WASHINGTON: Talks between US and Britain regarding a travel corridor are increasingly unlikely to reach a conclusion by the end of July, the Financial Times reported on Monday (Jun 28), citing officials. The officials added the rise in cases of the Delta variant in Britain, the complexities of the U.S. […]
Year: 2021
SAN FRANCISCO: Instagram isn’t exactly the most convenient platform to use on a PC. And clearly the social network would like to remedy this. Some users of the platform can now publish a post directly from the web version of Instagram. A very practical feature that’s been expected for a […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan reported its first domestically transmitted case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus today, tightening controls in a southern part of the island where the cases have occurred. Taiwan is battling a cluster of domestic infections, almost all of them due to the previously globally dominant […]
SYDNEY: Sydney will enter a hard two-week lockdown on Saturday (Jun 26) night as authorities try to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant in Australia’s largest city, the state premier said. More than a million people in downtown Sydney and the city’s eastern suburbs were […]
MADRID: Portugal felt the full range of emotions during the Euro 2020 group stage and with Cristiano Ronaldo in the groove again, they can really begin to believe. After scoring three late goals to beat Hungary, Portugal were shaken by a 4-2 loss to Germany, only for a 2-2 draw […]
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is aiming for a September snap election that would capitalise on the country’s emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic, said two sources familiar with the matter. Trudeau, whose centre-left Liberals control a minority of seats in the House of Commons, had said for many months […]
Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers. SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that […]
Tom Hiddleston’s Loki made the revelation while in conversation with the female version of himself from another timeline, played by Sophia Di Martino. Loki director Kate Herron on Wednesday opened up about the surprising yet welcome revelation in the show’s third episode that the God of Mischief is bisexual. Tom […]
NSW officials have so far resisted calls for a hard lockdown although Australia has a good record of successfully suppressing past outbreaks through snap lockdowns, tough social distancing rules and swift contact tracing. Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported a double digit rise in new locally acquired […]
TOKYO: Japanese Emperor Naruhito appears “concerned” about the possibility the Olympic Games could cause the coronavirus to spread as feared by many in the public, Kyodo News quoted an official at the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) as saying. “The emperor is extremely worried about the current status of coronavirus infections,” […]