There is a new wave of calls for Congress to return to Washington to respond to the growing costs of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Multiple members of Congress from hurricane-ravaged states have issued new calls for the U.S. House and Senate to respond to the depletion of funds from the U.S. Small Business Administration disaster…
Appearing in a crisp suit and dark tie, Genaro García Luna – the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be convicted in the United States – remained impassive as his sentence was handed down in a New York courtroom. He was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison, as well as a $2m (£1.5m) fine….
MUMBAI: Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, which holds an approximately 66% stake in Tata Sons, is set to be appointed to the board of the latter.Noel will be the sole member of the Tata Group‘s founding family to hold positions on boards of both Tata Sons and Tata Trusts. He will be one three…
Getty Images The main messaging apps are all free to use, so what is in it for them? In the past 24 hours I’ve written more than 100 WhatsApp messages. None of them were very exciting. I made plans with my family, discussed work projects with colleagues, and exchanged news and gossip with some friends….
Maria Mulgrew Maria Mulgrew was a keen runner and was training for a marathon when she became ill Maria Mulgrew was aware she had reached menopausal age but still something was not quite right. “I felt anxious in crowds, exhausted and my blood pressure was slightly raised but there was something else,” she told BBC…
More than 60,000 migrants will be granted asylum and allowed to stay in Britain after Sir Keir Starmer scrapped the Rwanda scheme, experts have revealed. Based on grant rates in the year to June, the Refugee Council predicted that as many as 62,801 people could be recognised as refugees. This is primarily down to the…
‘No questions over Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership’ Michelle O’Neill has said there are “no questions” over her party president’s leadership of Sinn Féin. On Tuesday, Mary Lou McDonald defended Sinn Féin’s decision not to reveal that former Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile had been suspended for sending inappropriate texts to a teenage boy when he stepped…
Liam Payne, the former member of One Direction, has died aged 31 in Argentina after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, police say. In a statement, police said they were dispatched to the hotel after an emergency call in which they were “informed of an aggressive man who may have…
A federal grand jury unsealed an indictment against two Sudanese brothers Wednesday, charging them with running “Anonymous Sudan,” one of the most prolific cyberattack-for-hire gangs of all time and allegedly behind tens of thousands of attacks. Federal prosecutors accused Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, of carrying out 35,000 denial-of-service…
LONDON: The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued on Wednesday a statement siding with Canada in the diplomatic firestorm that has erupted between Ottawa and New Delhi, saying India’s “cooperation with Canada’s legal process was the right next step”.The FCDO issued a strongly worded statement “on the ongoing Canadian investigation linked to the…
