WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump in a New Year’s Eve message reflected on his accomplishments in office, calling them “historic victories,” while his successor, President-elect Joe Biden, struck an upbeat tone in looking ahead to 2021. After weeks of vowing to win his fight to remain in office, Republican Trump said […]
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CAIRO: Egypt’s public prosecutor Wednesday cleared five policemen of responsibility in the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni and said he will not pursue the case because the perpetrator is unknown. The decision announced by state prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy comes nearly three weeks after Italian prosecutors said they planned to […]
OSLO: Rescue workers were still searching yesterday for survivors after a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, leaving 10 people missing, including two children. An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of around 1,000 people. Homes […]
WASHINGTON: Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a Covid-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government’s target to vaccinate 20 million people this month. Shots are reaching nursing home residents at an even slower pace than others first in […]
OSLO: All travellers entering Norway will have to take a Covid-19 test within 24 hours of arrival from Jan. 2, the country’s justice ministry said today. To stop the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain, travellers from any point of origin will need to enter Norway at […]
BEIJING: China has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, according to a publication run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The variant was detected in a 23-year-old female student returning to China from Britain, who was […]
AMSTERDAM: A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, one of the country’s health chiefs said today. Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at the National […]
ADEN: Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa today in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of Aden the previous day that took place as officials in a government backed by Riyadh arrived there. The coalition accused the Houthi movement, which it has been fighting […]
SYDNEY: Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House as they do every year, but the harbour below was a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed. No light show will illuminate Beijing from the top of the […]
DUBAI: Iran’s Cabinet yesterday allocated US$150,000 (RM607,178) for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official Irna news agency reported. Describing Iran’s handling of the situation as “unacceptable,” Ukraine said the amount of compensation should be negotiated […]