Business & Commerce
The pace of Japanese inflation accelerated in May partly due to higher energy bills, government data showed Friday, as analysts speculate on the timing of the Bank of Japan's next rate hike.The Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- which excludes volatile fresh food prices -- rose 2.5 percent year-on-ye...
World
Donald Trump said he wants to grant green cards to foreign graduates from US colleges, in an apparent softening of his typically hard-line view on immigration, a key election issue.The Republican candidate made the remarks in a podcast published Thursday, days after President Joe Biden announced a c...
New tensions emerged this week between President Joe Biden's administration and Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli premier's criticism of US weapons deliveries -- comments the White House described Thursday as "vexing" and "disappointing."The issue began when Netanyahu c...
American philanthropist Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, endorsed President Joe Biden on Thursday for November's US election, arguing that he is the best candidate for women."I've never endorsed a presidential candidate before. But this year's el...
Five people died and dozens were hurt when a huge wildfire swept through several villages in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey overnight, the health minister said on Friday.Hundreds of animals also perished in the blaze, local residents said. An AFP correspondent saw many of their bodies lying on t...
Sports,Football
World champions Argentina opened their bid for back-to-back Copa America titles with a 2-0 win over Canada in front of a crowd of 70,564 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Thursday.Julian Alvarez put Argentina ahead in the 49th minute but a combination of inspired goalkeeping from Canada's Max Crepeau ...
Spain qualified for the last 16 of Euro 2024 with a match to spare on Thursday after beating defending champions Italy 1-0 in a dominant display which ensured that La Roja would go through as Group B winners.Riccardo Calafiori's own goal nine minutes after half-time was the difference between th...
Worldwide foreign direct investment fell for a second consecutive year in 2023 amid a global economic slowdown, coupled with swelling trade and geopolitical tensions, the United Nations said Thursday.Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by two percent to $1.3 trillion last year, according to a fresh...
Families of Boeing 737 MAX crash victims on Wednesday asked US authorities to impose a fine of up to $24.8 billion on the aviation giant and proceed with criminal prosecution. The move comes a day after Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun acknowledged the "gravity" of the company's safety problems...
New Zealand's economy has limped out of recession, official data showed Thursday, but the country's finance minister has warned inflation still casts a "long shadow".The new economic figures were better than experts had anticipated following a gloomy 18 months that saw the economy ...
National,Back Page
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided...
World,Back Page
Ottawa on Wednesday listed Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity while calling on Canadians in the Islamic country to leave."Our government has made the decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code," Public Safety Min...
A shipwreck more than 3,000 years old with its cargo intact has been found off the northern coast of Israel, the country's antiquities authority said Thursday.The wreck and its artefacts were discovered more than a mile deep on the bed of the Mediterranean Sea by London-listed energy firm Energe...
A batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has killed at least 34 people with more than 100 others rushed to hospital, Tamil Nadu state officials told reporters Thursday.The deadly mix of locally brewed arrack drink was laced with poisonous methanol, chief minister M.K. Stalin said, the Press Trust o...
Major weapons exporter South Korea will "reconsider" a longstanding policy that bars it from supplying arms directly to Ukraine, a presidential official said Thursday, after North Korea signed a mutual defence agreement with Russia."(We are) planning to reconsider the issue of providi...
A French journalist said Thursday he had left India after more than 13 years because he was denied a work permit, a decision he called an act of "incomprehensible censorship".Critics say that media freedom in the world's most populous democracy is increasingly under attack, with journa...
Chinese coast guard sailors brandishing weapons including sticks, knives and an axe clashed with Philippine naval vessels near a strategic reef in the South China Sea, dramatic new footage released by Manila showed.The clash took place Monday as Philippine forces attempted to resupply marines statio...
American forces destroyed two sites in Yemen belonging to the Huthi rebels, the US military said Wednesday, after a series of ship attacks in recent days by the group.The Huthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in attacks they say are in solidarity with...
Japan is "seriously concerned" that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not rule out military and technical cooperation under a pact signed with North Korea on a visit to the isolated state, a government spokesman said Thursday.Putin on Wednesday inked the strategic treaty at a summit wit...
Deadly heat that blanketed the United States, Mexico and Central America recently was made 35 times more likely due to global warming, an international network of climate scientists said on Thursday.The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of scientists also said that extreme highs witnessed over t...
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