US President Donald Trump said he would “work on the Taiwan problem” and speak with its president after his recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump also said it was “good” that Xi had met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing.Xi and Putin met in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, while Trump visited Beijing…
US secretary of state Marco Rubio marked Cuban Independence Day with a direct message to the people of Cuba.In a Spanish-language video address released on Wednesday, Rubio blamed the island’s communist leadership for the “unimaginable hardships” faced by ordinary Cubans and spoke of offering the country a “new path.”“And I want to tell you what…
PM Modi with Italy PM Meloni Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday invoked a Hindi phrase while describing the growing ties between India and Italy during a joint press statement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rome. “There is an Indian word which states that very well, which is ‘parishram’. ‘Parishram’, which means hard…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: In the Grand Old Party (GOP), as the Republican Party is called, Senators once strode around Capitol Hill like feudal barons, House committee chairmen wielded power like medieval dukes, and Presidents often had to negotiate with their own party stalwarts. In Donald Trump’s MAGA-fied Republican Party, the operating principle is…
Mackenzie Scott has gifted $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations but despite the massive giving, she did not make it to the latest list of top donors published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. According to a Fortune report, the exclusion surprised many because Scott’s donations last year alone were higher than the lifetime charitable giving…
Alia Bhatt’s recent Cannes red carpet appearance became a talking point across social media, with a viral video sparking trolling and several headlines suggesting that the actress was ignored by photographers. However, actor Pushkar Jog, who was present at the festival, has now stepped in to clarify what really happened. Attending Cannes for the first…
Screenshot from a viral video of the location of the PAF trainee aircraft crash A training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Wednesday during a routine operational training mission, reports said. The aircraft crashed in Mianwali district following a reported technical malfunction in the engine. Both pilots ejected…
NEW DELHI: Live-in relationships are no longer outside the scope of Indian judiciary. While there is no single legislation that specifically governs live-in couples, courts across the country have repeatedly recognised such relationships and extended several legal protections to partners, especially women and children born from such relationships. Are live-in relationships legal in India? Yes….
Sundar Pichai, at Google I/O 2026, reiterated the company’s aggressive plan to spend close to $200 billion in AI infrastructure, signaling the company’s push in the semiconductor segment. This massive budget represents a six-fold increase from the $31 billion the company spent in 2022. While a significant portion of this capital will fund AI data…
WHO on Wednesday said that the risk of Ebola spreading in Congo and neighbouring Uganda remains high at the national and regional levels, though the global risk is currently considered low.WHO also said that the Ebola outbreak does not currently meet the threshold to be declared a pandemic even as the agency warned that the…
