SEOUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Beijing was willing to work with Pyongyang for world peace, North Korean state media said Saturday (Nov 26). The message from Xi came days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in one of its most […]
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WASHINGTON: Twitter’s ban on then President Donald Trump after the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters was a “grave mistake” that had to be corrected, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday (Nov 25), although he also stated that incitement to violence would continue to […]
MUMBAI : India’s banking regulator has declined a payment aggregator licence for the One 97 Communications Ltd unit that owns the popular Paytm brand, asking it to reapply with 120 days after meeting certain conditions. The regulator asked Paytm Payments Services Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of One 97 […]
A 19 year-old student last year accused the former member of the K-pop group EXO of date-raping her when she was 17. Wu was sentenced after being found guilty by a court in Beijing’s Chaoyang district on Friday (Nov 25). Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star Kris Wu has been jailed for 13 […]
Donald Trump on Saturday (Nov 20) said that he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favour of reinstating the former United States president, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence, in a poll organised by new owner Elon […]
SYDNEY : Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc reckons the game’s hectic schedule will force him to quit white-ball cricket at some stage to prolong his test career. The left-arm quick is among Australia’s all-format players, who headed into a three-match one-days series against England four days after the conclusion of […]
KYIV: The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow, after a series of major military victories by Kiev, are “bizarre” and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency told AFP. “When you have the initiative on the battlefield, it’s slightly bizarre to […]
WASHINGTON: Twitter’s owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not become a “hellscape,” but experts fear a staff exodus following mass layoffs may have devastated its ability to combat misinformation, impersonation and data theft. Twitter devolved into what campaigners described as a cesspit of falsehoods and hate speech after […]
Central defender Milos Degenek does not believe Australia will gain an advantage at the World Cup from having played regularly in host nation Qatar’s air-conditioned stadiums during the qualifying rounds for this month’s tournament. The Socceroos, who booked their berth with victory over Peru in a playoff held in Qatar […]
BERLIN : Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury believes China and the West will reduce their mutual dependency in the long term but there is no question of them breaking off trade ties, he told Handelsblatt. “I think a break-up of economic areas is unthinkable,” he told the business daily. “I […]