President Joe Biden on Friday announced he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offences as one of his last major moves just days before leaving office. Biden said the individuals receiving commutations are “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice” in a Friday statement. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received…

The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok nationwide unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday. TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the app’s more than 170 million users it says it has in the US. But that argument was rejected by the nation’s highest court, meaning TikTok must now find an approved buyer for…

It is no longer news that the U.S. President-elect, Donald Trump, will be inaugurated on Monday, January 20, as the 47th president of the country. Trump will assume office in the White House following the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in the election. As the inauguration approaches with every passing second, minute, hour, and day, there…

…20 children and 25 women among casualties The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have killed at least 40 Palestinians despite the truce announced recently. After news of a ceasefire agreement sparked mass rejoicing in Gaza, residents woke up Thursday to columns of smoke, rubble and more deaths following new Israeli air strikes. The killings came as the Israeli cabinet preparation to vote on the deal. The latest strikes came after Qatar…

The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country’s east. Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a statement Wednesday that “it is officially declared that the 13 comrades are deceased.” The explosion, which the ministry said was likely the cause of a short circuit and power failure, happened on Tuesday last week in…

Sir Keir Starmer has made his first trip to Kyiv as prime minister, vowing to put Ukraine in the “strongest possible position” in 2025. Arriving on Thursday morning, he accompanied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lay flowers at a wall of remembrance for those killed in the war with Russia – telling reporters the UK will “never let up” on giving the necessary support to Ukraine. The trip is taking…

….Outlines threats, challenges President Joe Biden, in his farewell address to the nation Wednesday, spent little time dwelling on the accomplishments of his single term in office, instead telling Americans he wanted to use his final address “to warn the country of some things that give me great concern.” Calling to mind President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, he warned of the dangers of the potential rise of a tech industrial…

World’s richest person, Elon Musk will be among several billionaires attending Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration. Tesla CEO, Musk was instrumental in Trump’s reelection with his contribution of over a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump’s campaign coffers, according to Forbes. Musk is set to head Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur. Reports say that Musk is slated to be seated…

A tribunal in the UK has dismissed £494 million lawsuit alleging anti-competitive agreement between Apple and Amazon to restrict resellers. Apple and Amazon have successfully defended against a major lawsuit in the UK accusing the tech giants of colluding to limit resellers of new Apple products on Amazon’s website. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled on Tuesday that the case could not proceed. The lawsuit, filed by consumer law academic, Christine…

The Palestinian Authority must be the sole governing power in Gaza after the war, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said on Wednesday, as expectations grew that a deal to halt fighting and start returning Israeli hostages was near. Who will run Gaza after the war remains one of the great unanswered questions in the negotiations, which have focused on an immediate ceasefire and exchanging hostages still held in the enclave…

Russia has been planning acts of ‘air terror’ against airlines worldwide, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sensationally claimed on Wednesday as he met with Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw. Tusk accused Moscow of staging sabotage and diversion on Polish soil and beyond. ”All I can say, and I will not go into details, but I can confirm the validity of these fears, is that Russia has been planning acts…

Meta on Wednesday responded to Ashwini Vaishnaw’s post on X, calling Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on the Indian election “disappointing.” The Instagram parent company apologised for its CEO’s “inadvertent error” and reiterated that India is an “important country.” Union Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, while taking offence to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent remarks about Indian elections, had written on X, “As the world’s largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million…