The New Zealand stock exchange was knocked offline two days in a row due to a cyber-attack. NZX said it had first been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad, on Tuesday. The exchange said the attack had “impacted NZX network connectivity” and it had decided to halt trading in cash […]
By Yasine Mohabuth BBC News, Mauritius At least 17 dead dolphins have been found on the seashore in Mauritius, more than a month after the huge oil spill caused by a Japanese-owned ship. The deaths have been caused either by the spill or the authorities’ decision to sink the ship’s stem, environmental campaigners say. The […]
Four years after a floor fight to strip Trump of the nomination, the GOP doesn’t even attempt to draft a platform, announcing that whatever Trump does is fine. By S.V. Date, HuffPost US Four years after having to quell a floor revolt designed to topple his nomination, Donald Trump on Monday won renomination from a Republican Party displaying […]
“Are they good or bad?” the US president wanted to know. By Josie Harvey Sarah Cooper just got the opportunity to impersonate Donald Trump weighing in on ― Sarah Cooper. The comedian, known best for her viral lip-sync videos of Trump, hit a new milestone in her skyrocket to fame when Fox News host Steve Hilton asked the US president in […]
WORLD Against the backdrop of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 175,000 Americans, Republicans plan a partly virtual, partly in-person extravaganza. Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WORLD Washington/Charlotte, N.C.: Republicans will make their case this week that the United States’ economic and political future depends on the re-election of Donald Trump at a party convention designed […]
It just so happens that both countries can no longer afford to prolong disagreements, whether over the border or otherwise. Kamal Dev Bhattarai DIPLOMACY EXTERNAL AFFAIRS SOUTH ASI Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, who had until recently faced pressure from party leaders to quit as prime minister and party chairman, seems to have managed […]
Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Sunday said in a court filing that Apple Inc’s threat to cut off the creator of “Fortnite” from Apple’s developer tools would hurt Microsoft’s gaming business, as well as other game developers. The filing came in a dispute between Apple and Epic Games. Apple removed Epic’s titles from […]
Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing Sunday, raised the possibility of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, a major purchaser of U.S. goods. In a video excerpt, Trump initially told interviewer Steve Hilton “we don’t have to” do business with China, and then later said about […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast, Iran said on Sunday. The announcement by the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization marks […]
PARIS (Reuters) – The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than over among 65-year-olds, France’s health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. “We’re in a risky situation,” Olivier Veran said in an interview with France’s Journal […]
