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A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting Taiwan’s undersea communication cables from suspected Chinese interference was introduced in the US senate on Wednesday, reported ANI citing the Taipei Times.The Taiwan Undersea Cable Resilience Initiative Act, sponsored by Republican senator John Curtis and Democratic senator Jacky Rosen, both members of the senate foreign relations committee, calls on…

Marco Rubio to meet Sergey Lavrov in Malaysia amid rising Russia-Ukraine war US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to meet Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday in Malaysia, on the sidelines of the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, as tensions between Washington and Moscow deepen over the conflict in Ukraine. Marco Rubio has…

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined Florida’s request to allow the state to enforce parts of its new immigration law that had been blocked by a lower court, NBC news reported.The court’s brief order did not explain why it refused the emergency request from Florida’s attorney general.The case centres on a law signed this…

Darcy Deefholts (Image credit: Facebook) SYDNEY: A teenage Australian surfer feared lost at sea was rescued Thursday after spending the night on an uninhabited island miles offshore, officials and local media said.The man, named in local media as 19-year-old Darcy Deefholts, reportedly went for a surf off a beach in Wooli, a coastal town 480…

Representative Image (AI-generated) At least 15 workers may be trapped underground after an industrial tunnel reportedly collapsed in Wilmington, North Carolina around 8 pm (local time) on Wednesday, authorities said.More than 100 personnel from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) have been assigned to the emergency at 1701 N Figueroa St, which serves as the…

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday (local time) that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will now serve as the interim administrator of Nasa.In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Duffy’s work in transportation, saying he is improving air traffic control systems and rebuilding roads and bridges.“Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our…

US defence secy Pete Hegseth with Israeli PM Netanyahu at the Pentagon on Wednesday (AFP photo) Deir Al-Balah, Jul 9 (AP) Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 10 members of a family sheltering in a tent, hospital officials said Wednesday. The strikes came as US President Donald Trump pushed…

Former White House doctor, Kevin O’Connor has refused to answer questions on the declining cognitive health of former US president Joe Biden on Wednesday, exercising his constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment for self-incrimination. Dr O’Connor swiftly left the House office building after what was intended to be a transcribed interview with the House Oversight…

Ilhan Omar’s daughter starts selling used clothes as she has no money, no job. Rep Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hisri, who was arrested for a pro-Palestine campus protest and then got suspended from her college, took to social media to announce that she has no money and so she has to sell her used clothes…