KUALA LUMPUR: The United States seized latex gloves made by Malaysian firm Top Glove after a shipment was found in Kansas City despite an import ban on its products over forced labour allegations, US Customs said on Wednesday (May 12). In a statement, the US Customs and Border Protection said […]
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council held another emergency meeting on Wednesday (May 12) on worsening hostilities between Israel and Palestinians, again without agreeing on a joint statement due to opposition from the United States, Israel’s key ally, diplomats said. According to several sources, 14 of the 15 members of […]
TURIN: Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said he has received offers from other clubs as he contemplates his next move, having decided on leaving Turin at the end of the season. The 43-year-old first joined Juventus from Parma in 2001 and has been there ever since, apart from one season at […]
The UK economy shrank by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021, as the country experienced a lengthy winter lockdown. School closures and a large fall in retail sales earlier in the quarter dragged down economic growth, said the Office for National Statistics. The economy is now 8.7% smaller than […]
JERUSALEM: Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired more than 1,000 rockets towards Israel since Monday evening, when hostilities escalated dramatically following days of unrest in Jerusalem, the Israeli army said. Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters Wednesday morning that the figures related to the barrage that began at roughly 6:00pm […]
Apart from Dev Patel, The Green Knight features a bevy of familiar faces, including the likes of Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, and Ralph Ineson. A new trailer for The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel is out, and it looks every bit as […]
BENGALURU: India said on Wednesday a record number of people were killed by the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, pushing its overall death toll over a quarter million, while a leading virologist said it was too early to say if infections had reached a peak. Deaths from Covid-19 swelled […]
LONDON: “You have to run much less,” was the explanation Pep Guardiola offered on how he turned the worst start to a season of his managerial career into a third Premier League title in four years for Manchester City. After a 1-1 draw at home to West Brom in mid-December, […]
An image of an ORC, by Bärbel Koribalski, based on ASKAP data, with the optical image from the Dark Energy Survey In the last few years, astronomers have spotted a handful of gigantic and almost perfectly circular radio objects out in the distant universe. Though no one has an […]
Shares in Chinese food delivery giant Meituan have fallen sharply after its boss reportedly shared a 1,000-year-old poem on social media. The Book Burning Pit by Zhang Jie was posted, then deleted, by the firm’s billionaire chief executive, Wang Xing. The Tang dynasty poem was interpreted as a veiled criticism […]