WASHINGTON : (AFP)On Tuesday, US Vice President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “dictator” who faces economic and diplomatic isolation for invading Ukraine, and warned that the world is in a “battle” between democracy and despotism. Biden made it clear that there would be no US boots onRead More →

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Vice President Joe Biden urged on the Taliban on Sunday to “immediately release” the man thought to be the insurgents’ final American captive, saying that acknowledging the militants’ authority in Afghanistan would be impossible until he was free. The statement came on the eve ofRead More →

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft exceeded market forecasts with a good quarterly performance in cloud computing and software on Tuesday, continuing to benefit from the pandemic’s online moving of work, play, shopping, and learning. The US internet behemoth, which revealed last week a bombshell agreement to acquire gaming behemoth ActivisionRead More →

On the margins of a White House photo session, US President Joe Biden was overheard on a live microphone Monday calling a Fox News journalist a “dumb son of a bitch.” As journalists exited the room following the presentation, a Fox News reporter, a favourite of conservatives, inquired whether inflationRead More →

BRUXELLES (AFP) – On Wednesday, NATO and Russia confronted their stark divide over European security, with the allies challenging President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and join talks to reduce the threat of open conflict. Meeting with senior Kremlin envoys at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Western ambassadors saidRead More →

AFP, PORT-AU-PRINCE According to a local authority, at least 50 people were murdered when a gas truck exploded in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien on Tuesday morning, with the death toll expected to grow. Deputy Mayor Patrick Almonor said he saw more than 50 badly charred bodies at the bombRead More →