FLORIDA: Hurricane Isaias strengthened slightly as it lashed the Bahamas on Saturday (Aug 1), bearing down on Florida and was expected to approach the southeast of the state later in the day before traveling up the eastern US seaboard. Isaias was carrying top sustained winds of 140kph and was located […]
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BAGHDAD: Iraq will hold its next parliamentary elections nearly a year early, the premier announced on Friday (Jul 31), as he seeks to make good on promises he offered when he came to power. “Jun 6, 2021, has been fixed as the date for the next legislative elections,” said Prime […]
LONDON: Three British teenagers were sentenced to a combined 42 years in jail by a judge on Friday (Jul 31) for killing a policeman who was dragged behind a car for more than a mile, in a case that shocked the country. In August last year, the trio were stealing […]
JOHANNESBURG: When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them. They can’t keep up. Video filmed inside the hospital and seen by Reuters shows patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, being treated in […]
DHAKA: After losing his job at a garment factory in Dhaka in April as the coronavirus pandemic hit, Mohammad Sumon returned to his village in Jamalpur, about 160km away, hoping to support his family working as a part-time mechanic. But severe floods that struck Bangladesh the last week of June, […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the top US court, has been hospitalised again, the court said late on Wednesday (Jul 29). The 87-year-old liberal icon was undergoing a “minimally invasive non-surgical procedure” in a New York hospital, the country’s highest […]
BOSTON: The former chief executive of specialty finance lender Hercules Capital was sentenced on Wednesday (Jul 29) to six months in prison for paying US$450,000 to help his daughters gain an unfair edge in the college admissions process. Federal prosecutors in Boston say Manuel Henriquez and his wife, Elizabeth Henriquez, […]
TEGUCIGALPA: Honduras said on Monday (Jul 27) it had seized 900 kilos (1,984 pounds) of cocaine in a joint operation with Colombia. Military and police authorities intercepted a fishing boat on Sunday in the eastern department of Gracias a Dios. The cocaine was stashed in hidden compartments, the armed forces […]
LISBON: More than 850 firefighters brought a huge wildfire sweeping across part of central Portugal under control on Monday (Jul 27) as the country entered a state of alert due to the high risk of further outbreaks. The wildfire had raged in the municipality of Oleiros since Saturday and spread […]
MECCA: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Jul 29) begins hosting the annual Haj pilgrimage, dramatically down-scaled due to the coronavirus pandemic that has barred millions of international pilgrims for the first time in modern history. Up to 10,000 people residing in the kingdom will participate in the Muslim ritual, a tiny […]