The United States issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a step to stabilise global energy markets roiled by the Iran war. Oil prices eased on Friday (Mar 13) morning in […]
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WASHINGTON: Two US sailors were injured after the USS Gerald Ford suffered a non-combat-related fire on board, the US military said on Thursday (Mar 12). The Ford carrier, the United States’ newest aircraft carrier and the world’s largest, is taking part in operations against Iran and currently located in the […]
TOKYO: Japan is hurting from the Iran war ahead of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s visit to Washington next week. She has promised to be “candid” with the United States president. How forthright Japan’s first woman premier can afford to be in their Mar 19 meeting, and how receptive President Donald […]
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Friday (Feb 27) that she opposes changing the imperial family’s male succession rules. The comments are her clearest on the issue – the subject of increasing debate as a succession crisis looms – since her party’s landslide election victory this month. […]
“We are now in a world where international relations are no longer driven primarily by rules or by attempts to achieve consensus,” the Foreign Affairs Minister says. SINGAPORE: Singapore will strengthen partnerships with middle powers and regional blocs as it navigates a “geostrategic tectonic plate rupture”, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian […]
The service, developed in partnership with StarHub, will be available for the 2026-27 Premier League season The world’s most popular club football competition, the English Premier League, is set to launch its own direct-to-consumer streaming service in Singapore this year, with plans for potential expansion to other countries, the Financial […]
LONDON: An AI productivity boom, if it materialises, may help buy major economies more time to clean up their strained public finances, economists say, although it won’t do the heavy lifting. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Debt is above 100 per cent of output across most rich economies and set […]
MILAN: American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates said they believed they had delivered an Olympic gold-medal performance on Wednesday despite having to settle for silver behind France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. Chock and Bates entered the decisive free dance in a virtual tie for the lead […]
TOKYO: Japan has not eased its vigilance over exchange-rate movements, its top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Thursday, issuing a fresh warning against currency volatility after the yen surged against the dollar. “There has been various speculation on whether we conducted rate checks after the release of U.S. employment […]
US lawmakers have said that redactions in the Epstein material released by the Justice Department appear to go beyond the exemptions allowed under a law passed last year.\ WASHINGTON: A Republican US lawmaker on Wednesday (Feb 11) accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of concealing the names of powerful associates of […]