WASHINGTON : Toyota Motor Corp said Monday it has not yet resumed production at its three manufacturing lines in Ontario even after a key U.S.-Canadian bridge reopened. The Japanese automaker’s plants in Ontario, where it builds its best-selling RAV4 sport utility vehicle, have halted production since Thursday because of parts […]
Year: 2022
LAHORE: Pakistani appeals court today acquitted the brother of social media star Qandeel Baloch of her murder, a 2016 killing that sparked national outrage and changes in laws covering so-called “honour killings”. Muhammad Waseem appealed against his 2019 murder conviction and life sentence. A court in the central city of […]
BEIJING : Yuzuru Hanyu left his legion of squealing fans in the dark and wondering whether they would ever see their Japanese figure skating hero compete again as millions tuned in live on Monday for his news conference on the sidelines of the Beijing Games. The 27-year-old fell short of […]
Friends has a vast fan base in China. Many watched it on pirated DVDs or downloads after the hit 10-season show first aired in the 1990s. Chinese fans of U.S. sitcom Friends have expressed dismay online after noticing censorship in recently released episodes of the beloved show, including of LGBT […]
BEIJING: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to investigate the entourage of Kamila Valieva as the teenage Russian figure skater awaits her fate in a doping case at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday. A Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) hearing is scheduled to take […]
SHAH ALAM: The country’s top men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia no longer wants to play second fiddle to world champion Loh Kean Yew when Malaysia take on Singapore in the 2022 Asian Team Badminton Championships (BATC) on Wednesday. Having lost to Kean Yew in their last two meetings out […]
PARIS: French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was dealt a fresh blow today as her party’s only senator became the latest member to throw his support behind rival Eric Zemmour ahead of April’s election. Polls currently show Le Pen reaching a second round run-off against President Emmanuel Macron, […]
WASHINGTON: White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said today that a Russian invasion could begin any day and the United States will continue to share intelligence with the world to deny Moscow the ability to stage a surprise “false flag” operation to launch an attack. Sullivan, speaking on CNN’s […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the “imminent” threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv. His words came after Ukraine’s president urged calm, saying the biggest enemy was panic. More than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine. […]
PARIS: Thousands of opponents of Covid rules were encamped on the outskirts of Paris early Saturday after driving in convoys from across France, intent on entering the city in defiance of a ban by authorities who are determined to prevent any blockade of the capital. Nearly 7,200 police and gendarmes […]