World
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed that "justice is coming", five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut's port for which nobody has been held to account.The blast on August 4, 2020 was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, devastating swathes of th...
At least 76 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a boat carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants sank off Yemen, in the latest tragedy on the perilous sea route, officials told AFP on Monday.Yemeni security officials said 76 bodies had been recovered and 32 people rescued from the shipwrec...
Beijing issued its highest alert for rainstorms on Monday, days after deadly deluges swept parts of the Chinese capital and triggered a rare apology from under-prepared officials.The municipal weather service announced a red alert -- the highest in a four-tier system -- forecasting heavy rain from n...
South Korea said on Monday it has started removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports into the North, as a new administration in Seoul tries to ease tensions with its bellicose neighbour.The nations, still technically at war, had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilita...
The United Nations on Monday announced plans to enhance air mail security, one year after parcels exploded at DHL depots in Germany and Britain, in a plot blamed on Russia.The strategy announced by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and Universal Postal Union -- two specialized UN ...
Sports
The Los Angeles Olympics are three years away, but Summer McIntosh showed at the swimming world championships why she will be one of the stars of the Games while 12-year-old Yu Zidi is shaping up to be a major threat.The United States also demonstrated that tales of their demise were exaggerated as ...
Sports,Football
Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi will be sidelined indefinitely with what the MLS team described as a "minor muscle injury in his right leg" in a statement on Sunday.The 38-year-old Argentine legend suffered an upper right leg injury early in Miami's penalty-kicks home win over Mexico&...
Sports,Tennis
Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek became the latest seed to fall at the WTA Canadian Open on Sunday, stunned 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 by 19th-ranked Dane Clara Tauson in the fourth round.Swiatek, ranked third in the world and seeded second in Montreal, followed top-seeded Coco Gauff, third-seeded two-time defend...
Business
Saudi Arabia, Russia and six other key members of the OPEC+ alliance are expected to further hike oil production in a meeting Sunday, a move analysts say is aimed at regaining market share amid resilient crude prices.The anticipated output increase by the group of eight oil-producing countries known...
Entertainment
Indian filmmakers are rushing to secure movie titles inspired by the recent India-Pakistan conflict, aiming to benefit from a wave of nationalism sparked by the four-day clash that left over 70 people dead.The nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged artillery, drone, and air strikes in May after India bl...
Lionel Messi suffered an injury and was removed in the 11th minute of Inter Miami's Leagues Cup penalty kicks victory over Mexico's Necaxa on Saturday at Fort Lauderdale's Chase Stadium.The 38-year-old Argentine superstar forward appeared to be having treatment on his upper right leg or ...
The premier of the Australian state of Victoria announced Saturday plans to enshrine working from home in law, saying it should be "a right, not a request".Under Jacinta Allan's plan, workers would be entitled to work from home at least two days per week, if the job allows."We'...
World,Back Page
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire and air strikes killed at least 22 people on Friday, including eight who were waiting to collect food aid in the war-battered Palestinian territory.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that five people were killed in a strike in the sout...
Eurozone inflation remained stable in July, official data showed Friday, confounding expectations that consumer price rises would ease.Inflation in the single currency area stood at 2.0 percent last month, the EU's statistics agency said, sustained in part by a smaller drop in energy prices than...
President Donald Trump's special envoy promised a plan to deliver more food to Gaza after inspecting a US-backed distribution centre on Friday, as the United Nations said Israeli forces had killed hundreds of hungry Palestinians waiting for aid over the past two months.The visit by US envoy Stev...
South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in illegal gold mines in the northeast of the country.A police spokesman for the Mpumalanga province, where the week-long sweep took place, told AFP there could be more arrests because there are still illega...
Two jihadist attacks in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed "several dozens" of soldiers and civilians, two security sources and a local source told AFP on Friday.In a "major" attack carried out on Monday, a military unit in the village of Dargo was targeted by "...
Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Wipha since last month have killed six people and affected more than 230,000 people across Thailand, disaster management officials said Saturday.Since 21 July, heavy rains have inundated 12 provinces, mostly in the northern and central regions, accor...
An international team of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS)."Docking confirmed!", SpaceX posted on social media, along with a video showing the spacecraft making contact with the ISS at 2:27 am Eastern Tim...
A Colombian judge on Friday sentenced still-powerful former president Alvaro Uribe to 12 years of house arrest, capping a long and contentious career that defined Colombian politics for a generation.Uribe, 73, received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering.The s...
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