World
Syria on Saturday hailed the formal lifting of sanctions by the United States as a "positive step" that will help its post-war recovery."The Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the decision from the American government to lift the sanctions imposed on Syria and its people for long years,&qu...
President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday to boost nuclear energy in the United States, including by rolling back regulatory processes on a still divisive technology."We're signing tremendous executive orders today that really will make us the real power in this indu...
Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel approaches in waters some 16 nautical miles (29 kilometers) off west Aceh on 21 March 2024. Photo: AFPThe United Nations said Friday it feared that 427 Rohingyas, Myanma...
The United Arab Emirates registered a sizzling 50.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, the highest on record for May, following weeks of sweltering temperatures in the desert nation acutely vulnerable to climate change.Worshippers at Friday prayers reported feeling faint and some residents appeared unsteady...
Sports,Cricket
West Indies all-rounder Matthew Forde equalled AB de Villiers's record for the fastest one-day international half-century before Friday's match against Ireland in Dublin was abandoned due to rain.Forde reached 50 in just 16 deliveries -- matching the mark set by South Africa's De Villier...
Business & Commerce
Japan's tariffs envoy headed to the United States on Friday for a third round of talks, saying he will again "strongly demand a review" of the measures imposed by President Donald Trump's administration.Japan, a key US ally and its biggest investor, is subject to the same 10 percen...
The United States has taken aim at China's Huawei over the cutting-edge chips powering artificial intelligence (AI), part of a shifting technology dispute between the two largest economies.AFP looks at how the US-China chip war is evolving under US President Donald Trump:- Focus back on China -A...
A French court is to give a verdict on Friday in the trial of 10 people accused of robbing reality TV star Kim Kardashian of some $10 million worth of jewellery in Paris.Nine men and one woman have been standing trial since April, with prosecutors seeking the toughest jail terms of 10 years for the ...
US First Lady Melania Trump warned recently of the danger of AI deepfakes. Now she is releasing an audiobook narrated by an artificial intelligence-generated version of her own voice. The 55-year-old wife of President Donald Trump announced the release of the seven-hour recording -- which retails fo...
Japanese inflation data released Friday showed that rice prices last month were a whopping 98 percent higher than a year earlier.AFP looks at the factors behind the sharp increase, which started several months ago, and how it has become a major headache for the government of Prime Minister Shigeru I...
Sri Lanka’s former skipper Angelo Mathews said on Friday he will retire from Test cricket after playing in the first match against Bangladesh next month but will continue white-ball cricket.The 37-year-old veteran will leave the longest format of the game after a Test career of 16 years, which...
Sports,Football
Paris Saint-Germain step up their preparations for the Champions League final against Inter Milan as Luis Enrique's side take on rank outsiders Reims in Saturday's French Cup final, a showpiece occasion which is not the priority for either participant.Winning European club football's big...
World,Back Page
UK farmers are praying for rain as Britain suffers its driest spring in well over a century, which has left the soil parched and crops stunted from lack of water.At his 400-hectare (988-acre) farm near the eastern town of Peterborough, Luke Abblitt sadly surveyed his fields of thirsty sugar beets an...
Rising floodwaters stranded more than 50,000 people in eastern Australia on Thursday, as torrential rain pummelled water-logged towns for a second day and engorged rivers swallowed roads, leavingtwo dead.Police have pulled two bodies from floodwaters on the Mid North Coast, a river-braided region of...
World,Front Page
The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning on Thursday for 14 neighbourhoods of northern Gaza, as it pressed a renewed offensive that has drawn international condemnation.The warning came hours after the United Nations said it had collected and begun distributing around 90 truckloads of aid in Ga...
Business activity in the eurozone contracted for the first time in five months in May, weighed down by weakness in the services sector, a closely watched survey showed Thursday.The HCOB Flash Eurozone purchasing managers' index (PMI) published by S&P Global registered a figure of 49.5 compar...
A major accident occurred at a launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the mishap was a "criminal act".At a ceremony to launch a new 5,000-ton destroyer in the eastern port city of Chongjin on Wednesday "a s...
Iran and the United States will hold the next round of talks on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme in Rome later this week, Tehran and mediator Oman said Wednesday.The arch-foes have held four rounds of nuclear talks since April 12, the highest-level contact between them since US President...
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rattled the Greek islands of Crete and Santorini on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, with no major damage immediately reported.The strong quake struck 82 kilometres (51 miles) northeast of Crete's capital Heraklion at 0319 GMT at a depth of 68 kilometres (42 mi...
A team of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day.The jumbo effort by staff at the Karachi Safari Park involves administering the tablets -- the same as those used to treat TB...
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