REUTERS: Premier League record appearance holder Gareth Barry has ended his playing career aged 39, British media reported on Thursday. Midfielder Barry made 653 appearances in lengthy spells with Aston Villa, Manchester City and Everton, scoring 53 goals. He also made 53 appearances for England. After almost a decade at […]
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LONDON: Several Chelsea players have not returned for pre-season training after testing positive for Covid-19, according to reports in British media. The reports did not name the players and Chelsea did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Players who test positive have to self isolate for 10 […]
While Trump is planning to give his speech from the South Lawn of the White House lawn, Harris’s remarks from Washington D.C. will serve as the Democratic Party’s main counter to his appearance, the report said. Washington: Democratic Party’s Indian-origin vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on […]
BERLIN: Germany will impose tougher rules on mask wearing and keep fans out of stadiums until at the least the end of the year to combat a worrying rise in coronavirus infections, under a draft seen by AFP today. Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet with the leaders of […]
Hong Kong media, citing unidentified sources, said 12 people from the former British colony were arrested while sailing to Taiwan where they planned to apply for political asylum. Chinese authorities have arrested at least 10 people after intercepting a boat off the coast of the southern province of Guangdong, the […]
WASHINGTON: Russia today blamed the United States for a tense confrontation in Syria in which Russian military vehicles and helicopters surrounded US armoured vehicles, leaving US troops injured. The White House National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement that a Russian vehicle struck a US mine-resistant all-terrain vehicle, “causing […]
Founder Zhang Yiming’s letter was released after the company’s chief executive Kevin Mayer quit TikTok, which has been banned in India and accused by the Donald Trump administration of breaching US’s national security Chinese software developer Bytedance, which owns TikTok, is moving fast to resolve problems it is facing in […]
United States has the highest number of cases in the world (5.9 million), followed by Brazil (3.72 million) and India (3.31 million). Scientists across the world are working for an affordable Covid-19 vaccine as the infection tally has crossed the 24 million-mark worldwide on Thursday. As many as 822,000 people […]
TAIPEI: The risk of accidental conflict is rising because of tension in the South China Sea and around Taiwan and communication must be maintained to reduce the risk of miscalculation, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said today. Democratic Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as “scared” Chinese territory, has complained of Chinese military […]
KABUL: Families and rescue workers in Afghanistan searched yesterday for survivors of flash floods that killed more than 122 people and destroyed more than 1,500 houses north of the capital, Kabul, officials said. At least 250 people were injured when torrential rain earlier in the week triggered flash floods that […]