The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday lowered its 2021 growth forecast for China to 7.9 per cent, following a year of “significant human and economic costs” inflicted by the Covid-19 crisis. The figure is slightly below the 8.2 per cent the IMF earlier predicted, although China has been pegged as the only major economy […]

United States (US) outgoing president, Donald Trump, had made Twitter his favoured channel for sharing unflattering nicknames, insults, video montages and even policy decisions. But he no longer has that soapbox, as the social platform permanently suspended his account, @realDonaldTrump, on Friday. Here’s a look back at some of his most memorable tweets: – ‘Fake […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the United States is his nuclear-armed nation’s “biggest enemy”, state media reported Saturday, as he threw down the diplomatic gauntlet to the incoming administration of Joe Biden. The declaration comes less than two weeks ahead of the new US president’s inauguration and after a tumultuous relationship between Kim […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused Twitter of conspiring with his political enemies “to silence me,” after the social media platform permanently suspended his account. “Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their […]

Russia and China have opposed a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as Washington may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018.