SYDNEY: Two Australian media firms have rushed two of their China-based reporters from the country after police there demanded interviews with both journalists, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported today. An ABC correspondent based in Beijing and the Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) correspondent based in Shanghai boarded a flight to […]
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NEW YORK: Second seed Sofia Kenin of the United States was sent crashing out of the US Open on Monday, beaten in straight sets by Elise Mertens of Belgium. Kenin, the highest seeded player left in the tournament and winner of the 2020 Australian Open, was bundled out of the […]
SEOUL: Thousands of trainee doctors in South Korea returned to work today after ending a more than two-week strike as the country continued to post three-digit rises in new daily coronavirus infections. The Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 136 new cases as of midnight Monday, after […]
SALEM: Police broke up scuffles between supporters of President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter activists and arrested at least two people in Salem, Oregon, yesterday as protests in the region turn increasingly violent. More than 100 Trump supporters, including members of the all-male, alt-right group the Proud Boys, came […]
BEIJING: China accused Indian troops of violating a bilateral agreement and firing warning shots in the air during a confrontation with Chinese personnel on the disputed border on Monday, amid renewed tensions between the two countries. Chinese border guards took “countermeasures” to stabilise the situation, Zhang Shuili, spokesman for the […]
MADRID: Spain passed the landmark figure of 500,000 coronavirus infections yesterday as India reopened some metro lines despite becoming the world’s second most affected country. Spain had largely gained control over its outbreak by imposing one of the world’s toughest lockdowns, but infections have surged since the restrictions were fully […]
WASHINGTON: Republican President Donald Trump, accused by Joe Biden of putting lives at risk in his handling of the coronavirus, yesterday called his Democratic rival “stupid” and demanded an apology for what Trump called anti-vaccine rhetoric. Trailing in national opinion polls as the US death toll from the virus approaches […]
NEW YORK: Tsvetana Pironkova continued her dream run at the US Open when the Bulgarian beat France’s Alize Cornet 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 on Monday (Sep 7) to move into the quarter-finals in New York for the first time in her career. Playing in her first tournament in three years, the […]
Health officials have been concerned about whether experimental vaccines could safely protect the elderly, whose immune systems usually react less robustly to vaccines, against the virus that has led to nearly 890,000 deaths worldwide. Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Monday its coronavirus vaccine candidate appeared to be safe […]
The Russian health ministry registered the first vaccine against Covid-19, named Sputnik V, on August 11. The first batch of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has been released into civil circulation, […]