World
Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, has died at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer, her husband announced Friday.Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, spent nearly two decades helping transform Goog...
President Nicolas Maduro on Friday ruled out negotiating with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado after he appeared before Venezuela's Supreme Court, asking the country's top judicial body to ratify his disputed reelection.He was responding to Machado's offer of "guarantees and i...
Authorities in Japan urged people to avoid hoarding as anxiety over a possible megaquake triggered a spike Saturday in demand for disaster kits and daily necessities.In its first such advisory, the weather agency said a huge earthquake was more likely in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 jolt in the ...
North Korea will move more than 15,000 flood victims to the capital, state media said Saturday, as leader Kim Jong Un insisted recovery efforts would be "based on self-reliance" despite offers of aid from abroad.Pyongyang last week said a record downpour in late July had killed an unspecif...
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden will next week make their first joint campaign trip since the US president's shock decision to drop out of the 2024 White House race against Donald Trump.Seeking to burnish his legacy in his final months in office and support the new Democratic ticket, Biden will appe...
India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar leaves Friday on his first trip to the neighbouring Maldives since Male expelled dozens of Indian soldiers and shifted to become closer to China.The foreign ministry said in a statement that the Indian Ocean archipelago was a key part of New Delhi...
A bus crashed through a highway bridge near Ankara early Friday, killing nine people and injuring 26, the governor of Turkey's capital region said.The accident occurred at 5:00 am (0200 GMT), the TRT public television channel said. It was travelling from Eskisehir, a city west of Ankara.Ankara r...
Donald Trump proposed three September debates against Kamala Harris Thursday as he sought to wrest back some of the attention lavished on his rival since her blockbuster entry into the US presidential election.Harris has ignited the Democratic ticket in the last 18 days, pulling in record fundraisin...
Brazil and Nicaragua expelled each-others' ambassadors on Thursday, as souring relations between the two Latin American nations deepened into a fresh diplomatic feud.A Brazilian diplomatic source told AFP the latest flareup in tensions came after Brazil's ambassador to Nicaragua skipped an o...
Iran may be rethinking launching a multi-pronged attack on Israel in response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Politico writes, citing US officials."The officials said they do anticipate some kind of Iranian response to the Haniye...
Sports
American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday.Anna Cockrell made it a U.S. 1-2 in a time of 51.87 and Dutchwoman Femke Bol, who had been expected to challenge for gold, faded in the last 50 ...
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won the Olympic men's javelin title in Paris on Thursday, his country's first individual gold at a Summer Games. Nadeem threw an Olympic record of 92.97 metres for victory, India's defending champion Neeraj Chopra taking silver with 89.45. Grenada's ...
Sports,Hockey
The Netherlands beat Germany in a shoot-out to win the men's Olympic hockey gold Thursday, breaking a 24-year drought in what they hope will be the first of a Dutch double.A tense game ended all square at 1-1, with fourth-quarter goals in quick succession from Dutch captain Thierry Brinkman and ...
Thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in several English cities on Wednesday to oppose days of far-right violence that have had UK police on high alert.Nightly riots -- during which mosques and migrant-related facilities have been attacked -- have erupted across towns and cities in...
Israel vowed to eliminate new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack, with regional tensions threatening to boil over as the Gaza war entered its 11th month on Wednesday.The naming of Sinwar to lead the Palestinian militant group came as Israel braced for potential ...
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to be the rightful winner of the country's presidential election, on Wednesday defied a Supreme Court summons over the disputed results.Election authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July 28 vote witho...
A North Korean has defected to the South across a de facto maritime border in the Yellow Sea, Seoul's military said Thursday.Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s.The latest defection comes as relations between the two Kor...
Sharon van Rouwendaal from the Netherlands made a late surge to win gold in the women's 10k marathon swimming at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.Van Rouwendaal won with a time of 2hr 03min 34.2sec, with Australian Moesha Johnson taking silver 5.5 seconds behind and Italy's Ginevra Taddeucci c...
Business & Commerce
Germany industrial giant Siemens said Thursday its profits rose sharply in the third quarter due to a strong performance from its software and infrastructure businesses, and confirmed its full-year outlook.From April to June, net profit came in at 1.98 billion euros ($2.2 billion) -- up about 50 per...
Thousands of riot police stood ready Wednesday as Britain remained on alert for disturbances during far-right protests across the country.Nightly riots, during which mosques and migrant targets have been attacked, erupted after three children were murdered on July 29.Police said they were investigat...
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