Business
Asian markets were mixed Thursday as traders kept an eye on earnings from Wall Street titans this week while tracking US trade talks just over a week before the deadline for a deal.Japanese stocks edged up and the yen held gains after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he will stay in power despite ...
World
The World Health Organization said Monday its facilities in Gaza had come under Israeli attack, echoing calls from Western countries for an immediate ceasefire as Israel expanded military operations to the central city of Deir el-Balah.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Israeli military h...
Sri Lanka's police chief is set to be sacked, the country's speaker of parliament announced Tuesday after he was found guilty of heading a criminal network at an impeachment hearing.Inspector-General Deshabandu Tennakoon would become the first head of police in the island's history to be...
North Korea vowed to build an additional 5,000-ton destroyer for its navy, state media reported Tuesday, after the nuclear-armed country launched two similar vessels this year.Leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to ramp up his country's naval capacities, and presided over the April launch of the countr...
Sports,Football
From being a bit-part player in the team that won the Women's World Cup two years ago, Athenea del Castillo has performed a key role in Spain's run to the semi-finals of Euro 2025, in which they will face Germany on Wednesday.The Real Madrid attacker, 24, was brought into Spain's startin...
Sports,Cricket
India must make a crucial call on the fitness of star pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah for the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford on Wednesday.England can clinch the series with a victory in Manchester but they have top order questions to resolve, while Ben Stokes and Ravindra Jadeja will be look...
Sports,Tennis
Scottie Scheffler romped to a magnificent four-shot victory to seal his first British Open title at Royal Portrush on Sunday, notching his fourth major success.The world number one eased to a three-under par final round of 68, finishing on 17-under for the tournament after shooting in the 60s on all...
Having comeback from the brink of elimination against Sweden in the last eight, England will hope to live up to their billing as favourites when they face Italy in the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Tuesday.Theholders aretantalisingly close to another major tournament final, with a showdown...
Equities mostly rose Monday on optimism countries will reach US trade deals before an August 1 deadline, while the yen gained after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would stay in office despite another election defeat.Hong Kong topped 25,000 points for the first time in three years as ...
The European Central Bank is set to hold interest rates for the first time in almost a year when policymakers meet this week, despite concerns over the potential impact of higher US tariffs on the eurozone economy.The 26 members of the ECB's governing council will meet just over a week before an...
China confirmed that top leaders from the European Union will visit on Thursday for a summit, as the two major trading partners seek to smooth over a series of trade disputes."As agreed between China and the EU, President of the European Council Antonio Costa and President of the European Commi...
The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a 2024 escape from a maximum security penitentiary, the country's prison authority said.The flight transporting Macias la...
Three people died and more than 500 others were rescued after a ferry caught fire off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, emergency officials said Monday.Passengers jumped overboard with lifejackets after the fire broke out on Sunday at the stern of the KM Barcelona 5, as it sailed to Manado, accordi...
An Israeli military order for residents and displaced people in Gaza's Deir el-Balah area to move south dealt "another devastating blow" to humanitarian efforts in the war-ravaged territory, the UN's OCHA aid agency said on Sunday.The United Nations Office for the Coordination of H...
World,Back Page
Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging China's dominance of the sector.Pliable perovskite panels are perfect for mountainous Japan, with its shortage of flat plots for traditional solar...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory's north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more.Further to the south, the Israeli military ordered Palestinians to leave Deir el-Balah, in...
From his monitoring station on a remote hill in the occupied West Bank, water operator Subhil Olayan keeps watch over a lifeline for Palestinians, the Ein Samiyah spring.So when Israeli settlers recently attacked the system of wells, pumps and pipelines he oversees, he knew the stakes."There is...
Rescuers were desperately searching for five people still missing on Sunday after 37 were killed when a boat capsized in one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations.The tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay was lashed by a storm on Saturday in one of the UN...
Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged sea floor ecosystems -- or how long it would take.One of the last wild zones on the planet, the sea floor is a coveted frontier for companies and c...
UK police arrested over 100 people in London and other cities for supporting Palestine Action in a third consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws.Some 55 people were held at a demonstration in London's Parliament Square u...
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