MELBOURNE: British & Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has made three changes to the starting team that beat Australia in the first test and brought his son Owen in on the bench as the tourists look to sew up the series in Melbourne on Saturday. Irish lock Joe McCarthy injured […]
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BANGKOK: Car production in Thailand rose for a second straight month in June, up 11.98 per cent from a year earlier to 130,223 units, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Thursday. The increase followed a year-on-year rise of 10.32 per cent in May. Thailand is Southeast Asia’s biggest auto […]
HONG KONG: Asian markets extended the week’s gains Thursday (Jul 24) on optimism other countries will follow up Japan’s US trade deal with ones of their own, with speculation building that the European Union is on course. Investors have been on a roll in recent weeks on bets that governments […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said yesterday the United States would supply weapons to Ukraine via Nato and that he would make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday. In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the lack of progress towards ending the war […]
NEW YORK: Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of US pro-Palestinian campus protests, sued the Trump administration yesterday for US$20 million (RM85 million) over his arrest and detention by immigration agents. Khalil, a legal permanent resident in the United States who is married to a US citizen and […]
Apple is in talks to acquire the U.S. rights to screen Formula 1 when the broadcast contract becomes available next year, Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
New Black Caps coach Rob Walter says Kane Williamson still wants to represent New Zealand in international cricket despite opting out of the upcoming tour of Zimbabwe. The 34-year-old master batsman turned down a central contract with New Zealand Cricket for this season, enabling him to pick and choose his […]
CASABLANCA: Lhoussaine Youabd knows nearly all the languages spoken in Morocco, a useful skill in his role warning the population of growing climate-related risks in the country braving increasingly common heatwaves. “Every time a weather alert is issued, I go on the media to warn Moroccans,” Youabd, 52, a meteorological […]
WASHINGTON: The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday (Jul 8) cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy. Tuesday’s ruling stemmed […]
WASHINGTON: When Donald Trump said on Thursday he’d give himself two weeks to decide on bombing Iran, critics wrote it off as the US president using a familiar timeframe to put off difficult decisions. The next evening he left the White House for a fundraising dinner at his New Jersey […]