SHANGHAI: Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere in the coming hours, European and US tracking centres said today. While there were still varying estimates of where the rocket would land, it appeared increasingly likely it would not hit the United […]
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LONDON: Chelsea forced Manchester City to put their Premier League title party on hold yesterday, winning 2-1 to strengthen their grip on a top-four place as Liverpool kept their Champions League qualification hopes alive. Victory for City in a rehearsal for the Champions League final would have confirmed them as […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today began a nine-day shutdown affecting travel and tourist hotspots in a bid to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Already battling a third wave of infections and increasingly nervous about the crisis across the border in India, the government has […]
NEW DELHI: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu announced new lockdown measures today as officials reported a nationwide record number of single-day Covid-19 deaths as cases continue to surge. India’s health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities over the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to just under 240,000. Cases […]
LONDON: Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Nuno Espirito Santo said striker Raul Jimenez will see a specialist in 10 days as he builds on his recovery from surgery on a fractured skull. Jimenez was taken to hospital after a clash of heads with Arsenal defender David Luiz during a Premier League match […]
TOKYO: Japan Airlines posted an annual net loss of US$2.6 billion on Friday (May 7) but did not release a forecast for the current financial year, citing uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic. The carrier, Japan’s second-largest by market share, suffered a net loss of 286.7 billion yen for the year […]
YANGON: Five people killed in an explosion in Myanmar this week, including an ousted lawmaker, had been building a bomb, media controlled by the military junta said today. Since the military seized power and ousted an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, Myanmar […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico will punish those responsible for an overpass collapse that killed at least 24 people and injured dozens when a train on Mexico City’s newest metro line plunged onto a busy road below, the government said yesterday. Accompanied by officials involved in the construction and maintenance of the […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s prime minister fended off accusations of racism and having blood on his hands on Tuesday (May 4), as he retreated from a threat to jail Australians trying to escape COVID-19-wracked India. Scott Morrison’s government moved to ban travellers from India from entering Australia until May 15, threatening rule-breakers […]
MOSCOW: Russia reported 8,697 new Covid-19 cases today, including 2,699 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,823,255. The government coronavirus task force said 342 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing Russia’s death toll to 110,862. The federal statistics […]