LONDON: Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil has shown his support for Marcus Rashford’s campaign to end child food poverty by providing 1,400 free lunchtime meals for the rest of the week to schools in London. Manchester United forward Rashford has campaigned for the government to provide food vouchers during school holidays to […]
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MELBOURNE: Melbourne’s shops, restaurants and hotels opened for business on Wednesday (Oct 28) after a four-month coronavirus lockdown, with happy customers enjoying alfresco eating in the spring sunshine and shopkeepers hoping for big sales to make up for lost revenue. The state of Victoria and its capital Melbourne, Australia’s second […]
WASHINGTON: More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday (Oct 28) tally from the US Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking […]
BURNLEY, England: Son Heung-min’s prolific start to the season continued with his 76th minute header giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win at winless Burnley in the Premier League on Monday (Oct 26) and moving Jose Mourinho’s side up to fifth. The South Korean was left unmarked at the back post […]
NEW DELHI: The United States and India must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said toay as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Pompeo arrived in New Delhi yesterday along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for an annual […]
SINGAPORE: A new task force has been set up to help vulnerable professionals, managers and executives (PMEs), particularly those who are aged 40 to 60. This was announced by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers’ Federation (SNEF) on Tuesday (Oct 27), and comes two months […]
HANOI: Vietnam was rushing to ensure more than half a million people were out of harm’s way today, ahead of the arrival of a powerful typhoon set to dump more heavy rain on a central region devastated by weeks of intense weather. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and schools closed […]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam, today condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Muhammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being displayed in France of the Prophet. A foreign ministry official also said in a statement […]
COLOMBO: China has raised objections to what it called US bullying of Sri Lanka after Washington said the Indian Ocean island must make “difficult but necessary choices” regarding its ties with China. The comments by the Chinese embassy in Colombo came shortly before the arrival today of US Secretary of […]
PESHAWAR: A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80, police and hospital officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb in the northwestern city, near the border with Afghanistan, which […]