Yearly Archives: 2025
The Pentagon on Monday labeled Tencent, the Chinese social media and gaming giant, as a Chinese military business operating in the United States, the latest action in an escalating series of retaliatory moves between the world’s two superpowers. Tencent’s shares in the United States plunged by nearly 10 percent after the decision by the Defense […]
A group of Afghan nationals landed in the Philippines on Monday for the processing of special immigrant visas for their resettlement in the U.S. Their arrival comes as part of an agreement between the Filipino and U.S. governments. The Philippines agreed in July to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for a limited […]
Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as the prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party on Monday. What next for Canada? And will the development bring a decisive shift in India-Canada relations? Mint explains: What next after Trudeau’s resignation? With Canada’s Parliament prorogued until March, the opposition’s effort to bring a no-confidence motion […]
Statistical data shared by Nikhil Kamath reveals that Mumbai dominated with 64.28% of equity trade deliveries in November 2024. Zerodha‘s co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath believes that the ‘real money is with Gujjus’. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Kamath highlighted that a big majority of equity delivery trade comes from Ahmedabad and […]
Getty Images Upcoming changes to stamp duty will “motivate” first-time buyers to buy a property, according to the Halifax. The average price of a UK home ended 2024 close to the £300,000 mark, the UK’s biggest mortgage broker said. Its calculations suggested UK house prices increased by 3.3% when comparing the end of the year […]
Workers are processing chips at a workshop of an optoelectronic technology company in Huai’an, China, on May 11, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images A rally in tech stocks propelled a 1.97% rise in Japan’s Nikkei 225, which led gains among its regional peers and closed at 40,083.3. The broad-based Topix gained 1.1% and […]
PTI leader and former Punjab CM Parvez Elahi speaks in a video message in this undated image. — X@ChParvezElahi/File LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore indicted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi in a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). With the court summoning witnesses on the next hearing, Parvez, the former Punjab […]
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Transitional Period Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory on Monday, four years after the Jan. 6 attack on […]
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Two federal death row inmates refuse Biden's commutation in continued fight to prove their innocence
Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who are both in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, are refusing to sign the paperwork to accept the president’s clemency action due to […]