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, […]
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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 […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore and Malaysia have settled arrangements for cross-border travel between both countries, but are not yet ready to allow daily commuting, said Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan. Dr Balakrishnan was speaking to Singapore reporters at the Woodlands Immigration and Checkpoints Authority building on Sunday (Jul 26) morning […]
RENNES, France: A man who was held and released last week by French police investigating a fire at the gothic cathedral of Nantes was on Saturday (Jul 25) rearrested, prosecutors said. The fire broke out on July 18, hours after the volunteer alter server at the cathedral closed the building […]
AREQUIPA, Peru: A video of a mother running behind a van carrying Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra and begging him to save her husband from COVID-19, has gone viral. “Mr. President, Don’t go!” screams a tearful Celia Capira as she begs for a hospital bed for her husband in the video […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration moved Friday (Jul 24) to ease controls on exports of armed drones, saying that allies need US technology and that other countries outside of a non-proliferation pact were taking over the market. The White House announced that President Donald Trump had approved a move to diverge […]