US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Trump held the call from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, just days after his stunning election victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the report said. The president-elect’s […]
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accepted that he had “okayed” the pager attacks in Lebanon, which had killed nearly 40 Iran-backed Hezbollah members last month. “Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon,” his spokesperson Omer Dostri told AFP. On Wednesday, Lebanon had filed a complaint with the United Nations’ […]
Bitcoin soared to a new record high on Sunday, as traders bet that Donald Trump’s return to the White House will be good for the cryptocurrency. The digital currency passed $80,000 for the first time in its history shortly after 12:00 pm (1200 GMT). It has been rising since Republican candidate Trump won last Tuesday’s […]