WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s administration has for the first time approved direct US military aid to Taiwan under an assistance programme aimed at foreign governments, officials said on Wednesday (Aug 30), as worries grow over China. The State Department informed Congress on Tuesday of the US$80 million package, which is […]
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BRASILIA: Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards […]
NEW DELHI: India issued a “strong protest” to China yesterday after a Beijing map claimed land that New Delhi says is theirs, including territory close to where the neighbours battled in 2020. “We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the so-called 2023 […]
WASHINGTON: A federal judge is expected to set a date today for what could be one of the most momentous trials in American history: the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith has asked for the trial of the 45th US president — who faces […]
SHANGHAI : China’s securities regulator approved the launch of 37 retail funds over the weekend, part of government efforts to revive a stock market struggling for lift-off in an ailing economy. The move comes on top of a slew of measures to shore up the market, including a stamp duty […]
All-rounder Jimmy Neesham will skip New Zealand’s Twenty20 series against England to return home for the birth of his first child, the team said on Monday. Neesham had been scheduled to stay on in Britain after taking part in The Hundred for the four-match series, which begins on Wednesday in […]
HAY RIVER: Wildfires in Canada’s Northwest Territories yesterday forced the evacuation of the entire town of Hay River, a community of about 4,000 people on the Great Slave Lake, authorities said. The government of the Northwest Territories ordered everyone in town, including essential workers, to go to the Hay River […]
KYIV: Russia is regrouping in the Moscow-controlled eastern part of Ukraine in order to resume an offensive, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian military’s ground forces, said yesterday. “After a month of fierce fighting and significant losses in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, the enemy is regrouping its forces […]
Some claim they rarely cry; others say the slightest breeze opens the floodgates. But what are tears made of? They rise up in our eyes when we’re mourning the loss of a loved one, getting the “feels” from a touching scene in a rom-com or simply chopping onions for dinner: […]
Bronny James, the teenage son of NBA great LeBron James, is expected to return to basketball “in the very near future” after he suffered a cardiac arrest last month, ESPN reported on Friday, citing a statement from a family spokesperson. The 18-year-old went into cardiac arrest on July 24 while […]