TAIPEI: BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei’s top diplomat in Berlin said today, detailing how the highly politicised agreement came apart. Taiwan had tried for months to get the vaccine from the German […]
Year: 2021
2008 Beijing Olympics middleweight boxing champion James DeGale has appealed for help after his gold medal and MBE were stolen from his parents’ house. REUTERS: 2008 Beijing Olympics middleweight boxing champion James DeGale has appealed for help after his gold medal and MBE were stolen from his parents’ house. The […]
LONDON: Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka now has her own line of Barbie dolls. The 23-year-old world No. 2 tennis player, who has used her position to call attention to issues of police violence and racial inequality, became a part of Mattel Inc’s push to make its iconic […]
British Formula One driver Lando Norris was mugged after attending the Euro 2020 soccer final between England and Italy at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, his McLaren team said. LONDON: British Formula One driver Lando Norris was mugged after attending the Euro 2020 soccer final between England and Italy at Wembley […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern on Monday (Jul 12) announced a hastily convened virtual meeting of APEC leaders this week to discuss the Asia-Pacific region’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact. Ardern is scheduled to host the annual 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit online in November, […]
SYDNEY: New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, reported on Monday (Jul 12) 112 locally acquired COVID-19 cases, its biggest daily rise for this year, as capital city Sydney endures a hard lockdown for the third week to contain a Delta variant outbreak. Of Monday’s cases, at least 34 spent […]
WASHINGTON: A cartridge of Nintendo’s classic video game Super Mario 64 set a world record on Monday (Jul 12), selling at auction for US$1.56 million. The sale, the first ever of a game cartridge to surpass US$1 million, came just two days after a sealed copy of The Legend of […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haitian police announced on Sunday (Jul 11) that they had arrested a Haitian national “who had political objectives” in recruiting the gunmen who assassinated President Jovenel Moise last week. “This is an individual who entered Haiti on a private plane with political objectives,” said Leon Charles, head of […]
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Sunday (Jul 11) upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the flashpoint region would draw a US response under a mutual defence treaty. […]
SURFSIDE, Florida: Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida said on Sunday (Jul 11) they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 90 deaths have now […]