Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who helped the Kremlin target Ukrainian troops and was then spirited out of eastern Ukraine by Russian special forces, has received a Russian passport in Moscow. Russian state television broadcast a report on Tuesday showing Martindale, with a trim beard and dressed in a suit and tie, smiling as he…
Secret Swiss bank accounts were set up. Special envoys, with assumed identities, travelled to hostile nations. Arms were air-dropped for rebel guerrillas. And a plane with American nationals was hijacked. The Iran-Contra case, one of the biggest political scandals in American history, involved all the above and missile supply to Iran by the US. That…
NEW DELHI: A man working as housekeeping staff at a government hospital in Dwarka has been arrested for secretly filming inside a women’s washroom, police said on Friday.According to a PTI report, the matter came to light when a woman using the washroom heard a sudden ringing sound from a hidden mobile phone. Upon investigation,…
WASHINGTON: The House Ethics Committee voted in secret to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, raising the possibility that the allegations against the Florida Republican who was President-elect Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney general could be made public in the coming days. The decision by the bipartisan committee was made earlier…
NEW DELHI: On the eve of Bijoy Dibos, deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday called the interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus an “undemocratic group” that is “secretly supporting anti-liberation extremist-communal forces.”In a statement to commemorate the defeat of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, Hasina dubbed Muhammad Yunus as a “fascist”…
Amid a confrontation with Israel, Iran has a crisis at home. Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei is said to be seriously unwell, and his second son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been chosen to lead the Shia Islamic nation. Reports say that Mojtaba could take over even before his father’s death. This could have ramifications for Iran,…