World,Front Page
World food prices dropped for the seventh month in a row February as falling cereal prices outweighed more costly sugar and meat, the Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday.The United Nations agency said its FAO Food Price Index dropped 0.7 percent in February and is down 10.5 percent from a...
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 200 pupils during a raid on a school in northwest Nigeria, a teacher and local residents said, in one of the country's largest mass abductions.Kidnappings for ransom are common in Africa's most populous country, where heavily armed criminal gangs have targeted...
Sports,Tennis
World number one Novak Djokovic said his excitement level is high as he returns to the ATP Indian Wells Masters for the first time in five years.The Serb will resume his quest for a record-setting sixth trophy at the ATP-WTA California desert classic, which he last won in 2016 and last played in 201...
Sports,Football
Luis Suarez grabbed a stoppage-time equaliser after Lionel Messi had reduced the deficit as Inter Miami fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup round-of-16 tie on Thursday.Canadian winger Jacob Shaffelburg had put Nashville 2-0 up with a pair of s...
World
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a large-scale live-fire artillery drill involving a unit Pyongyang says is capable of striking the South Korean capital, the North's state media said Friday.So far this year, Pyongyang has declared South Korea its "principal enemy", jettisoned age...
Former UK prime minister Theresa May on Friday announced that she will stand down as a member of parliament at the next general election, due to take place later this year.May, 67, is the most senior member of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative party to announce they will not seek re-elec...
Ireland begins voting in a double referendum Friday on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the make-up of a family and women's role in the home.All the major political parties support a "Yes-Yes" vote, and until recently polls predicted a smooth passage for both on Inte...
Business & Commerce
German airline giant Lufthansa more than doubled its profits in 2023, extending a rebound from the coronavirus pandemic even as it faces fresh risks from a wave of industrial action.The group reported Thursday a net profit of 1.67 billion euros ($1.82 billion), up substantially from a figure of 791 ...
Sticky inflation is expected to prompt eurozone rate-setters to hold borrowing costs steady again Thursday, as they await clearer signs of a sustained easing of consumer prices before beginning to cut.Costs of everyday goods surged following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amid pandemic-related...
The world's most popular AI tools are powered by programs from OpenAI and Meta that show prejudice against women, according to a study launched on Thursday by the UN's cultural organisation UNESCO.The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts ...
World,Back Page
Like her ancestors before her, Emirati astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi has spent much of her life gazing up at the stars and dreaming of flying to the Moon.This week, she became the first Arab woman to graduate from NASA's training program, ready to blast off into the cosmos.AlMatrooshi, 30, remember...
Envoys pushed on with efforts for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal in Cairo talks Wednesday, hoping to halt nearly five months of fighting with days to go before Ramadan.US President Joe Biden had urged Hamas to accept a ceasefire plan with Israel before the Muslim fasting month begins, which c...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to hold a rally in main city of Indian-administrated Kashmir on Thursday, on his first visit since the disputed region's semi-autonomy was cancelled in 2019.Modi's government stripped the Muslim-majority territory of its special constitutional status, splittin...
Real Madrid scraped through into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 1-1 second-leg draw against RB Leipzig on Wednesday, progressing 2-1 on aggregate.The record 14-time champions were far below their best but did just enough over the two legs of the last-16 clash to edge out their Bundesliga...
Sports,Cricket
Kuldeep Yadav took five wickets to bundle out England for 218, with India's batsmen starting strongly on a dominant opening day for the hosts in the fifth Test on Thursday.Yadav returned figures of 5-72 and, along with fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who took four wickets in his landmark 100t...
Manchester City cruised into a seventh consecutive Champions League quarter-final as a much-changed side still put FC Copenhagen to the sword 3-1 on Wednesday to progress 6-2 on aggregate.Goals from Manuel Akanji and Julian Alvarez killed the tie as a contest inside 10 minutes before Erling Haaland ...
Israel will allow as many Muslim worshippers to access Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the first week of Ramadan as in previous years, the prime minister's office said Tuesday."In the first week of Ramadan, worshippers will be allowed to enter the Temple Mount, in similar numbers to thos...
Sudan’s nearly 11-month war between rival generals “risks triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis”, the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned Wednesday.The war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands...
Peru's powerful Prime Minister Alberto Otarola resigned Tuesday amid allegations of influence-peddling to help a young woman he is said to have addressed lovingly in recordings released by news media.Otarola told reporters in Lima that "in conversation with the President of the Republic I h...
Southeast Asian and Australian leaders on Wednesday warned against actions that "endanger peace" in the South China Sea, following fresh confrontations between Beijing and the Philippines in contested waters.Simmering tensions in the trade corridor threatened to boil over earlier this week...
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