Business & Commerce
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin said it had lost bitcoin worth around $300 million in what it described as "an unauthorised leak" from its digital wallet."We are still investigating details of the damages," it said in a statement after detecting the "unauthorised leak&q...
World,Back Page
Iraqi authorities have executed eight people convicted of “terrorism” over links to the Islamic State group, a security source in the country’s southern Dhi Qar province said Friday.The source told AFP that eight Iraqis “convicted of terrorism and of being members of the Isla...
Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former US president ever convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty on all charges in his hush money case, months before an election that could see him yet return to the White House.The jury found him guilty on each of the 34 counts of falsi...
Humanity is in a race against time to harness the colossal emerging power of artificial intelligence for the good of all, while averting dire risks, a top UN official said Thursday.“We’ve let the genie out of the bottle,” said Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the United Nations’...
Sports,Football
Borussia Dortmund face the acid test after a fairytale run to Saturday's Champions League final as a star-studded Real Madrid roll into Wembley expecting to be crowned European champions for a 15th time.No club can come close to the Spanish giants' success in the competition and they are str...
World
China said Friday it would be "difficult" for it to take part in a planned conference on the war in Ukraine next month if Russia did not attend.While China says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict, it has been criticised for refusing to condemn Moscow for its offensive.Ukraine is...
Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday, after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt.Israel launched its military incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the safety of ...
The United Nations refugee chief criticized the Security Council on Thursday over the growing number of people displaced by war and persecution, saying 114 million people had fled their homes worldwide."Next month, we will update that figure. It will be higher," UN High Commissioner for Re...
Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine, a new Pentagon report says, citing debris analysis to confirm long-standing allegations that Pyongyang has been sending weapons to Moscow.The report by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency used open-source imagery to confirm that ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he had arrived in Sweden to appeal to his country's allies in northern Europe to supply his struggling military with more weapons.Zelensky has been touring European capitals in recent days to appeal for more military aid for the Ukrainian arm...
Russian forces are advancing on all fronts in Ukraine and have seized 880 square kilometres (340 square miles) of territory this year alone, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said on Friday.If confirmed, Russia would have made more gains in the past five months than in the whole of 2023, when the fro...
Oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Thursday it plans to sell 1.545 billion shares worth more than $10 billion in one of the biggest such offerings in recent years.In a statement posted to the Saudi stock exchange, Aramco announced a "secondary public offering of 1.545 billion shares", with an ...
Asian markets rose Friday after falling for much of the week, with below-forecast US data injecting some fresh life into hopes the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.The readings came ahead of the release of the central bank's favoured gauge of inflation later in the day, which co...
Judges in Italy are up in arms against a judicial overhaul adopted by the hard-right government of Giorgia Meloni, some calling it a "damaging" politically motivated move to weaken prosecutors.Adopted by the government's council of ministers Wednesday, less than two weeks before Europe...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not displaced from their war-ravaged territory."I... call on the international community to immediately provide for long-term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza St...
Iran on Thursday began the formal registration of presidential candidates ahead of a snap vote next month to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash."Candidate registration for the 14th presidential elections began at 8 am (0430 GMT)... at the interior ministry," the ...
Jurors return Thursday to a second day of deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal trial, leaving the Republican presidential candidate and the country waiting for a decision that could upend November's election.After weeks of testimony from more than 20 witnesses on Trump's alleged frau...
Thousands took to the streets to protest New Zealand's centre-right government and its policies toward the Indigenous Maori population Thursday.Demonstrators turned out in Auckland, Wellington and other cities, accusing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's government of undermining long-standi...
Sports,Cricket
A key goal of new Twenty20 captain Mitchell Marsh is to keep Australia "nice and relaxed" as they strive for an unprecedented triple crown of titles across the game's three formats at the World Cup.The laid-back allrounder headlines an experienced and settled 15-man squad for the June ...
Olympiakos became the first Greek club ever to win a European title after defeating Fiorentina 1-0 after extra time in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday.Moroccan striker Ayoub El Kaabi scored the winning goal in the 116th minute that allowed Jose Luis Mendilibar's side to make hist...
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