BOURNEMOUTH: Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake is unlikely to feature in their three remaining Premier League games this season after picking up a knock in Sunday’s (Jul 12) 4-1 win over Leicester City, manager Eddie Howe said. The centre back, who started 29 league matches this season, was taken off after […]
Day: July 12, 2020
SPIELBERG, Austria: Six-times world champion Lewis Hamilton dominated the Styrian Grand Prix in a Mercedes one-two on Sunday (Jul 12) to celebrate his 85th Formula One win and move a step closer to Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 victories. Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas, winner of last weekend’s season-opener that […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore has developed a blockchain-based payments network that could enable faster and cheaper international settlements, authorities said on Monday (Jul 13), adding that the next step was a commercial rollout. The final phase of the years-long Project Ubin saw the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) team up with state […]
MADRID: Ruling parties in Spain’s Galicia and Basque country were returned to office in the first polls held in the country since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and as new cases spike. With almost all votes counted, the conservative Popular Party in Galicia and the Basque Nationalist Party had […]
SINGAPORE: Oil slipped in early Asian trade on Monday (Jul 13) as traders eyed an OPEC technical meeting this week which is expected to recommend an easing in supply cuts that have been propping up crude prices. Brent crude fell 27 cents to US$42.97 a barrel by 0114 GMT while […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state reported 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday (Jul 13), with a growing cluster at a pub used by freight drivers travelling the country adding to fears of a second national wave of the virus. The new cases in New South Wales come after neighbouring […]
SKOPJE, North Macedonia: Small and landlocked North Macedonia, which votes Wednesday in a parliamentary election, made headlines when it changed its name to end a dispute with Greece last year. As the country prepares for the poll, here are five things to know about the Balkan state that emerged from […]
SOFIA: Thousands of Bulgarians gathered for a fourth day on Sunday (Jul 12) in Sofia and other cities to protest against corruption and demand the resignation of the conservative government. Over 3,000 protesters shouted “Mafia” and “Resign” outside the government headquarters in Sofia and marched to parliament. The protests in […]
LA PAZ: Bolivia’s economy minister said on Sunday (Jul 12) that he tested positive for COVID-19, making him the fourth Cabinet member with the virus, in addition to the country’s interim president who is in quarantine. Economy Minister Oscar Ortiz joins the ranks of the ministers of health and mining, […]
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority on Sunday (Jul 12) imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising COVID-19 numbers. “Travel will be prohibited daily from 8pm to 6am in all governorates,” as well as from Thursday evening […]