LOS ANGELES: Disney posted its second best year at the box office ever, raking in $7.325 billion worldwide for everything from “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War” to hit animated sequel “Incredibles 2” and the latest “Star Wars”...
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WASHINGTON : Incoming Senator Mitt Romney said Wednesday he was unsure who to endorse for the White House in 2020, saying he would consider “the alternatives” to Donald Trump, whose presidency he said is falling short.
The comments on CNN came hours after the 2012 Republican...
WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump met top Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday, but they failed to hammer out an agreement that would end a partial government shutdown over his demand for billions of dollars to build a border wall with Mexico.
One day before Democrats take over the House of...
JAKARTA : A total of 41 villagers were missing after fatal landslides struck Suka Bumi district in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, a disaster agency official said here on Tuesday. Personnel from the search and rescue office and disaster agency along with villagers tried to find...
BANGKOK : A Thai man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year’s Eve party before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Sucheep Sornsung joined his...
BEIJING : The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries’ diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported. Tensions between Beijing and Washington soared in 2018 over trade...
WASHINGTON : Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren – an outspoken critic of Wall Street and nemesis of Donald Trump — entered the 2020 race for the White House on Monday. The 69-year-old progressive announced she was launching an exploratory committee for president, becoming the first...
RIO DE JANEIRO : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Arab countries viewed Israel as an “indispensable ally” fighting Iran and the Islamic State group. That evaluation, he told Brazil’s Globo TV during a visit to Rio, has caused “a revolution in relations...
WASHINGTON : A week and a half into a partial government shutdown, House Democrats released their plan to re-open the government without approving money for President Donald Trump’s border wall. At the same time, the president struggled to find leverage to break the stalemate before the...
BEIRUT : Syria’s nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual death toll in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor said on Monday.
A total of 19,666 people were killed this year as a result of the conflict, which erupted in 2011, the...
