US lawmakers passed a bill to suspend the debt ceiling through 2024, slightly cutting government spending next year, as part of a pact struck between Washington's warring parties. The drama capped a tense few days on Capitol Hill; the Treasury had expected to run out of funds as soon as Monday. A default would nearly certainly trigger another recession, kill millions of jobs, and send costs soaring.from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/tyFK7TL
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, has begun her sentence of 11 years in federal prison in Texas for her role in a blood-testing hoax that highlighted Silicon Valley’s greed and hubris. Holmes, who is now 39, denied committing any crime and instead admitted that mistakes were made at Theranos.
South Korea's military said it was still analysing whether the launch was successful, while media in South Korea and Japan said governments there were examining the possibility that it failed. North Korean state media did not immediately report on the launch.
North Korea will launch its first military reconnaissance satellite in June for monitoring US military activities, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. In a statement carried by the KCNA news agency, Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party, denounced joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea as openly showing their "reckless ambition for aggression."
China successfully launched three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, including the first Chinese civilian in space. Shenzhou-16 is the first mission to Tiangong since it entered its “application and development” stage. The crew’s mission includes the study of quantum phenomena, high-precision space time-frequency systems, the verification of general relativity, and the origin of life.
The Beluga whale which made headlines in 2019 for wearing a harness and possibly being a spy trained by the Russian navy has been spotted off the coast of Sweden, according to monitoring organization OneWhale. The whale, nicknamed "Hvaldimir", has been travelling for over three years, and is believed to be motivated by hormones or seeking companionship with other Belugas.
Pickett had died of heart failure on March 19, 1965 in Darjeeling while on a round-the-world trip and had been buried in the cemetery, which houses the graves of many Englishmen, including the discoverer of Darjeeling, Lt Gen George W Aylmer Lloyd, and Hungarian linguist Sandor Csoma de Koros.
The election was pitched by the opposition as the last stand for Turkish democracy. Many neutral observers have critiqued Erdogan as an autocrat who had massively deviated from modern Turkiye's parliamentary and secular founding principles. Over the last two decades, Erdogan's imprint on almost all vital Turkish institutions has deepened. His critics have likened him to a modern-day Ottoman sultan.
The Ukrainian capital also came under attack for the 16th time this month in the morning after a second successive night of bombardments. Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11.30am, according to Ukraine's chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Pyongyang has informed Japan's coastguard that a rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11 and will fall in waters near the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and east of Luzon Island in the Philippines, a coastguard spokesman told AFP. However, the prime minister's office in a tweet said Fumio Kishida issued instructions "on North Korea's notification about the launch of a ballistic missile that it describes as a satellite".
Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkish news agencies showed Erdogan ahead with 98% of ballot boxes counted in a presidential runoff that will decide whether the country's longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade.
Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early as Monday, ahead of fresh elections on June 25. No party achieved an overall majority in the election on May 21, which was held under simple proportional representation.
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement on a two-year debt limit increase and spending limits to avoid a possible default. The legislation would keep non-defence spending flat in the 2024 fiscal year and increase it by 1% the following year, and fully fund medical care for veterans.
China Eastern Airlines flight MU9191 rose into the skies above Shanghai Hongqiao Airport just after 10:30 am (0230 GMT), footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed. The plane is carrying over 130 passengers on China Eastern Airlines flight MU9191 to Beijing's Capital International Airport, CCTV said.
According to the police, 10 people, including three women were killed in the calamity in the Shunter Top area of Astore district in the mountainous region. “Rescue work was launched with the help of locals and later the Pakistan Army soldiers also joined the operation,” the police said.
Shelling in Russian regions bordering Ukraine killed two people on Saturday, regional authorities said. The regional governor of Belgorod said there were fresh attacks, a day after dozens of strikes.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed for immediate talks with state officials, as pressure increased on him amidst a crackdown on his top aides and supporters that has seen thousands arrested as well as many leaving his party. Khan has been embroiled in a tussle with the military since he was removed from power last year in a parliamentary vote that he says was orchestrated by the country's top generals. The military denies this.
A Gujarat-born Indian-American judge torched a Trump-supporting right wing extremist for "seditious conspiracy" against the United States on Thursday before handing him an 18-year prison sentence.US District Judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta, who was born in Patan in Gujarat and grew up in Maryland, outside Washington DC, lit into Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, telling him that he and his ilk "pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday downplayed worries that the ChatGPT maker could exit the European Union if it can't comply with the bloc's strict new artificial intelligence rules, coming after a top official rebuked him for comments raising such a possibility.Altman is travelling through Europe as part of a world tour to meet with officials and promote his AI company, which has unleashed a frenzy around the globe.
