JAKARTA: Anti-graft officials arrested Indonesia’s minister for maritime affairs and fisheries, Edhy Prabowo, early today, an agency spokesman said, without giving a reason for the detention. The minister was among several people held and could be detained and questioned for up to 24 hours, added Ali Fikri of the Corruption […]
Year: 2020
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is seen on a screen as she delivers her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong November 25, 2020. HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today the government’s urgent priority was to restore the Chinese-ruled city’s constitutional […]
SAO PAULO: Brazil has gathered enough infection data from a late-stage trial of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech and expects to have interim results on its efficiency in early December, trial organisers said yesterday. Dimas Covas, director of Butantan biomedical research institute that is running the […]
LONDON: Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, who missed Sunday’s (Nov 22) 3-0 Premier League win over Leicester City after contracting COVID-19, has now tested negative and can return to training, manager Jurgen Klopp has said. Salah tested positive for the coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt last week. “That’s what […]
HONG KONG: Prominent democracy dissident Joshua Wong announced he and two other leading activists will plead guilty today at the opening of a trial over their involvement in last year’s protests, adding he expects to be jailed. Hong Kong was convulsed by seven straight months of huge and often violent […]
SEOUL: South Korea reported another daily rise of more than 200 new coronavirus cases today, a day after it tightened social distancing rules as it battles a third wave of infection. The daily tally of 271 new cases fell from 330 reported yesterday after hovering above 300 for five straight […]
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden will name his first cabinet picks tomorrow, his chief of staff said, even as Donald Trump continues to evoke unsubstantiated fraud despite growing dissent from within his own party. Biden has continued his preparations to assume the presidency on January 20 regardless of Trump’s moves […]
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool were not derailed by an injury crisis as Jurgen Klopp’s men produced a dominant display to beat Leicester 3-0 and move level on points with Premier League leaders Tottenham on Sunday (Nov 22). Klopp was missing seven first-team regulars through injury and top scorer Mohamed Salah due to […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s top military official said today the country’s defence force must ‘own’ a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again. The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan […]
WASHINGTON: A COVID-19 antibody therapy used to treat President Donald Trump was approved by the US drug regulator on Saturday (Nov 21) for people who aren’t yet hospitalised by the disease but are at high risk. The green light for drugmaker Regeneron came after REGEN-COV2, a combination of two lab-made […]