Sports,Football
Real Madrid produced a spectacular comeback against Bayern Munich to reach the Champions League final with Joselu striking twice late on, earning them a 2-1 win on Wednesday to progress 4-3 on aggregate.Alphonso Davies smashed the visiting German giants ahead in the second half but record 14-time wi...
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Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday said it was withdrawing Covid vaccine Vaxzevria, one of the first produced in the deadly pandemic, citing “commercial reasons” following a slump in demand.“As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a s...
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Israel struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after seizing the main border crossing with Egypt, where negotiators were working to make good on their "last chance" to cement a ceasefire deal.After weeks of vowing to launch a ground incursion into the border city of Rafah despite int...
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The number of displaced people in Myanmar has reached three million, the United Nations said, the vast majority forced to flee their homes by conflict unleashed by the military’s 2021 coup.Around 2.7 million have fled since the putsch that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s government after a sh...
World
UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday decried "completely unsatisfactory" cooperation from Tehran after returning from Iran where he urged leaders to adopt "concrete" measures to address concerns over its nuclear programme.Grossi's visit came at a time of heighten...
Mats Hummels headed in the only goal as Borussia Dortmund stunned Kylian Mbappe and Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League semi-final second leg on Tuesday, winning 1-0 on the night and advancing 2-0 on aggregate to next month's final at Wembley.Hummels struck five minutes into the second...
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Sara Curtis will be among Italy's youngest athletes at the Paris Olympics but the teenage swimming sensation is a confident figure unconcerned about reaction to her mixed-race background.The 17-year-old, whose performances in the pool have led to comparisons with former Olympic and world champio...
Business & Commerce
Amazon said Tuesday it would invest $9 billion in Singapore over the next four years to expand its cloud computing capabilities in the city.The tech giant said the figure doubles its investment in the city-state and will help it meet growing demand for cloud services and adopt artificial intelligenc...
British energy giant BP said on Tuesday net profit slumped 72 percent in the first quarter, as gas prices declined from a year earlier.Profit after tax tumbled to $2.3 billion from $8.2 billion in the first three months of 2023, BP said.Total revenue dropped 13 percent to $48.9 billion. Alongside th...
Two suspected rebels were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a firefight with soldiers, police said Tuesday, at a time when campaigning for national elections is underway in the disputed territory.Scores of soldiers besieged a residential area in southern Kulgam district, some 70 kilometre...
The Olympic flame is set to arrive in the French port of Marseille on Wednesday in front of a crowd of up to 150,000 people in a first major test of the hugely ambitious plans for the Paris Games.The transfer of the flame onshore from a 19th-century tall ship will mark the start of a 12,000-kilometr...
A Myanmar ethnic armed group said on Monday it had captured a military command and taken hundreds of junta personnel prisoner in western Rakhine state, the latest blow to the military.Clashes have rocked Rakhine since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked security forces in November, ending a ceasefire that...
UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi is set to arrive in Iran on Monday, where he is expected to speak at a conference and meet officials for talks on Tehran's nuclear programme.The visit comes at a time of heightened regional tensions and with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cri...
President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday the Philippines would not respond in kind to China's deployment of water cannon against its vessels, ruling out the use of "offensive" equipment as Manila asserts its sovereignty in the disputed South China Sea.Beijing has dispatched hundreds of c...
Jose Raul Mulino, the protege of a graft-convicted former head of state, was declared Panama's president-elect after elections Sunday.Mulino, 64, won the single-round, first-past-the-post race with more than a third of votes cast, the Central American country's electoral tribunal said....
Efforts aimed at securing an elusive truce in exchange for hostages held in Gaza were due to resume Monday as disagreement between Israel and Hamas over demands to end the seven-month war intensified.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that "surrendering" to a demand to e...
Cesar Luis Menotti, who famously coached Argentina to their first World Cup triumph in 1978, has died at the age of 85, Argentina Football Association (AFA) announced on Sunday.“The AFA regrets to report with great sadness the death of Cesar Luis Menotti, former world champion coach of Argenti...
Paris Saint-Germain are bidding to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit and beat Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League semi-final return match on Tuesday, with the aim of bringing the curtain down on the Kylian Mbappe era at the club in the final at Wembley.The only time PSG have previously appear...
A Russian rocket strike on Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region killed two people and a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv injured at least six, officials said Sunday.The overnight attacks came as Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrated Easter."In Pokrovsk, rocket att...
Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 55 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the country's civil defense agency said on Saturday.At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said.The toll did n...
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