HONG KONG: Prominent democracy dissident Joshua Wong announced he and two other leading activists will plead guilty today at the opening of a trial over their involvement in last year’s protests, adding he expects to be jailed. Hong Kong was convulsed by seven straight months of huge and often violent […]
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SEOUL: South Korea reported another daily rise of more than 200 new coronavirus cases today, a day after it tightened social distancing rules as it battles a third wave of infection. The daily tally of 271 new cases fell from 330 reported yesterday after hovering above 300 for five straight […]
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden will name his first cabinet picks tomorrow, his chief of staff said, even as Donald Trump continues to evoke unsubstantiated fraud despite growing dissent from within his own party. Biden has continued his preparations to assume the presidency on January 20 regardless of Trump’s moves […]
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool were not derailed by an injury crisis as Jurgen Klopp’s men produced a dominant display to beat Leicester 3-0 and move level on points with Premier League leaders Tottenham on Sunday (Nov 22). Klopp was missing seven first-team regulars through injury and top scorer Mohamed Salah due to […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s top military official said today the country’s defence force must ‘own’ a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again. The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan […]
WASHINGTON: A COVID-19 antibody therapy used to treat President Donald Trump was approved by the US drug regulator on Saturday (Nov 21) for people who aren’t yet hospitalised by the disease but are at high risk. The green light for drugmaker Regeneron came after REGEN-COV2, a combination of two lab-made […]
DOHA (Qatar): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Afghan government and Taliban negotiators in Doha, calling for them to speed up their peace talks as Washington accelerates its military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pompeo “called for a significant reduction in violence and encouraged expedited discussions on a political roadmap and […]
WASHINGTON: A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit critical to President Donald Trump’s long-shot bid to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, calling his legal claim a “Frankenstein’s Monster.” The Trump campaign had sought to prevent state officials from certifying the results of the election […]
RIYADH: Mask-clad reporters filed into a Riyadh ballroom-turned-media centre yesterday after mandatory temperature checks, to cover physically a virtual G20 summit originally conceived as a grand coming-out party for host Saudi Arabia. The media room in the capital’s Crown Plaza hotel would have been buzzing with hundreds of international reporters […]
WASHINGTON: Twitter confirmed yesterday it will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on […]