LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and bereaved families on Tuesday led calls for “top to bottom” reform of London’s Metropolitan Police, after a review found the UK’s largest crime-fighting force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic. The report, written by government official Louise Casey, was commissioned after the kidnap, […]
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MOSCOW: The leaders of China and Russia hailed a “new era” in their relationship on Tuesday, putting on a united front in Moscow as Vladimir Putin accused the West of rejecting Beijing’s proposals to end the Ukraine conflict. The nations, eager to curb Western power, expressed concerns about Nato expansion […]
PARIS: The FIA said yesterday it intends to “address” the problems at last weekend’s Saudi Arabia Grand Prix where Fernando Alonso was handed a punishment at the end of the race that was later overturned. The Spaniard crossed the line third in his Aston Martin on Sunday but was then […]
China is facilitating easier access to subsidies and more control over state-backed research for a handful of its chip companies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Chipmakers such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), Hua Hong Semiconductor and Huawei, as well as equipment suppliers like Naura and Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc […]
An explosion in the north of annexed Crimea has destroyed Russian missiles being transported by rail, Ukraine’s defence ministry said. The Russian-installed head of the city of Dzhankoi said the area had been attacked by drones. Ukraine announced the explosions but, as is normal, did not explicitly say it was […]
JEDDAH: George Russell offered Fernando Alonso a word of sympathy but added that he was glad to take home the third-place “silverware” yesterday after the Spaniard’s post-race penalty at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Mercedes’ Russell finished fourth on the track but moved up a place when Aston Martin’s 41-year-old […]
WARSAW: Ukraine awaits President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kremlin this week with apprehension, fearing that China may ultimately decide to supply its strategic ally with arms, influencing the outcome of the war. Beijing seeks to depict itself as a neutral party to the conflict, neither condemning nor explicitly supporting […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s deputy central bank governor said on Monday (Mar 20) that raising interest rates may help curb inflation expectations, although also noting an aversion to raising rates during an export downturn. The current wave of inflation is not a short-term phenomenon and has fanned expectations for continued high inflation, […]
Huawei Technologies has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by United States trade sanctions, the Chinese tech giant’s founder said, according to a speech transcript posted on Friday (Mar 17) by a Chinese university. According to the transcript of the February speech posted by Shanghai […]
World number two Aryna Sabalenka said the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) was doing a good job of supporting players from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus amid tensions in the locker room following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year. Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko withdrew from her match with Belarusian Sabalenka at Indian Wells […]