Sports,Cricket
Phil Salt thrashed a brilliant 87 not out off just 47 balls as defending champions England romped to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in their T20 World Cup Super Eight clash on Wednesday.Salt smashed seven fours and five sixes during a swashbuckling innings at the Daren Sammy National S...
Sports,Football
World champions Argentina get an expanded Copa America under way on Friday morning against Canada with Lionel Messi looking to add a second continental title in what is almost certainly his final appearance in the tournament.World champions and defending Copa America title holders, Argentina get the...
Germany captain Ilkay Gundogan lauded forward Jamal Musiala after Wednesday's 2-0 win over Hungary, calling him "incredible" and "a joy to play with".Musiala turned in an assist from Gundogan to open the scoring in the first half and then played a key role in creating a match...
World,Back Page
Nearly 2,000 children die every day from health problems linked to air pollution, which is now the second biggest risk factor for early death worldwide, a report said Wednesday.Exposure to air pollution contributed to the deaths of 8.1 million people -- around 12 percent of all fatalities -- in 2021...
Business & Commerce
The European Union is expected on Wednesday to rebuke nearly 10 governments, including France and Italy, over their excessive spending after new budget rules entered into force this year. It comes at a particularly difficult moment for France, where both the far left and far right are piling up...
Myanmar military coup leader Min Aung Hlaing has announced plans to hold a general election in 2025 despite ongoing nationwide conflicts.General Min Aung Hlaing made the statement during a meeting with civil servants and local leaders in Meiktila Town, in Mandalay Region, on 15 June 2024.He said tha...
Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian militants rocked Gaza on Wednesday, as Israel's army warned it had readied an "offensive" against the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on the country's northern front.Witnesses and the civil defence agency in the Hamas-run G...
Tokyo stocks opened higher on Tuesday after Wall Street rallied to fresh records, fuelled by enthusiasm over artificial intelligence. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.85 percent, or 323.40 points, to 38,425.84, while the broader Topix index rose 0.70 percent, or 19.01 points, to 2,719.02.&qu...
World
President Joe Biden attempted a political high-wire act Tuesday by announcing a citizenship pathway for half a million immigrants married to US nationals, in a counterweight to his recent crackdown on illegal border crossers.The Biden administration has been struggling to address immigration, a huge...
Germany is in talks with third countries to find ways to deport criminals to Afghanistan without dealing directly with the Taliban, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Wednesday."We are working hard to ensure that we can once again deport dangerous Islamists and violent criminals to Afghanistan...
More than 880 irregular migrants crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats on Tuesday, the UK government said, the highest number in a single day so far this year.The arrivals come as political parties in Britain campaign for a general election on July 4 at which immigration is one of the major ...
A fire that tore through a huge military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more, officials said Wednesday, warning the toll could rise.The blaze, which started late on Tuesday, sent powerful blasts into the night sky and the exploding...
World,Front Page
More than 1.5 million Muslims braved extreme heat to reach Mount Arafat on Saturday for the high point of the annual hajj pilgrimage, praying for hours, especially for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza.Clad in white, worshippers began arriving at dawn for the most gruelling day of the annual rites, a...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a brief conversation with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau amid strain in bilateral ties over the case relating to the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Modi also held a separate conversation with US President Joe Bid...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected for a second term after his humbled ANC cobbled together an unprecedented coalition government.Lawmakers in Cape Town voted overwhelmingly on Friday to put Ramaphosa, 71, back in office for another five years after the May 29 general election pr...
The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a ban introduced by ex-president Donald Trump's administration on bump stocks -- devices which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like a machine gun -- is unconstitutional.The case stems from the worst mass shooting in US history, in October 2017, when ...
Ukrainian shelling on the Russian border town of Shebekino killed five people and wounded several, the governor of the region of Belgorod said on Saturday.Since Russia launched its military offensive on Ukraine in 2022, Belgorod has faced waves of attacks, which Kyiv say are retaliation for Moscow&#...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lofty ambitions for a summit in Switzerland this weekend, but on the front line and in war-fatigued Kyiv, hopes for any major breakthrough are nearly nil.The conference convening some 90 countries and global institutions is coming at a perilous moment for e...
New Chinese coast guard rules took effect Saturday, under which it can detain foreigners for trespassing in the disputed South China Sea, where eighbours and the G7 have accused Beijing of intimidation and coercion. Beijing claims almost the entirety of the South China Sea, brushing aside competing ...
England's attacking arsenal sees them start Euro 2024 as the bookmakers' favourites to end a wait since 1966 to win a major tournament, but some doubts persist over the Three Lions ahead of Sunday's opener against Serbia.Gareth Southgate's men have won just one of their last five mat...
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