Sports,Football
Iran has booked the final ticket to the women's Asian Cup, beating Jordan 2-1 with the cast now set for the 2026 tournament in Australia.Marziyeh Jafari's side defied the odds with victory in Amman on Saturday to ensure they will be at the event in Perth, Gold Coast and Sydney from March 1-2...
Gritty Germany reached the Women's Euro 2025 semi-finals on Saturday after prevailing 6-5 in a penalty shootout against France after playing with 10 women for almost all of a gruelling match which finished 1-1 after extra time.Ann-Katrin Berger was the hero by saving Amel Majri and Alice Sombath...
Business & Commerce
The digital travel permit for foreigners to enter the European Union should cost 20 euros ($23), almost triple the original planned fee, under a proposal published Friday.The adjustment to the yet-to-be implemented ETIAS scheme for visa-exempt nationals comes as the European Commission seeks to boos...
European and Asian stocks markets closed out the week broadly higher Friday following Wall Street's latest record highs sparked by healthy US retail data and upbeat earnings.The readings helped divert attention away from Donald Trump's tariffs saga, with dozens of countries yet to cut deals ...
World
Three people died Friday in an explosion at a police training facility in Los Angeles, in what one local official called an accident."Tragically, they were three sworn members who were fatally killed," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said."No other department members were injur...
Canada's wildfires have burned more than 13.6 million acres (5.5 million hectares) this year, an area roughly the size of Croatia, officials said Friday as the country endures one of its most destructive fire seasons.In 2023, Canada's worst-ever fire season, 42.9 million acres of land were s...
Singapore announced it was battling a "serious" cyberattack against its critical infrastructure, attributing the hack to an espionage group that experts have linked to China.The attack, a kind of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), poses a serious danger to the city-state, Coordinating Minis...
Cuba scrapped the maximum age limit of 60 for its presidential candidates as part of a constitutional reform approved Friday by parliament.The communist-ruled island's restriction of two five-year presidential terms and minimum age of 35 for candidates were left unchanged.The measure, approved b...
Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.Soon after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of con...
Spain reached the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Friday after battling past Switzerland 2-0 as the world champions continued their bid for a first-ever European crown.Athenea del Castillo and Claudia Pina scored the goals in the second half in Bern to give La Roja deserved passage to the la...
National,Front Page
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the US state of Alaska on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning that was later withdrawn, the US Geological Survey said.The earthquake took place at approximately 12:37 local time (2037 GMT), with its epicenter located about 54 miles (87 kilometer...
World,Back Page
More than 350 people have been killed since the weekend in violent clashes in Syria's southern Sweida province, a war monitor said Thursday, updating an earlier toll.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since clashes erupted on Sunday, 79 Druze fighters were killed along with 55 civ...
A crush at an aid centre in southern Gaza killed at least 20 people on Wednesday, with the site's operator blaming "Hamas operatives" within the crowd and the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency attributing the panic to Israeli gunfire.It was the first time that the Gaza H...
National,Back Page
Heavy rains have been linked to 54 deaths in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the toll to about 180 since the arrival of the monsoon in late June, the government's disaster agency said on Thursday.Torrential rain has poured almost without pause across parts of Punjab province since Wednesda...
Japanese auto exports to the United States tumbled more than a quarter in June, official data showed Thursday, amid growing concern at the failure of Tokyo to strike a deal to avoid the worst of Donald Trump's tariffs.Roughly eight percent of jobs are tied to the auto industry in Japan, which is...
The 500,000-strong Haitian community in the United States is in a state of panic as the Trump administration pushes to deport those who fled here after a huge 2010 earthquake."I came here seeking refuge, and now they want to kick me out," said Clarens, who obtained temporary protected stat...
Over 50 people were killed in a fire that swept through a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, state media said Thursday."The number of victims has reached about 50 people, martyrs and injured, in the tragic fire at a major shopping centre," Wasit province governor Mohammed al-M...
Bulgarian villager Rumyana Tsoneva keeps opening the tap in her yard in Gorna Studena near the Danube -- and keeps finding it dry.When water finally comes, it lasts only a few hours, and the retired agricultural expert has to choose between filling cans, running the washing machine or taking a showe...
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Thursday that those behind violence against the Druze minority would be held accountable after deadly clashes in their southern heartland, saying security responsibility would be returned to local authorities."We are keen on holding accountabl...
The UN's Syria envoy expressed hope Wednesday for genuine de-escalation in the violence-hit Druze-majority city of Sweida as he voiced alarm at reports of corpses being desecrated and mutilated.Syria said a new ceasefire would halt to military operations, though a truce announced on Tuesday appe...
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