SYDNEY: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he will release a report on Tuesday from the solicitor general on his predecessor Scott Morrison being secretly sworn into five ministries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Albanese said it wasn’t suggested Morrison’s actions were illegal but they raised questions over political conventions and […]
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said Sunday he was “concerned” by rising tensions between the state and the Catholic church in Nicaragua, two days after bishop and regime critic Rolando Alvarez was detained. Francis said he was following “closely with concern and sorrow” the situation in Nicaragua, amid a worsening standoff […]
China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin both plan to attend the Group of 20 summit in Bali in November, Indonesian president Joko Widodo says. “Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,” Mr Widodo, also known as Jokowi, told Bloomberg News in an interview. […]
SAO PAULO: The race for Brazil’s October elections officially opens today with duelling campaign events by far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva highlighting the South American giant’s deep divides. Front-runners Bolsonaro and Lula, who have in reality been on the campaign trail for months, […]
SEOUL: The United States, South Korea and Japan participated in a ballistic missile defence exercise off Hawaii’s coast last week, the Pentagon said today, reviving combined drills with an eye on North Korea as well as China. It was the first time the three countries have held such drills since […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand tomorrow, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said. Rajapaksa flew to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered […]
SINGAPORE: Just a year ago, Loh Kean Yew was ranked 40th in the world. Eliminated in the group stages of the men’s singles at the Tokyo Olympics, his last tournament win was two years prior. By his own admission, Loh was an unknown entity. The Singaporean’s claim to fame was […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s foreign minister said today that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit as an excuse to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island. Joseph Wu told a press conference in Taipei that Taiwan, which is claimed by […]
SHANGHAI: Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing today, including the Chinese autonomous region’s two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in tropical Hainan and in Xinjiang in China’s west. Subvariants of the highly transmissible Omicron are challenging China’s strategy of swiftly blocking the […]
TOKYO : Japan’s Fast Retailing, the owner of global clothing chain Uniqlo, said on Thursday it would open its first discount brand GU store in the United States this autumn. The store will open in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City in what will be the brand’s debut outside […]