MILAN: American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates said they believed they had delivered an Olympic gold-medal performance on Wednesday despite having to settle for silver behind France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. Chock and Bates entered the decisive free dance in a virtual tie for the lead […]
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TOKYO: Japan has not eased its vigilance over exchange-rate movements, its top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Thursday, issuing a fresh warning against currency volatility after the yen surged against the dollar. “There has been various speculation on whether we conducted rate checks after the release of U.S. employment […]
US lawmakers have said that redactions in the Epstein material released by the Justice Department appear to go beyond the exemptions allowed under a law passed last year.\ WASHINGTON: A Republican US lawmaker on Wednesday (Feb 11) accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of concealing the names of powerful associates of […]
LOS ANGELES: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Wednesday (Feb 11) rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in a landmark California trial over whether his company knowingly hooked children on its platform for profit. Meta – the parent company of Instagram and […]
Wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been ruled out of England’s Six Nations opener against Wales at Twickenham after pulling up with a leg injury in training, the Rugby Football Union said on Friday. The 23-year-old Exeter Chiefs player, who started all four of England’s autumn tests, was injured in training on […]
Many Palestinians say the ceasefire, which went into effect nearly four months ago, has brought little improvement to their daily lives. TEL AVIV: The second phase of United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan was launched about two weeks ago, with a new “Board of Peace” established to oversee […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Thursday (Jan 29) the US was decertifying Bombardier Global Express business jets and threatened 50 per cent import tariffs on other aircraft made in Canada until the country’s regulator certified a number of planes produced by US rival Gulfstream. “If, for any reason, this […]
U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was arrested on Thursday in Orange County, Florida and charged with dangerous excessive speeding, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The Olympic gold medalist was pulled over by a traffic enforcement officer while traveling at 104 mph (167 kph) and “dangerously tailgating and traveling across […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province near a fog-covered mountain, but were still searching for the 11 people on board. The ATR 42-500 turboprop owned by aviation group Indonesia Air Transport lost contact […]
CAGLIARI, Italy: Juventus’ Serie A title ambitions are all but over after they suffered a 1-0 defeat at Cagliari on Saturday, in a game where the visitors were unable to make their domination of possession count. Juventus sit fifth in the standings on 39 points, 10 behind leaders Inter Milan […]