Sports,Cricket
Pat Cummins ruled out the prospect of Australia underperforming against Scotland on Sunday in a bid to oust rivals England from the Twenty20 World Cup, saying it would be against the "spirit of cricket."Bowling spearhead Josh Hazlewood caused controversy this week when he said it would be ...
South Africa survived a major scare from Nepal in scrambling a nerve-jangling one-run victory in their final Group D match of the T20 World Cup at the Arnos Vale Stadium in St Vincent on Friday.Needing eight runs off the final over in pursuit of a modest target of 116 for a stunning upset win, the N...
Sports,Football
Germany thrashed 10-man Scotland 5-1 as the Euro 2024 hosts kicked off the tournament in style in Munich on Friday, the start of a journey they hope culminates in a record fourth continental title.Florian Wirtz struck the opening goal 10 minutes in and Jamal Musiala soon doubled Germany's lead w...
World
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home.Wednesday's dawn blaze quickly engulfed a housing block home to some of the many foreign labourers servicing the oil-rich gu...
Iran is further expanding its nuclear capacities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday, one week after the agency's board of governors passed a resolution criticising Tehran's lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.The IAEA informed its members that Tehran told the ...
Thousands of Brazilians on Thursday rallied against a bill under debate in Congress that would equate abortion with homicide and impose sentences of up to 20 years for terminating a pregnancy after 22 weeks, even in cases of rape.Powerful conservative lawmakers sent the bill straight to the Chamber ...
Kyiv and Moscow staged dozens of drone and missile attacks overnight, officials said Friday, leaving several wounded in Ukraine and damaging a fuel reservoir site in a Russian border region.The two sides have stepped up cross-border aerial assaults in recent weeks, with Kyiv targeting Russian energy...
Six people were killed after heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides in a remote corner of India's northeast, officials told AFP Friday.Another five people were missing around the affected area in Sikkim, a state in the Himalayan foothills bordering China and popular with Indian tourist...
Heavy rains battered south and central Chile on Thursday, killing one person and causing damage to hundreds of homes as authorities declared a state of catastrophe in five regions of the South American country.A person died in the southern city of Linares when a street lamp post fell after hours-lon...
World,Back Page
More than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Makkah Friday for the start of a hajj pilgrimage held against the grim backdrop of the Gaza war and in exhausting summer heat.Crowds of robed worshippers will circle the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Makkah’s Grand Mosque, with many expressing ...
South Africa's newly-elected parliament meets Friday and is expected to re-elect President Cyril Ramaphosa to form an unprecedented coalition government after his ruling ANC cobbled together a coalition deal.The African National Congress leader had called for a government of national unity after...
G7 leaders on Thursday called on Palestinian militant group Hamas to accept a roadmap towards a ceasefire in Gaza announced by US President Joe Biden in May.The UN Security Council had supported the plan and “now it is important that everyone implements it,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...
Israeli helicopters struck Rafah on Thursday, residents said, with militants reporting street battles in the southern Gazan city as US President Joe Biden called Hamas the “biggest hang-up” to another truce.Tensions were also soaring on Israel’s northern border, with more attacks b...
Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman dismissed on Friday a US-Ukraine security deal announced during the G7 summit as “just pieces of paper”.Maria Zakharova was also quoted by Russian news agencies as saying: “These agreements are about nothing. They do not have legal force....
Afghanistan underlined their growing status as the dark horses of the 2024 T20 World Cup with a seven-wicket victory over Papua New Guinea on Thursday to advance to the Super Eight phase of the competition and send New Zealand crashing out.Fazalhaq Farooqi added another three victims to his tourname...
Business & Commerce
The Bank of Japan on Friday said it would reduce its vast hoard of government bonds as it cautiously steps away from its long-running ultra-loose monetary policy.The central bank kept interest rates unchanged after a two-day meeting but said it would "reduce its purchase amount of JGBs (Japanes...
The IMF executive board voted Thursday to approve a payout of almost $800 million for Argentina as it continues a program of drastic economic reforms under its libertarian president, Javier Milei.A self-declared "anarcho-capitalist," Milei has vowed to halt Argentina's economic decline...
A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world".The United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR said forced displacement globall...
Turkey and the United States have signed a contract for the sale of F-16 warplanes after Washington greenlighted the $23 billion deal following months of negotiations, Turkish defence ministry sources said Thursday. "The contract was signed and delegations from both sides are negotiating t...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce up to £242 million in fresh assistance for Ukraine at the G7 summit in Italy set to open on Thursday, his office said.Ukraine is expected to be top of the agenda at the gathering in Puglia, where President Volodymyr Zelensky will join G7 leaders...
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