TAIPEI: Taiwan sighted two Russian frigates sailing off its eastern coast on Tuesday (Jun 28) and deployed surveillance ships and aircraft to monitor their movements, the island’s Ministry of National Defence said. The Russian warships were “detected sailing from south to north in the waters off our eastern coast” as […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (Jun 27) imposed sanctions aimed at disrupting gold mining activities that fund the Wagner Group in Africa, vowing to hold the mercenaries accountable for abuses days after they staged a mutiny in Russia. The measures against the Wagner Group had been previously planned but […]
MANCHESTER: Manchester City have signed Chelsea’s Croatia midfielder Mateo Kovacic on a four-year deal, the treble winners said yesterday. No financial details were disclosed but British media reported that City paid Chelsea £25 million (RM148.7 million) plus five million in add-ons for the midfielder. “This is a brilliant move for […]
HONG KONG: Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defence dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted talks with China’s […]
Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday (Jun 26). The four Florida cases, along with one in Texas, […]
SYDNEY : If Eddie Jones was looking for winners when he started thinking about his Wallabies squad for the World Cup, the call to leviathan lock Will Skelton would have been one of the first he made. The hulking forward won the Super Rugby title in 2014 with the New […]
NEW DELHI: Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it will take its investments to $26 billion in India by 2030, adding $6.5 billion in new planned investments in an announcement made after CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United States. Though Jassy gave no breakdown, the announcement […]
OTTAWA: Canadian government regulators yesterday opened a safety investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard during a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic. A debris field from the submersible Titan was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic on […]
TOKYO : Japanese online financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc said on Saturday it now has 53.74 per cent shares of midsize lender SBI Shinsei Bank from 50.04 per cent after a tender offer. The completion of the tender offer through Friday is setting up grounds for expected delisting of Shinsei […]
SEOUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called key ally South Korea to discuss results of his visit to China this month, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. Blinken told South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin he had an honest, practical and constructive dialogue with the Chinese side, […]