NICE: French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country’s second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month. France will not “give up on our values,” Macron said in Nice, after a Tunisian […]
Month: October 2020
SINGAPORE: After more than 160 years in Singapore, Robinsons is closing its last two department stores at The Heeren and Raffles City Shopping Centre. Robinsons, which is owned by the Al-Futtaim Group, said in a press release on Friday (Oct 30) the decision came on the back of changing retail […]
NEW YORK: ExxonMobil said on Thursday (Oct 29) it could cut its global workforce by about 15 per cent, including deep white-collar staff reductions in the United States, as the COVID-19 pandemic batters energy demand and prices. Exxon and other oil producers have been slashing costs due to a collapse […]
WASHINGTON: The United States notched a record number of new coronavirus cases yesterday, for the first time topping 90,000 diagnoses in 24 hours, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country, which has seen a resurgence of its Covid-19 outbreak since mid-October, recorded 91,295 new cases in the […]
WASHINGTON: The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states yesterday reported record daily increases in new infections. The hardest-hit regions in the West and Midwest encompass […]
PARIS: France and Germany moved yesterday toward shutting down sectors of their economies as part of accelerating efforts worldwide to check a resurgent coronavirus and still limit the financial fallout. Hundreds of thousands of new infections took the known global caseload past 44.5 million with nearly 1.2 million deaths, as […]
Over the last seven months, many of us have become used to the existential horror of Zoom calls with our colleagues. The prurient thrill of glimpsing their book collection, or the dirty laundry on their bedroom floor, has given way to a sort of Groundhog Day of socially-isolated sadness, as […]
NEW YORK: New York and other parts of the northeastern United States, which have kept the coronavirus outbreak under control after being an early epicenter in the country, are now seeing a worrying rise in infections. While the number of new cases is far from the high levels currently seen […]
LONDON: The cancellation of England’s game against the Barbarians because of COVID protocol breaches made rugby a laughing stock and his team have a responsibility to put the smile back on fans’ faces, England coach Eddie Jones said on Thursday. On the day the RFU was bringing charges against the […]
LAS VEGAS: A charity bout between former champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr next month is being billed as an exhibition but both boxers described it as war on Thursday (Oct 29), promising to hold nothing back even if they have to fight under women’s rules. The boxing greats, […]