Pedestrians, some wearing protective face masks, walk along Oxford Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain, September 17, 2020. LONDON: The British government is mulling tougher restrictions in England to tackle a swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, possibly outlawing more inter-household socialising, […]
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BERLIN: Europe and the United States need to face up to a “new Cold War with China” together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany’s point man on transatlantic ties told AFP. With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government’s coordinator for […]
BRISBANE: The owner of Australia’s biggest theme park was fined A$3.6 million (RM10.6 million) today for safety failures leading to the deaths of four people on a popular water ride in 2016. Two women and two men died when their rafts collided on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld […]
Joker star Joaquin Phoenix and fiance Rooney Mara have become parents to a baby boy, their first child together. Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix and his fiancée, actor Rooney Mara, have become parents to a baby boy, their first child together. The couple has named their son after Phoenix’s late older […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan expressed satisfaction on Monday (Sep 28) and said the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported on Sunday (Sep 27), citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year […]
BEIJING: China’s capital called on importers on Monday (Sep 28) to shun frozen food from countries suffering from severe novel coronavirus outbreaks after several cases of imported seafood products testing positive for the virus. “Customs and local governments have repeatedly detected the coronavirus in imported cold chain food, proving it […]
WASHINGTON, DC: A US judge in Washington late on Sunday (Sep 27) temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple and Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download at 11.59pm on Sunday local time. US District Judge Carl Nichols, a nominee of President […]
PARIS: On January 11, the first coronavirus death was officially recorded in China. Eight months after the identification of the disease that appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, the world has recorded over one million deaths. 1,000 deaths in the first month The Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes the illness known […]
NEW YORK: With just over a month before the US presidential election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to take the debate stage tomorrow, the first show pitting the rivals against each other that’s sure to have millions of Americans glued to their screens. But in an ultra-polarised climate […]