WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States (US) President Joe Biden took aim on Wednesday at Donald Trump, joking that when his rival famously remarked about injecting bleach to tackle COVID it instead went in his much-discussed hair. “Remember when he was trying to deal with COVID… He suggested just inject a little bleach in your veins,” […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Shakira, the boundary-breaking Colombian performer, has been remarkably consistent since beginning her career in the early ’90s. Without fail, she toured, released albums, won awards, woven global, genre-defying sounds into her pioneering singles, performed at the Super Bowl halftime show and more. Then, things slowed. Or so it appeared. In reality, […]
LONDON (AP) – A teenage girl was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on Wednesday after stabbing a student and two teachers at a secondary school in Wales, police said. The three victims were expected to survive their wounds after being taken to a hospital following the attack at Amman Valley School in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, […]
BASEL (AFP) – The chairman of Swiss banking giant UBS voiced concern yesterday at proposed additional capital requirements aimed at ensuring banks have sufficient funds to withstand possible crises, insisting it was “the wrong remedy”. In the aftermath of last year’s shock-rescue of Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s government said this month it aims to tighten regulations, […]
EL PASO (AP) – A Texas, United States (US) grand jury indicted more than 140 migrants on misdemeanour rioting charges on Tuesday over an alleged mass attempt to breach the US-Mexico border, a day after a judge threw out the cases. No injuries were reported during the alleged breach on April 12 in El Paso, […]