMAN, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Jordan and Syria have agreed to form a joint security committee to secure their border, combat arms and drug smuggling and work to prevent the resurgence of Islamic State militants, the Jordanian foreign minister said on Tuesday. Western anti-narcotics officials say the addictive, amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon has for years been mass-produced in Syria and that Jordan is a transit route to the oil-producing Gulf states. Jordan’s army has conducted several pre-emptive airstrikes in Syria since 2023 that Jordanian officials say targeted militias accused of links to the drug trade, as well as the…