When Jose Mourinho returned to Italy to take charge of AS Roma he was keen to point out that turning around the capital club’s fortunes would take time but the early signs are not good as, once again, his players are not living up to his demands. Blaming players for […]
Year: 2022
MANILA : The Philippines’ Court of Appeals has cleared Japanese pachinko billionaire Kazuo Okada of fraud charges stemming from allegations that he misappropriated US$3.16 million from a casino-resort operator where he was chief executive. The appellate court, in a Dec. 9 ruling that was made public on Monday, reversed a […]
NUR-SULTAN: President Vladimir Putin said today that unrest in Kazakhstan had been exploited by destructive internal and external forces, and that the Russian-led CSTO military alliance would not allow other forces to destalibilise them. He said the deployment of CSTO troops had prevented armed groups from undermining the basis of […]
Oh Young Soo was nominated alongside Billy Crudup and Mark Duplass in “The Morning Show,” Kieran Culkin in “Succession,” and Brett Goldstein in “Ted Lasso.” Squid Game star Lee Jung Jae congratulated his co-star Oh Young Soo for his Golden Globe win. Oh Young Soo, who played the character of […]
NEW DELHI: India began administering booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine to frontline workers and vulnerable elderly people on Monday, with the fast-spreading Omicron variant fuelling an almost eight-fold rise in daily infections since the start of the year. India reported 179,723 new cases on Monday, most of them in the […]
World number one Ash Barty was in imperious form on Sunday (Jan 9) as the Australian handed Elena Rybakina a 6-3 6-2 defeat at Memorial Drive to win the Adelaide International and claim the 14th WTA title of her career. Barty, who won the event in 2020, dominated against the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rescuers were working Sunday (Jan 9) to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow. The resort town of Murree, around 70km northeast of Islamabad, was inundated with tourists and daytrippers last week after unusually […]
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April while collecting cans in East Harlem has died of his injuries, and his case is now deemed a homicide, New York City police said on Saturday (Jan 8). Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec 31, police said. The attack drew […]
American Amanda Anisimova battled through injury to beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-5 1-6 6-4 in the Melbourne Summer Set 2 final and claim her second WTA title on Sunday. Anisimova, playing her first final since she won the Copa Colsanitas in Bogota in April 2019, overcame a thigh injury to seal […]
With the negotiations looming — and the fate of Europe’s post-Cold War borders and NATO’s military presence on the continent at stake — Biden’s advisers say they are trying to signal to Putin exactly what he would face in hopes of influencing his decisions in coming weeks. The Biden administration […]