LIMA: A staggering more than 900 girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since the COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said on Monday (Jul 27). The Andean nation home to 33 million people long has had a horrific domestic violence problem. But COVID-19, which has compounded home confinement […]
Year: 2020
REUTERS: CONCACAF has unveiled a new qualification format for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after COVID-19 forced a rejig of the usual system, the governing body for soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean said on Monday. The new format, which will feature all 35 of the […]
OTTAWA: Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on Monday (Jul 27) demanded the release of unredacted Canadian spy service documents they say would reveal a plot between the FBI and Canada to “trick” their client. Meng, the Chinese telecom giant’s chief financial officer, was arrested on a US warrant in […]
MADRID: Britain made a mistake when it decided at the weekend to slap a quarantine on people travelling from Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday (Jul 27), saying most of the Mediterranean country had a lower coronavirus infection rate than the UK. Sanchez was speaking just after Britain […]
REUTERS: Brighton & Hove Albion have signed midfielder Adam Lallana on a free transfer from champions Liverpool, the Premier League club announced on Monday. The out-of-contract Lallana, who has won 34 England caps, found himself increasingly on the fringes at Anfield during their title run this season and was expected […]
FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers are pictured while patients recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are being released from the “Tierra y Libertad” public hospital in Monterrey, Mexico July 24, 2020. MEXICO CITY: Mexico has 395,489 total reported coronavirus cases and 44,022 deaths, the fourth highest death tally worldwide, according […]
Intel Corp’s Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala is departing, part of a move in which a key technology unit will be separated into five teams, the chipmaker said on Monday. REUTERS: Intel Corp’s Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala is departing, part of a move in which a key technology unit […]
PARIS: The first five of a batch of French Rafale fighter jets purchased by New Delhi in a controversial multibillion-dollar deal headed to India on Monday (Jul 27) for rapid deployment amid rising tensions with China. The deal, estimated to be worth US$9.4 billion, has been overshadowed by corruption allegations […]
TEGUCIGALPA: Honduras said on Monday (Jul 27) it had seized 900 kilos (1,984 pounds) of cocaine in a joint operation with Colombia. Military and police authorities intercepted a fishing boat on Sunday in the eastern department of Gracias a Dios. The cocaine was stashed in hidden compartments, the armed forces […]
PARIS: France’s new confirmed COVID-19 cases were up by a daily average of 850 over the last three days, a slight decrease versus the 1,000-plus figure published on Thursday and Friday, but a higher total than May’s daily average, when the country started unwinding its lockdown. In a statement, the […]