TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Friday (Feb 27) that she opposes changing the imperial family’s male succession rules. The comments are her clearest on the issue – the subject of increasing debate as a succession crisis looms – since her party’s landslide election victory this month. […]
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“We are now in a world where international relations are no longer driven primarily by rules or by attempts to achieve consensus,” the Foreign Affairs Minister says. SINGAPORE: Singapore will strengthen partnerships with middle powers and regional blocs as it navigates a “geostrategic tectonic plate rupture”, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian […]
The service, developed in partnership with StarHub, will be available for the 2026-27 Premier League season The world’s most popular club football competition, the English Premier League, is set to launch its own direct-to-consumer streaming service in Singapore this year, with plans for potential expansion to other countries, the Financial […]
LONDON: An AI productivity boom, if it materialises, may help buy major economies more time to clean up their strained public finances, economists say, although it won’t do the heavy lifting. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Debt is above 100 per cent of output across most rich economies and set […]
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 […]
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 […]