Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court. The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu. According to an official, this is the state’s first conviction for same-sex relations […]

WASHINGTON  – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the trade negotiations or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether. “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. […]

By Alex Mardikian China’s restrictions on accepting trash for recycling has hit the U.S hard. Hawaii and California are two of the hardest-hit states. In 2016, the U.S earned around $6 billion in foreign exchange by shipping out trash to China for recycling. Of this amount, California shipped recyclable trash worth around $2.4 billion. This […]

An explosion at a cafe has killed Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, sources in the rebel administration there say. The report was carried by the rebel “Donetsk Republic” news agency DNR. Some Ukrainians suspected over the blast were arrested nearby, a rebel security source was quoted as saying. […]

The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military’s violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year.   Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein told the BBC the Nobel Peace prize winner should have considered returning to house arrest rather than excusing the military.   […]

I worked on toning myself down, letting others take charge and being less, well, energetic I’m chatty, playful and expressive. Do I have to tone down my personality in a professional working environment? I remember a school report when I was seven: “Sharmadean is a chatty member of the class and can sometimes be overenthusiastic.” […]

WASHINGTON  – U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81. McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona for more than three decades, had […]

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says he will no longer be taking the electric car maker private, just two weeks after saying he was considering a deal. The plan was cancelled after a board meeting on Thursday, he wrote in a post published on the company’s site. Since Mr Musk announced his plan to delist […]

President Donald Trump said “everybody would be very poor” and questioned how he could be impeached when he’s made strides improving economic conditions in an interview aired Thursday. “If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash, I think everybody would be very poor,” Trump said in response to a question from Fox […]

ISTANBUL  – President Tayyip Erdogan appealed to Turks’ religious and patriotic feelings ahead of a major Muslim holiday on Monday, promising they would not be brought “to their knees” by an economic crisis that has battered the lira currency. The lira TRYTOM=D3 has tumbled some 40 percent this year, hit by worries about Erdogan’s influence […]