R. Kelly has a “dark” and “hidden” side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial. The R&B singer was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York court last year. He was later sentenced to 30 […]
Month: August 2022
LONDON : Britain has launched a scheme to extend tariff cuts to hundreds of products, such as clothes and food, from developing countries, part of London’s post-Brexit efforts to set up systems to replace those run by the European Union. In June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to […]
SAO PAULO: The race for Brazil’s October elections officially opens today with duelling campaign events by far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva highlighting the South American giant’s deep divides. Front-runners Bolsonaro and Lula, who have in reality been on the campaign trail for months, […]
SEOUL: The United States, South Korea and Japan participated in a ballistic missile defence exercise off Hawaii’s coast last week, the Pentagon said today, reviving combined drills with an eye on North Korea as well as China. It was the first time the three countries have held such drills since […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand tomorrow, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said. Rajapaksa flew to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered […]
SINGAPORE: Just a year ago, Loh Kean Yew was ranked 40th in the world. Eliminated in the group stages of the men’s singles at the Tokyo Olympics, his last tournament win was two years prior. By his own admission, Loh was an unknown entity. The Singaporean’s claim to fame was […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s foreign minister said today that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit as an excuse to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island. Joseph Wu told a press conference in Taipei that Taiwan, which is claimed by […]
SHANGHAI: Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing today, including the Chinese autonomous region’s two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in tropical Hainan and in Xinjiang in China’s west. Subvariants of the highly transmissible Omicron are challenging China’s strategy of swiftly blocking the […]
TOKYO : Japan’s Fast Retailing, the owner of global clothing chain Uniqlo, said on Thursday it would open its first discount brand GU store in the United States this autumn. The store will open in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City in what will be the brand’s debut outside […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Covid-19 winter outbreak fuelled by the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4/5 may have peaked early, Health Minister Mark Butler said today, as hospitals reported a steady fall in admissions over the past week. Australia is battling one of its worst flare-ups of the coronavirus driven by the fast-moving new […]