World
Campaigning kicked off Tuesday in Japan for an October 27 election in which new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is seeking to retain his long-ruling party's majority.Loudspeaker trucks began circulating and candidates handed out fliers ahead of the vote. Key issues include price rises, regional se...
Sports,Football
England eased to a 3-1 victory away to Finland in the Nations League on Sunday, while Austria put five past Erling Haaland's Norway.Jack Grealish put England ahead in the first half, then Trent Alexander-Arnold curled in a superb free-kick and Declan Rice sealed the win inside the final 20 minut...
Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.It comes after the Taliban government recently announced legislation formalising their strict interp...
World,Front Page
The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, the three have d...
Business
The European Central Bank is expected to lower interest rates again this week as anxiety about inflation in the eurozone fades and concerns over sluggish growth mount.Inflation fell to 1.8 percent across the 20 members of the euro area in September, the first time it has been below the ECB's tar...
World,Back Page
Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris is in "excellent health" and fit for the presidency, according to a medical report published by the White House Saturday, as she challenged rival Donald Trump to publish his own health records."Vice President Harris remains in excellent h...
Hundreds of women protested in Turkish cities against the murder of women in the latest rallies following a double slaying in Istanbul.Hundreds in Istanbul chanted slogans denouncing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted AKP party, an AFP correspondent reported."You are a govern...
The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards on Saturday honoured reporters from Agence France-Presse, the BBC and others documenting conflict and strife around the world.AFP photographer Mahmud Hams won the top prize for photos, including his harrowing image of a woman crying during a sear...
Cristiano Ronaldo scored as Portugal beat Poland 3-1 for their third straight Nations League win on Saturday, while European champions Spain put an end to Denmark's perfect start in the competition.Bernardo Silva volleyed Portugal ahead in the 26th minute in Warsaw as Bruno Fernandes cleverly no...
Boeing announced that it plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce as it projected a large third-quarter loss amid a machinist strike in the Seattle region.The aviation giant must "reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality," Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said on Friday,...
China said Saturday it will make $325 billion in fiscal support available to its economy over the next three months, offering help to bolster banks, shore up the property market and free up consumption spending in Beijing's biggest aid programme since the global financial crisis.The highly antic...
Entertainment
Sega said recently one of its most popular games, "Shinobi", will be made into a movie in a joint project with Universal Pictures, aiming to emulate the success of "Super Mario Bros".The Japanese gamemaker did not give a target date for the release but said it had "started t...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that relations with Iran were a "priority" for Moscow, after talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, saying the two countries had "very close" views of world events."Relations with Iran are a priority for us, they are deve...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his attacks on Israel as he arrived in Tirana Thursday, the first stop of a Balkans tour that will also take him to Serbia.Repeating his claim that Israel's actions in Gaza constituted "genocide", he branded it the "shame of huma...
An Israeli air strike killed at least 22 people in central Beirut as Israeli ground troops in Lebanon were accused of firing on the UN's peacekeeping headquarters, injuring two Blue Helmets.The raid on Beirut, where an AFP journalist heard several loud explosions, was the third such attack on th...
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday urged the United Nations to pass a resolution calling for an "immediate" ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.Mikati told reporters the foreign ministry would ask the UN Security Council to issue a resolution demanding ...
Shares slipped in New York and Europe Thursday as the latest US inflation report dented the odds of rapid interest rate cuts, while crude prices jumped on worries over the Middle East.All three major US Wall Street indexes finished the session modestly lower after the Dow and the S&P 500 had cha...
Less than a month out from the knife-edge US presidential election, no group of voters is attracting more attention from the campaigns than the tiny sliver of the electorate that is still undecided.While many people long ago made up their minds between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a small percent...
Major South Korean bookshops sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win.The first Asian woman to win the literary award, short story writer and novelist Han is best known overseas for &quo...
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