A promotional campaign features Wong (Benedict Wong) and Doctor Strange’s Cloak of Levitation. It has a nice bit of callback for the fans of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies. As Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness‘ release nears, the marketing and promotion machinery of Disney and Marvel is […]
Year: 2022
MOSCOW: A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol today after Ukraine proposed talks on evacuating troops and civilians there. Mariupol would be the biggest city to be seized by Russia since invading […]
JAKARTA : Indonesia’s exports and imports hit record highs in March amid rising commodity prices due to the impacts of the Ukraine war, helping the resource-rich country book a wider-than-expected trade surplus, statistics bureau data showed on Monday. March exports from Indonesia were worth $26.5 billion, up 44.36per cent on […]
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to “destroy” the entire eastern region of Donbas, as the last remaining forces in the strategic port of Mariupol prepared Monday for a final defence. Moscow is pushing for a major victory in the southern city as it works to wrest […]
SHANGHAI: The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, Covid-negative against Covid-positive people. Shanghai’s 25 million people, most of whom live in apartment blocks, have forged new communal bonds during the city’s coronavirus outbreak, through barter and group […]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s fractious governing coalition faced a new split on Sunday when Arab-Israeli party Raam “suspended” its membership, after violence around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site that wounded 170 people over the weekend. The government — an ideologically disparate mix of left-wing, hardline Jewish nationalist and religious parties, as well […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a tweet on Saturday saying “Love Me Tender”, days after he took aim at Twitter Inc with a $43 billion cash takeover offer. After Musk’s TED talk on Thursday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter’s board […]
SHANGHAI: The Chinese city of Shanghai warned today that anyone who violates strict Covid-19 lockdown rules will be dealt with strictly, while also rallying people to defend their city as its tally of new cases rebounded to more than 25,000. The city police department spelled out the restrictions that most […]
BAYBAY (Philippines): The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 58 today, official tallies showed, as rescuers dug up more bodies with their bare hands in villages crushed by rain-induced avalanches of mud and earth. Most of the deaths from tropical storm Megi ― the strongest […]
WELLINGTON: Australians started arriving in New Zealand today after it opened its borders to travellers from its neighbouring nation for the first time since mid-2021. New Zealand had some of the toughest curbs in the world during the pandemic and its borders have been closed for most of the time […]