WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to boost his country’s Paris climate accord target yesterday and called for a green revolution, just minutes after US President Donald Trump blasted China for “rampant pollution.” Addressing the UN General Assembly, Xi said China would achieve a peak in carbon dioxide emissions […]
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OTTAWA: Covid-19 infections have surged in Canada and if people do not take stringent precautions, they could balloon to exceed levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic, health officials warned on Monday. “Canada is at a crossroads and individual action to reduce contact rates will decide our path,” […]
WASHINGTON: A US judge early today blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late today. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown […]
WASHINGTON: An official in the US state of South Dakota reported hitting a deer with his car, when in fact he struck and killed a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, authorities said yesterday. Jason Ravnsborg, a 44-year-old elected official who serves as the state’s attorney […]
WILMINGTON: Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” yesterday for failing to acknowledge global warming’s role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump said the crisis stemmed from lax forest management. Dozens of conflagrations have raged with unprecedented scope across more than 1.6 million hectares […]
LOS ANGELES: A gunman shot and critically wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as they sat in their patrol car late on Saturday in an attack that was captured on video. Footage of the incident released by the sheriff’s department showed the suspect approaching the parked vehicle on foot […]
LAHORE: Comments by the lead police investigator suggesting that the victim of a gang rape in Pakistan that occurred along one of the country’s most secure highways was to blame have spurred cries of outrage. Investigators say the victim left her home with her two children in Lahore and was […]
SYDNEY: A 46-year-old Australian surfer died after being attacked by a shark on a popular Gold Coast beach, the first fatal shark attack on the beach in 62 years and despite protective “shark nets” and drumlines offshore. The man was attacked at Greenmount Beach late yesterday while surfing what is […]
HONG KONG: Twelve people from Hong Kong arrested as they reportedly sailed to Taiwan for political asylum will “have to be dealt with” by mainland China, but the city government would try to provide assistance, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today. Chinese authorities arrested the 12 people on August 23 […]
SALEM: Police broke up scuffles between supporters of President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter activists and arrested at least two people in Salem, Oregon, yesterday as protests in the region turn increasingly violent. More than 100 Trump supporters, including members of the all-male, alt-right group the Proud Boys, came […]