Pro-Beijing activists holding placards and flags hand over a petition at the US consulate general in Hong Kong. BEIJING: China on Wednesday (Jul 15) said it would retaliate after US President Donald Trump signed into law an Act allowing sanctions on banks over Beijing’s clampdown on Hong Kong. The […]
Day: July 14, 2020
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp described as “not a good day for football” Manchester City’s successful appeal against a two-year UEFA ban for allegedly breaking Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. “I don’t think it was a good day for football yesterday, to be honest,” Klopp told a virtual news conference […]
MANCHESTER: If there is one thing that still riles Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, it is the suggestion that his Premier League success is down to money. After City were cleared of breaking UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which overturned the club’s two-year […]
PARIS: Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine per cent in a decade driven by mankind’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday (Jul 15). Methane (CH4) has a warming potential 28 times […]
SYDNEY: New Zealand must prepare for new coronavirus outbreaks as the pandemic spreads globally but will not drop its elimination strategy if community transmission was discovered, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday (Jul 15). Ardern said the epidemic was now “exploding” outside New Zealand and countries that had been […]
LA PAZ: Thousands of demonstrators defied quarantine restrictions and marched on the Bolivian capital La Paz on Tuesday (Jul 14) to protest against the government of interim President Jeanine Anez. “The people are expressing their needs, they are expressing their voice in protest,” said Juan Carlos Huarachi, leader of the […]
Manchester City’s legal victory at the Court of Arbitration for Sports on Monday may be its most important one yet, says John Duerden. SINGAPORE: Monday (Jul 13) may have seen the most significant football result of the season but while Union of European Football Associations’ (UEFA) Financial Fair Play (FFP) […]
WASHINGTON: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said on Tuesday (Jul 14) that if all Americans wore a mask, the rising cases of COVID-19 could be under control within four to eight weeks. Redfield was speaking in an online interview with the Journal of the […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old anchor of its liberal faction, has been hospitalised for a suspected infection, the court said on Tuesday (Jul 14). Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Jul 14) downplayed police violence against black people, saying that “more white people” are killed by police officers. During an interview with CBS News, the Republican president was asked why black people were still dying at the hands of law enforcement. “And so are […]