MADRID: Spain’s World Cup-winning captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement from the professional game on Tuesday (Aug 4), ending a career that spanned over two decades in which he captured the game’s biggest prizes. The former Real Madrid skipper had called time on his five-year spell with Portuguese […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation today urged Russia to follow the established guidelines for producing safe and effective vaccines after Moscow announced plans to start swiftly producing Covid-19 jabs. Russia said yesterday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and turn out “several million” doses […]
Twenty-nine new deaths were reported over the same period, bringing the country’s total toll to 30,294. PARIS: France could “at any moment” lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government’s Covid-19 scientific council warned today as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since […]
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Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if an American firm buys it. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s boss. He also […]
PARIS: Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will miss his second straight race after he was ruled out of Sunday’s Czech Grand Prix following another operation on his fractured right arm, his team said Tuesday. “After undergoing a second operation on his injured right arm, Marc Marquez and HRC have […]
President Ashraf Ghani’s government has released all but 400, saying their crimes were too grave. KABUL: Afghanistan will convene a grand assembly of elders, known as the loya jirga, in Kabul on Friday to decide the fate of hundreds of prisoners the Taliban insist should be released before entering […]
OAKLAND, California: Alphabet’s Google Cloud unit is poised for a surge in fourth-quarter sales from US retailers, as they brace for record online shopping during the holidays because of COVID-19 lockdowns. Cloud technology, used to host websites and store data, is a key part of many retailers’ e-commerce operations. As […]
Rupert Young, the twin brother of UK singer and Pop Idol winner Will, has died at the age of 41. A spokesperson for the singer confirmed the death and requested privacy for the star and his family “during this very difficult and sad time”. The singer had spoken in the […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia recorded 1,922 new coronavirus infections today, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 115,056, official data by the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. The data also showed there were 86 additional deaths, taking the overall number of fatalities to 5,388.