SEOUL: A South Korean court ordered Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un to compensate two former prisoners of war who spent decades as forced labourers in the North, in a move that could set a far-reaching legal precedent on the divided peninsula. The ruling was the first time a South Korean […]
Year: 2020
MILAN: AC Milan scored three times in five astonishing second-half minutes as they hit back from two goals down to beat visiting Serie A leaders Juventus 4-2 on Tuesday, the first points dropped by the Turin side since the season restarted last month. Juve appeared to be cruising to another […]
MELBOURNE: Shoppers in Australia’s second-biggest city stripped supermarket shelves Wednesday (Jul 8) as millions in Melbourne prepared for a return to virus lockdown, with warnings the new restrictions will cost the economy A$1 billion (US$700 million) a week. Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning midnight […]
TATSUNO, Japan: As the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a spectacle that usually draws crowds of delighted visitors. But this year, the dance of the incandescent insects is being performed without spectators, after coronavirus prevention measures forced organisers of a popular […]
WASHINGTON: A top US general said on Tuesday (Jul 7) he was not convinced any Russian bounties resulted in the deaths of US troops in Afghanistan, even as he acknowledged his concerns about Russian intentions toward the United States. US officials say the United States acquired intelligence suggesting that Russia […]
LONDON: Scientists warned on Wednesday (Jul 8) of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium. A study by researchers at University College London (UCL) described 43 cases of patients with COVID-19 who suffered either […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand said on Wednesday (Jul 8) that a 32-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 will be charged after briefly absconding from an isolation facility in Auckland, the latest slip-up as the country tries to keep coronavirus cases at its border. The man, who was in quarantine after […]
SYDNEY: Long queues of cars banked up on either side of one of Australia’s busiest internal border crossings on Tuesday (Jul 8) after it was closed overnight in a bid to contain a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus in the country’s second-biggest city. Police checkpoints caused delays of more than […]
LONDON: British finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce on Wednesday (Jul 8) his next moves to prevent a wave of job cuts from snowballing into a full-blown unemployment crisis in the world’s sixth-biggest economy. Sunak is already on course to take Britain’s borrowing to World War II levels as he […]
WASHINGTON: The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Tuesday (Jul 7) that China is pushing its preferences in the United States election as part of broad intelligence operations, whose economic impact he called unprecedented. Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, did not say whether China backed […]