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FBI director Kash Patel has been accused of prioritising social activities, including jet skiing and football matches, over official meetings with international intelligence partners, according to a report in The New York Times.A senior FBI executive told the NYT that the Indian-origin director showed a lack of interest in office‑based meetings while attending a secret…

A growing number of Indian tech professionals are returning home as uncertainty over the US H-1B visa program increases. LinkedIn data shows a 40 per cent increase in tech workers changing their location to India in the third quarter of 2025, according to Bloomberg. This signals a huge potential for reverse migration from US. U.S….

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said that US President Donald Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize if he could deliver on Ukraine.“I hope that one day we can award a Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump,” Meloni said after meeting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.“I trust that if he makes a difference… in achieving a just and…

A right-wing author has claimed that China is exploiting American birthright citizenship laws by sending soon-to-be mothers to United States to give birth, securing US citizenship for children, and those children return to China to be raised and then later return back to the US as adults with full legal rights of a US citizen….

If an H-1B worker is working remotely, can they work from their home country? That question has sparked a debate after Texas journalist Sara Gonzales posted a viral YouTube video claiming she had exposed an H-1B visa scam in Texas.Gonzales said she visited addresses linked to a company employing H-1B workers and found no offices…

Can extreme winter really cause trees to ‘explode’? /Image: X Across parts of the world, winter has settled in hard. Sub-zero temperatures, sudden freezes, and heavy snow are affecting many regions, and with them an unexpected side effect: sharp cracking sounds echoing through parks, streets, and back gardens. Online, dramatic videos capturing the noise, some…

Russia launched more than 370 drones and 21 missiles at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said on Saturday, accusing Moscow of deliberately undermining peace talks as negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the United States met in Abu Dhabi for a second day of discussions to end the nearly four-year-long war.“Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? Diplomacy?…

Emirates cancelled multiple Dubai US flights January 24 and 26 due to Winter Storm Fern/Image: X Emirates Airlines has announced the cancellation of several flights to the United States between January 24 and January 26 amid ongoing disruptions caused by Winter Storm Fern.In a statement issued on its official website, Emirates said the decision was…

Archaeologists working near Luxor have identified the remains of a large royal city dating back around 3,400 years, offering a detailed look at daily life during one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful periods. The settlement was built under Pharaoh Amenhotep III and later inherited by his son Akhenaten, whose radical religious reforms reshaped Egyptian history….

Archaeologists have spent decades debating how and when people first entered the Americas. The outlines are familiar, but the details keep shifting. A growing body of evidence now suggests that the earliest populations arrived earlier than once believed and brought with them a shared way of making stone tools. This emerging picture is based not…