SYDNEY : National Australia Bank (NAB) said today it had temporarily closed all its branches and attached offices due to a “physical security threat”, but did not give further details. Australia’s second-biggest lender said it was working with police and is inspecting all of its branches and commercial offices to […]
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BANGKOK : Thai democracy protesters are set to return to the streets of Bangkok today a day after six of their number were shot with live rounds, as lawmakers prepared to vote on possible constitutional reforms. A day earlier, in the most violent clashes since the pro-democracy movement kicked off […]
LONDON: England boss Gareth Southgate has said his players are being pressured by their clubs to regulate their playing time with the national team to avoid the risk of injuries amid a tight schedule. With the Covid-19 pandemic tightening the season’s match schedule, player fatigue has become a major issue, […]
SYDNEY: South Australia announced a six-day lockdown of the state today to stamp out a fresh coronavirus outbreak that has now expanded to 22 cases, warning the strain of virus was highly contagious with a 24-hour infection rate. As of midnight, a series of wide-ranging mobility restrictions will be imposed […]
SEVILLE: Spain dealt Germany their worst defeat in 89 years yesterday as a stunning 6-0 victory in Seville sent them through to the Nations League semi-finals. Germany have not been beaten so heavily since losing to Austria by the same scoreline in a friendly in 1931. Spain were as sublime […]
WASHINGTON: Facebook and Twitter defended their handling of US election misinformation at a heated congressional hearing on Tuesday (Nov 17) where one key senator assailed the platforms for being the “ultimate editor” of political news. The hearing, the second in less than a month, came with social media under fire […]
PARIS: France said today it was preparing to kick off a nationwide Covid vaccination campaign in January when it hopes virus shots will be approved and available. The government is worried that millions of French people will refuse coronavirus shots, even after a vaccine was found to be nearly 95 […]
SYDNEY, Nov 17 — Australian authorities conducted mass tests today and about 4,000 people were confined to quarantine in the hope of stifling a new cluster of cases of the novel coronavirus after hopes it had been largely eradicated. The state of South Australia reimposed social distancing restrictions yesterday after […]
Here’s all you need to know about the vaccine frontrunners The global pandemic continues to break records as the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed as many as 660,905 new infections worldwide in one day (on Saturday). As per John Hopkins University, the worldwide number of infections stands at 54,299,446 while […]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said the number of people killed was likely to rise after what it called a “gruesome” attack on the passenger bus in the Benishangul-Gumuz region. Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national […]