American rapper Cardi B has sought child support and primary custody of two-year-old daughter Kulture after she filed for divorce from husband Offset. Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar and husband Kiari Kendrell Cephus, known professionally as Offset, tied the knot in a secret ceremony in 2017 and shared daughter Kulture. The WAP rapper filed for divorce in Superior …

American rapper Cardi B has filed for divorce from her husband Offset amid rumours that he was cheating on her. After being married for three years, the couple has parted ways amid a cheating scandal that Offset was embroiled in. The WAP rapper is officially calling it quits saying that her marriage  is “irretrievably broken” and “there are no prospects …

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defence Jim Mattis opposed the operation. “I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set,” Trump told the morning show Fox & Friends. “Mattis didn’t want to do it. Mattis was a highly overrated general, …

LESBOS: Germany said on Tuesday it has agreed to take in more than 1,500 refugees from Greece on top of the 150 unaccompanied minors whose camp burned down on the island of Lesbos as Berlin tried to rally a fresh EU response to a years-long migrant crisis that flared anew. EU countries have been forced to tackle the issue as …

RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinians protested on Tuesday against Israel’s normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Clutching Palestinian flags and wearing blue face masks for protection against the novel coronavirus, demonstrators rallied in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Hebron as well as in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds also took part in a demonstration in Ramallah, home …

India’s coronavirus infections surged past 5 million on Wednesday, piling pressure on hospitals grappling with unreliable supplies of oxygen that they need to treat tens of thousands of critical patients. In the big states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, that are also some of the worst affected by the virus, demand for oxygen has more than tripled, doctors and …

NEW DELHI: At least 17 members of the Indian parliament have tested positive for the coronavirus, government officials said on Tuesday, underlining the widening spread of infections set to cross five million cases soon. The lawmakers were screened ahead of the re-opening of parliament on Monday after six months. MPs cleared by the tests wore masks, occupied seats with glass …

Militants in Gaza launched rockets into Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries. The Israeli military said it launched about 10 air strikes in Hamas-run Gaza early on Wednesday and that 15 rockets had been fired from the territory at …

Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe’s lineup. Suga, 71, Abe’s longtime right-hand man, has pledged to pursue many of Abe’s programmes, including his “Abenomics” economic strategy, and to …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday celebrated its diplomatic victory — the overruling of Indian objection by Russia to displaying of its new political map at an online meeting of national security advisers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Indian NSA Ajit Doval walked out in protest during a speech at the dialogue by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National …