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The US president has accused his former White House rival of trying to hinder his 2016 campaign with unfounded claims tying him to Moscow US President Donald Trump is attempting to revive a failed civil lawsuit that claimed then-rival Hillary Clinton tried to rig the 2016 election by linking his campaign to Russia. The 108-page suit, filed in 2022, alleged …

It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than that. Once the launch is detected and confirmed as an attack, the president is briefed. At that point, the commander-in-chief might have about two or three minutes at …

Xiaomi, one of Tesla’s biggest challengers in mainland China over the past year, pledged to focus on the safety and reliability of its cars after its factory reached another milestone. Founder and CEO Lei Jun said on Thursday that Xiaomi had raised its full-year delivery target from 350,000 vehicles to 400,000 after ramping up production, but stressed that the quality …

Ukraine has been accused of plotting to poison a high-ranking Russian officer with “beer laced with a British-supplied chemical warfare agent”. Vladimir Putin‘s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed to have thwarted an assassination attempt which would have led to an “agonising death within 20 minutes”. The bizarre case involved a senior member of Russia‘s armed forces falling for a glamorous …

China has accused the United States of trying to undermine its relations with Greece after the US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle urged Athens to sell the Chinese-operated port of Piraeus. Guilfoyle called the presence of China’s state-owned shipping giant Cosco at the port in the south of Greece “unfortunate”, in an interview last week with Greek broadcaster Antenna TV. “But I …

The roadmap reportedly requires Kiev to relinquish the parts of new Russian regions in Donbass still under its control EU officials have received almost no information on the peace plan presented to Ukraine by the administration of US President Donald Trump, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Several outlets, including Axios, the Financial Times, and The Telegraph, claimed that …

In a significant escalation of the ongoing conflict, Ukraine has launched US-provided ATACMS missiles into Russian territory this week – marking the first confirmed strikes of this nature. The move comes after Washington quietly granted Kyiv permission to use the long-range weapons for attacks across the border, as reported by both Ukrainian and Russian officials to the New York Times. …

South African police and army units held a parade on Wednesday involving helicopters, K-9 dog units and officers on motorcycles in a show of force ahead of expected protests around this weekend’s Group of 20 world leaders summit in Johannesburg. South Africa has deployed 3,500 extra police officers and put the army on standby under its National Joint Operational and …

NASA scientists have been left scratching their heads after the Perseverance Rover discovered a peculiar rock on Mars that seemingly doesn’t belong there – its composition hinting at a possible interstellar origin. “This rock was identified as a target of interest,” NASA revealed in a recent blog post, detailing the potentially cosmic boulder. The Perseverance Rover, which has been scouring …

The US president previously resisted the push to make documents public, arguing the issue was being weaponized by the Democrats US President Donald Trump has signed a bill requiring the Justice Department to release investigative files relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move came despite Trump initially opposing the measure, saying Democrats were using the Epstein case to damage …