BEIJING: China has sealed off a large city near Beijing, cutting transport links and banning millions of residents from leaving, as authorities move to stem the country’s largest Covid-19 outbreak in six months. The pandemic has so far broadly been brought to heel by Chinese authorities since its emergence in […]
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WASHINGTON: US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick has died of injuries suffered during a riot led by supporters of President Donald Trump, the force said in a statement late yesterday. Wednesday’s breach of the building was a stunning assault on American democracy at a time when Congress was certifying the […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump faced a growing chorus of calls yesterday to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment for inciting the mob violence that swept through the US Capitol one day earlier. Adopted in 1967, the 25th Amendment lays out the provisions for a transfer of power from […]
LONDON: Manchester United announced on Thursday they had completed the transfer of Ivorian winger Amad Diallo from Serie A side Atalanta. The 18-year-old has signed a contract at Old Trafford until 2025, with the option of an extra year. The agreement between the clubs was first announced on October 5 […]
KOTA BARU: The players currently training with the Kelantan United (KUFC) team are of high quality and have good discipline, says KUFC technical director Nazrulerwan Makmor. He said this was based on assessments by himself and other coaches during the pre-season, and this would bode well for the squad in […]
WASHINGTON: Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol yesterday in a stunning bid to overturn his election defeat, battling police in the hallways and delaying the certification of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory for hours. In the gravest assault on the symbol of American democracy in more […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said today there will be an orderly transition when Joe Biden takes office as president in less than two weeks, after Congress certified the Democrat’s victory in the Nov. 3 election. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts […]
WASHINGTON: Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress today formally certified Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory. Immediately afterward, the White House released a statement from Trump in which he pledged an “orderly transition” when Biden […]
LOS ANGELES: NBA superstar LeBron James called the decision not to bring charges in the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin “a blow to the heart” on Tuesday. “To hear what happened in Kenosha today was a blow to the heart and to the gut,” James said after the […]
SEOUL: South Korea rolled out mass testing for 52 prisons in the country after a massive prison outbreak and may extend flight suspensions from Britain in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus cases, the health minister said on today. Over half of the total 2,292 inmates and personnel […]