World
Fire brigades in Tuscany battled a wildfire on Wednesday (July 20) that forced hundreds to evacuate and caused gas tanks to explode, as smoke from a blaze in north-east Italy forced shipbuilder Fincantieri to shut down a 3,000-staff plant.Wildfires have broken out in several parts of Italy this week...
All Section,Entertainment & Glomour
K-Pop star J-Hope of the boy band sensation BTS will perform this month as the finale act at Chicago's annual Lollapalooza show, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major U.S. musical festival, organizers said on Tuesday.J-Hope, 28, who made his debut as a member of BTS in 2013 ...
World,Front Page
The European Union will amend its sanctions on Moscow on today (Wednesday) by allowing the unfreezing of some funds of top Russian banks that may be required to ease bottlenecks in the global trade of food and fertilisers, a draft document showed.The move comes amid criticism from African leaders ab...
Wildfires raged across the Gironde wine-growing area of south-western France on Tuesday (July 19), where a man has been taken into custody suspected of arson, authorities said.The fires, fanned by scorching heat and strong winds, have spread across 19,300 hectares in the countryside surrounding Bord...
Ankara hopes Washington will not fall for a "game" by some US lawmakers against the potential sale of F-16 jets, Turkey's defence minister said, after the House of Representatives approved a bill creating a new hurdle to any Turkish purchase.Turkey has sought to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-...
Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires.Scientists with the EU Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) warned on Tuesday (July 19) of unhealthy levels of ozone pollution across southern and western Europe ...
European Union foreign ministers sought on Monday (July 18) to show that the bloc can maintain its financial and military support for Ukraine despite the serious inflationary impact on EU economies five months after Russia's invasion.The foreign ministers are likely to approve another ...
The authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday (July 17) to control wildfires burning across thousands of hectares of land in countries including Spain, Greece and France, where thousands of people have been evacuated in soaring temperatures.In Spain, helicopters dropped water on the flame...
Business & Commerce
The Bank of Canada expects inflation to go "a little over" 8%, as soon as next week when June's data is released, and stay in that range for a few more months, Governor Tiff Macklem told a business group in a webcast transcript released late Friday.Macklem, who spoke to the Canadian Fe...
San Francisco International Airport said it resumed normal operations after evacuating the international terminal late on Friday (July 15) following a bomb threat."Police have cleared the Int’l Terminal. SFO resumes normal operations," the airport said in a tweet on Saturday.The airp...
Nine people were shot dead in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua in an attack believed to be perpetrated by armed separatists, police said on Saturday (July 16).Police in the provincial capital of Jayapura told local media the incident, the deadliest in recent years, occurred on Saturday mo...
Sports,Cricket
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Saturday that it has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to devise a way to regulate the growth of lucrative Twenty20 leagues with rising concerns about its impact on the sport's calendar.South Africa this week pulled out of a three-match bilate...
Sports,Tennis
Australia's Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt said he told Nick Kyrgios he should be proud of his runner-up finish at Wimbledon and hopes he will play for the national team.Kyrgios, who fell to Novak Djokovic in an engrossing final on Sunday, was asked by Hewitt to join the Australian squad for t...
Goldman Sachs has hired Jared Cohen, who founded technology incubator Jigsaw at Google, to co-head its newly created applied innovation unit, an internal memo showed, as the Wall Street powerhouse invests in technology expertise.Cohen, who also served as advisor to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt in t...
Sports,Football
Manchester United got their pre-season off to a flying start with a 4-0 rout of rivals Liverpool in Thailand Tuesday, giving new manager Erik ten Hag a big boost in his first match in charge.Liverpool looked jaded and on the back foot for much of the match against a United team with superior fitness...
Ten years after Paul Pogba left Manchester United to sign with Italian side Juventus on a free transfer, history repeated itself on Monday as the France midfielder bid farewell to the Premier League and returned to the Serie A club.Pogba, who left United when his contract expired last month, has sig...
The turbulent resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week will add to growing pressures on the UK economy, the world's top credit rating firms S&P Global and Moody's said.Moody's Vice President Evan Wohlman said a potentially lengthy leadership contest within the UK...
The women's European Championship got under way with pre-game fireworks for a tournament record crowd but there was little sparkle from hosts England as they laboured to a 1-0 win over Austria at Old Trafford on Wednesday.The crowd of 68,871 was the largest for a European Championship game, beat...
Sri Lanka, which has run out of dollars to purchase fuel and is printing rupees to pay local salaries, aims to stop injecting local currency to quash Asia's fastest inflation.The inflation rate is estimated to reach 60 per cent, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament Tuesday (June 5...
Fresh evacuation orders were issued for thousands of Sydney residents on Monday (July 4) after relentless rain flooded several suburbs in Australia's largest city, with officials warning of more wild weather to come.An intense low-pressure system off Australia’s east coast is forecast to b...
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