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US President Joe Biden has hit back at criticism over his age, telling supporters in a fiery speech that he will win re-election in November after a poor debate performance fuelled concern about his candidacy. "I know I'm not a young man, to state the obvious," he told a rally in the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday, one day after he struggled in the televised showdown with his […]
Three employees of subsidiaries of HYBE, the agency behind K-pop superstars BTS, have been charged with insider trading by South Korean prosecutors. They are being accused of selling shares in the agency before BTS members announced they were taking a break on 14 June, 2022. The announcement sent HYBE shares plunging 25% when markets opened, resulting in a loss in market value of nearly 2 trillion won ($1.4bn; £1.1bn). The […]
The Kenyan High Court has approved the use of military force to restore order, following days of anti-tax protests that at some point overwhelmed police. More than 20 people have reportedly been killed in the nationwide protests that are largely led by young people opposed to government plans to increase taxes. Armoured military vehicles patrolled streets in the capital, Nairobi, on Thursday as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters, […]
A halting Joe Biden struggled Thursday to allay concerns he is too old for a second term in the White House in a fiery debate with Donald Trump marked by personal insults. A bombastic Trump lashed out at his successor, calling him a failure on the economy and the world stage.Biden looked to hit back, but his delivery was faltering as he spoke rapidly in a raspy, trailing-off voice, stumbled […]
Homophobic and racist comments apparently made by Reform UK members have been recorded by an undercover Channel 4 journalist while they campaigned for Nigel Farage to become Clacton's MP Reform UK said those making "unacceptable comments" will no longer be part of Mr Farage's campaign. The secret recordings feature a conversation between individuals identified in the programme as Rob Bates, a senior Reform UK campaigner, and two other men linked […]
Seven people have been killed and five injured after an international express train collided with a bus on a level crossing in southern Slovakia, officials say. The Slovak ambulance service said all those who died had been travelling on the bus. They had been badly burnt in the subsequent fire and it was proving difficult to identify their remains, said Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok. Thursday's accident happened near the […]
At least one person has died after the roof of a terminal building in the Indian capital’s main airport partially collapsed due to heavy rains, with several domestic flights cancelled. The collapse occurred in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport early on Friday, with authorities evacuating Terminal 1 and cancelling flights until 2pm (08:30 GMT), civil aviation minister K Ram Mohan Naidu told reporters at the facility, confirming the death. […]
China's Communist Party on Thursday expelled former defence minister Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe for "serious violations of discipline", a euphemism for corruption, according to the report by Reuters. Li was suspected of receiving "huge sums of money" in bribes as well as bribing others, and an investigation found he "did not fulfill political responsibilities" and "sought personnel benefits for himself and others", the report said, citing the […]
US actor Bill Cobbs, who appeared in Night At The Museum and The Bodyguard, died at 90. His agent confirmed to the PA news agency the actor died on Tuesday evening in California surrounded by his family. Cobbs played Whitney Houston's manager Bill Devaney in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, which also starred Kevin Costner. The veteran actor also portrayed security guard Reggie in 2006's Night at the Museum, opposite […]
