U.S. officials had expressed low expectations for Blinken’s meeting with Lavrov, and in brief remarks beforehand both envoys expressed little hope for a breakthrough. The United States and Russia scaled back their confrontational rhetoric over Eastern European security Friday, agreeing to extend negotiations as the Biden administration pursues a fragile […]
Month: January 2022
MELBOURNE : As Ash Barty was ascending the ranks of women’s tennis, renowned Australian coach Darren Cahill regularly predicted the Queenslander was a champion in the making. Leading into the 2019 Australian Open, when Barty was still to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final, Cahill described her as “the real deal” […]
Co-chief executive officer and chief content officer for the streaming service Ted Sarandos confirmed Squid Game season 2 during Netflix’s fourth-quarter interview as per Variety. The second season of Netflix’s megahit South Korean TV series Squid Game is officially confirmed. Co-chief executive officer and chief content officer for the streaming […]
TOKYO : Japan could open up to blank-cheque listings but with its own safeguards for investors, the head of the Tokyo bourse said, as the government scrambles to grow startup firms as a way to revitalise the world’s third-largest economy. The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has set up a study […]
OSLO : Norway’s Telenor said on Thursday it had partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to speed up the modernisation of its telecoms systems, boosting the use of cloud technology to offer 5G and low-latency data services to professional customers. In collaboration with the U.S. tech giant, Telenor will develop […]
MELBOURNE : Sam Stosur’s 69th and final appearance in a Grand Slam singles draw ended in a 6-2 6-2 second-round loss to 10th seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the Australian Open on Thursday. The 37-year-old said last month that she would focus only on doubles after her 20th singles appearance […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden came in facing extraordinary challenges: A nation divided after the Donald Trump years, the Covid pandemic, and an economy in tumult. And he promised Americans a lot: To heal the country’s democracy, defeat Covid, address deep-rooted racial and economic problems, and restore US standing around […]
Netflix series Arcane is a show that delivers uniformly. A narrative-rich video game adaptation with stunning visuals and stellar background score to match. What’s not to love? Video game adaptations that are cool-looking and narratively rich. You may well ask if they even exist, given the history of mostly mediocre […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Jan 19) said it was too soon to make commitments on lifting US tariffs on Chinese goods, but his chief trade negotiator Katherine Tai was working on the issue. “I’d like to be able to be in a position where I could say they’re […]
SYDNEY: The undersea telecommunications cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world that was damaged by a volcano eruption will take at least a month to fix, its owner said today, with the delay likely hampering disaster recovery efforts. The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which has […]