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This handout photo taken and released by the Taiwan Presidential Office on December 1, 2024 shows Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te speaking by phone with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during his visit to Honolulu, Hawaii. | Photo Credit: AFP Taiwan President Lai Ching-te discussed “China’s military threats” toward the island in a call with […]
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Palm Beach: Justin Trudeau had an “excellent conversation” with Donald Trump at the president-elect’s Florida estate, Canada’s prime minister said Saturday, as the United States’ neighbors scramble to blunt the impact of Trump’s trade threats. Trudeau flew for a dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, after Trump earlier this week announced plans for import tariffs against […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exits the Delta Hotels by Marriott West Palm Beach ahead of a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on November 29, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Florida on Friday (November 29, 2024) for a dinner with […]
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Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday for what Canadian and American media said was a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago luxury estate. Flight trackers first spotted a jet broadcasting the prime minister’s callsign en route to the southern US state, in a visit that […]
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum. File | Photo Credit: Claudia Sheinbaum via X President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday (November 27, 2024) after talking with that country’s leader. However, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested that Mexico was already doing its part and that it had no interest in […]
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Jim Himes. File | Photo Credit: AP Five Democratic U.S. lawmakers from Connecticut on Thursday (November 28, 2024) said they were targeted with bomb threats at their homes, but no explosive devices had been found, according to social media and local media. U.S. Representatives Jim Himes, Jahana Hayes, John Larson and Joe Courtney, all from […]
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The FBI said in a statement that it is “aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees.” File | Photo Credit: AP Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and appointees have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks,” Trump’s transition said on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. “Last […]
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Devotees of Bengali social reformer Lalon Shah sit idle at the Muktidham Ashram and Lalon Academy premises following the cancellation of Lalon Mela festival due to Islamist threats, in Narayanganj on November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A Bangladeshi mystic sect promoting religious tolerance has cancelled their popular music festival after Islamist threats, the […]
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Dhaka: A Bangladeshi mystic sect promoting religious tolerance has cancelled their popular music festival after Islamist threats, the latest victim of turbulent religious relations since a student-led August revolution. The overthrow of long-time autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina has seen a spate of protests in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, including a surge in Islamist groups emboldened to […]
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A Nihang Sikh warrior holds a placard as he takes part in a protest near the Canadian embassy in New Delhi on November 10, 2024, against the recent attack on a Hindu temple in the city of Brampton, near Toronto in Canada. | Photo Credit: AFP Amid fears of an “extremely high level of violent […]
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