TOKYO: Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium will host its first track and field meeting on 23 Aug 23, exactly two weeks after the 2020 Games’ athletics were due to end, World Athletics announced on Friday (Jul 31). The field will be largely made up of Japanese or Japan-based athletes. “Given the […]
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GENEVA: The global coronavirus outbreak is the sort of disaster whose effects will last far into the future, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday (Jul 31). “The pandemic is a once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come,” Tedros […]
NEW YORK: US Open organizers say they are confident in safety plans a month ahead of the Grand Slam tennis event in New York even as US COVID-19 outbreaks increase. The US Tennis Association (USTA) said Friday it “continues its plans to stage the US Open” as well as an […]
German manufacturer OHB-System has signed a €445m (£400m) contract to begin construction of a satellite network to monitor carbon dioxide. The CO2M constellation will consist in the first instance of two spacecraft, but there is an option for a third. The platforms will track the greenhouse gas across the globe, […]
Huawei’s top manager in Germany has appealed to the government not to shut it out of building 5G mobile networks, Der Spiegel said on Friday, after Britain decided to purge the Chinese firm’s equipment from its network on security grounds. BERLIN: Huawei’s top manager in Germany has appealed to the […]
Ford Motor Co said on Friday it had won approval to defer some quarterly payments due on its U.S. Energy Department retooling loan but added it will repay the loan on time by June 2022. REUTERS: Ford Motor Co said on Friday it had won approval to defer some quarterly […]
BEIJING: Chinese tech giant ByteDance is considering listing its domestic business in Hong Kong or Shanghai, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, against a backdrop of rising Sino-U.S. tensions over its hit non-China video app TikTok. Of the two venues, the company prefers Hong Kong, according to two of […]
MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday (Jul 31) it would respond with reciprocal measures to European Union travel and financial sanctions against a department of Russia’s military intelligence service for alleged cyberattacks. “Of course this unfriendly action by the EU will not be left unanswered,” the ministry said in […]
LONDON: U.S. travel management firm CWT paid US$4.5 million this week to hackers who stole reams of sensitive corporate files and said they had knocked 30,000 computers offline, according to a record of the ransom negotiations seen by Reuters. The attackers used a strain of ransomware called Ragnar Locker, which […]
WASHINGTON: U.S. consumer spending increased for a second straight month in June, setting up consumption for a rebound in the third quarter, though the recovery could be limited by a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and the end of expanded unemployment benefits. The Commerce Department said on Friday that consumer spending, […]