BANGKOK: Thailand’s king has commuted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s eight-year prison sentence to one year, the royal gazette said today, a day after the billionaire submitted a request for pardon. The country’s most famous politician returned to Thailand last week in a dramatic homecoming after 15 years abroad in […]
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GENEVA: people were killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “There needs to be an investigation… and the perpetrators need to be brought to justice,” UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. The UN is in touch with the […]
NEW YORK : Caroline Wozniacki claimed the biggest win of her comeback and a spot in the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday as the Dane’s Grand Slam adventure continued with an 7-5 7-6(5) upset of 11th seed Petra Kvitova. Twice a finalist at Flushing Meadows, Wozniacki was […]
MADRID: Spanish society must break a “pact of silence” and stop normalizing sexist behaviour and support women brave enough to speak out when it happens, acting Equality Minister Irene Montero said on Wednesday. Montero said in an interview with Reuters she hoped the furore created by Spanish Football Association (RFEF) […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s administration has for the first time approved direct US military aid to Taiwan under an assistance programme aimed at foreign governments, officials said on Wednesday (Aug 30), as worries grow over China. The State Department informed Congress on Tuesday of the US$80 million package, which is […]
BRASILIA: Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards […]
NEW DELHI: India issued a “strong protest” to China yesterday after a Beijing map claimed land that New Delhi says is theirs, including territory close to where the neighbours battled in 2020. “We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the so-called 2023 […]
WASHINGTON: A federal judge is expected to set a date today for what could be one of the most momentous trials in American history: the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith has asked for the trial of the 45th US president — who faces […]
SHANGHAI : China’s securities regulator approved the launch of 37 retail funds over the weekend, part of government efforts to revive a stock market struggling for lift-off in an ailing economy. The move comes on top of a slew of measures to shore up the market, including a stamp duty […]
All-rounder Jimmy Neesham will skip New Zealand’s Twenty20 series against England to return home for the birth of his first child, the team said on Monday. Neesham had been scheduled to stay on in Britain after taking part in The Hundred for the four-match series, which begins on Wednesday in […]