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Twitter slaps label on another Trump tweet

7:44 pm June 24, 2020

New York: Twitter has for the fifth time placed a label over one of Donald Trump‘s tweets for violating its policies after he threatened “serious force” against protesters, escalating the microblogging platform’s spat with the US President. The tweet says: “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, DC, as long as I’m your President. If […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Thousands headed to indoor Trump rally, raising virus fears

11:50 pm June 20, 2020

Washington DC: Tens of thousands of people from many states are converging on Tulsa for an indoor rally and other campaign events Saturday for President Donald Trump, raising concerns that the gatherings could help fuel nascent spikes of coronavirus cases in many places. State and city health department officials were already bracing for a possible […]

Treasury chief refusing to disclose recipients of virus aid

3:57 pm June 13, 2020

Washington: Building ramparts of secrecy around a 600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has moved from delay to denial in refusing outright to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans. Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing this week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are proprietary information. […]

Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

Two Chinese varsities barred from using US-developed software platform over links with PLA

11:02 pm June 12, 2020

Beijing: Two Chinese universities have been banned from using a US-developed computer software platform after US authorities put the institutions on an “entity list” over their close ties to People’s Liberation Army (PLA), amid tension between the two countries over the use of high technology. US Department of Commerce has added the Harbin Institute of […]

Turkey sentences US Consulate employee to more than 8 years

11:52 pm June 11, 2020

Ankara: A Turkish court on Thursday convicted a local US Consulate employee in Istanbul of membership in an armed terror organization and sentenced him to eight years and nine months in prison, the state-run news agency reported. Metin Topuz, a translator and assistant for the US Drug Enforcement Agency, has been jailed since 2017, accused of links to US-based Turkish cleric […]