World
The head of the Christian Lebanese Forces party (LF) denied late on Friday his group had planned street violence in Beirut that killed seven people, and said a meeting held the day before was purely political.Thursday's violence, which began as people were gathering for a protest called by Shiit...
Taliban authorities pledged to step up security at Shi'ite mosques as hundreds of people gathered on Saturday to bury the victims of the second Islamic State suicide attack on worshippers in a week.Hardline Sunni group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on the Fatima mosque in K...
Business & Commerce
Thousands of Sydney residents flocked to a premier horse race on Saturday, as Australia’s largest city emerges from a strict Covid-19 lockdown and the nation begins to live with the coronavirus through extensive vaccination.Up to 10,000 fully vaccinated spectators can now attend races such as ...
Supply chain woes and growing inflation concerns pushed aside a widening gap in COVID-19 vaccinations and mounting debt problems for developing countries as the top concerns for global policymakers at International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings this week.Relatively little new pro...
Sports,Football
Peru missed a second-half penalty in a 1-0 loss to Argentina in Buenos Aires on Thursday, delivering another blow to their hopes of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.Trailing to a first-half goal from Lautaro Martinez, Peru had a golden opportunity to level the score when substitute Jefferson Farfan...
Raphinha turned in another eye-catching performance for Brazil on Thursday by scoring twice in the home side’s 4-1 victory over Uruguay in a World Cup qualifier.Brazil took the lead after 10 minutes when Neymar chested down a pass from Fred and rounded the keeper before firing low between...
Turkey is preparing for possible further military action against a US-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria if talks on the issue with the United States and Russia fail, two Turkish officials said.President Tayyip Erdogan said this week Ankara was determined to eliminate threats originating ...
The Australian city of Sydney will allow the entry of fully vaccinated travellers from overseas from Nov. 1 without the need for quarantine, authorities said on Friday, although the easing of strict entry controls will initially benefit only citizens.The decision comes as New South Wales state, of w...
The fate of a probe into the Beirut port explosion appears in increasing doubt after a bitter political dispute about the actions of the judge leading the investigation set off Lebanon's bloodiest street violence in more than a decade.Seven Shi'ite Muslims were killed by gunfire that began a...
China, already a global leader in renewable energy, is seeking to raise the bar dramatically on wind and solar capacity with a massive new project in the desert.The initiative, which is at least twice the size of the next-largest planned global development, comes as the nation attempts to quickly ra...
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that if she is elected president next year she will end all subsidies for renewable energy and will take down France's wind turbines.Le Pen, who will be the candidate of the Rassemblement National party in the April vote, made it to the ...
President Vladimir Putin drew a connection on Wednesday (Oct 13) between resolving Europe's natural gas crisis and gaining regulatory approval for the Russian-backed, politically fraught Nord Stream 2 pipeline.Natural gas prices have soared in recent months, and with them Europeans' heating ...
The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic curbs on non-essential travellers in place since March 2020 to address the Covid-19 pandemic, two US officials said on Tuesday.US Homeland Sec...
Growing pressure over a judicial probe into final 12 months’s Beirut port blast threatens to push Lebanon into yet one more political disaster, testing Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s new authorities because it struggles to dig the nation out of financial collapse.More than a 12 months bec...
A 58th career hat-trick from Cristiano Ronaldo helped Portugal stroll to a 5-0 home win over Luxembourg in Group A of World Cup qualifying on Tuesday.The treble, which meant Ronaldo became the first man to net 10 international hat-tricks, takes his tally to 115 international goals from 182 caps as h...
Oil held near $84 a barrel on Tuesday, within sight of a three-year high, supported by a rebound in global demand that is contributing to energy shortages in big economies such as China.With demand growing as economies recover from pandemic lows, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Russia and the United States failed to make any major progress in a row over the functioning of their embassies at talks in Moscow on Tuesday and there is a risk that relations could worsen further, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.With ties already at post-Cold War lows, the...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi hosted a special summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan, as worries grow about a looming humanitarian disaster following the Taliban's return to power.Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on Aug. 15, the country - alread...
Qatar believes that recognising the Taliban government in Afghanistan is not a priority now, and that the focus should be on engaging with the new administration and addressing humanitarian issues, a senior Qatari official said on Tuesday.Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, special envoy of the Qatari foreign minist...
At a recent Virginia rally, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin talked up his plans to boost the economy and fight crime, and said nothing at all about false claims that Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory was the result of fraud.But some in the crowd heard the messag...
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