SINGAPORE: Oil slipped in early Asian trade on Monday (Jul 13) as traders eyed an OPEC technical meeting this week which is expected to recommend an easing in supply cuts that have been propping up crude prices. Brent crude fell 27 cents to US$42.97 a barrel by 0114 GMT while […]
Month: July 2020
SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state reported 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday (Jul 13), with a growing cluster at a pub used by freight drivers travelling the country adding to fears of a second national wave of the virus. The new cases in New South Wales come after neighbouring […]
SKOPJE, North Macedonia: Small and landlocked North Macedonia, which votes Wednesday in a parliamentary election, made headlines when it changed its name to end a dispute with Greece last year. As the country prepares for the poll, here are five things to know about the Balkan state that emerged from […]
SOFIA: Thousands of Bulgarians gathered for a fourth day on Sunday (Jul 12) in Sofia and other cities to protest against corruption and demand the resignation of the conservative government. Over 3,000 protesters shouted “Mafia” and “Resign” outside the government headquarters in Sofia and marched to parliament. The protests in […]
LA PAZ: Bolivia’s economy minister said on Sunday (Jul 12) that he tested positive for COVID-19, making him the fourth Cabinet member with the virus, in addition to the country’s interim president who is in quarantine. Economy Minister Oscar Ortiz joins the ranks of the ministers of health and mining, […]
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority on Sunday (Jul 12) imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising COVID-19 numbers. “Travel will be prohibited daily from 8pm to 6am in all governorates,” as well as from Thursday evening […]
SHANGHAI: China will show “zero tolerance” towards securities and accounting fraud and will step up a crackdown on major capital-markets crimes, financial regulators said after a meeting of the Financial Stability Development Committee. The meeting on Sunday (Jul 12) was chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, the Cabinet-equivalent State Council […]
SYDNEY: An Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting in 2019 has decided to represent himself a month ahead of the sentencing hearing, the court said on Monday (Jul 13). Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty earlier this year to 51 charges of […]
SAN DIEGO: Flames raged for hours on Sunday (Jul 12) aboard a US warship docked at Naval Base San Diego, sending 21 people to the hospital with minor injuries and prompting a relocation of two other Navy vessels moored nearby, military and local fire officials said. The San Diego Fire-Rescue […]
LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday (Jul 13). The British charity cited UNESCO data showing that in April, 1.6 billion young people […]