China’s finance ministry said on Tuesday it will extend existing tariff exemptions for 16 products from the United States including lubricants, whey and fish meal by an additional year. BEIJING: China’s finance ministry said on Tuesday it will extend existing tariff exemptions for 16 products from the United States including […]
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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday granted emergency approval for use of a coronavirus vaccine, six weeks after human trials in the Gulf Arab state started. A phase III trial of a Covid-19 inactivated vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopham began in the UAE in July and is […]
Oil prices inched lower on Tuesday as a bleaker outlook for global fuel demand prompted fresh selling, but short-covering ahead of a meeting later this week of OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, limited losses. TOKYO: Oil prices inched lower on Tuesday as a bleaker outlook for global fuel […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state, at the centre of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, reported on Tuesday no deaths from Covid-19 in more than two months fuelling optimism of a further easing of restrictions in the state. Australia’s second-most populous state said new cases nudged higher to 42 in the last […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would like convicted rapists to be publicly executed or chemically castrated, reacting to a question on the rape of a woman on a highway last week that has caused uproar in the South Asian nation. Last week, a mother of two […]
MILAN: A group of scientists sent a formal letter to the Lancet yesterday outlining doubts about the accuracy of early data on Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, one of the authors said, adding further fuel to a dispute surrounding the “Sputnik-V” shot. Fifteen scientists from five countries signed the letter presenting their […]
LONDON: Taxi app Uber will battle in court on Tuesday (Sep 15) to win back its licence to operate in London after the city’s transport regulator removed it over safety concerns. Transport for London (TfL) refused in 2019 to grant the Silicon Valley-based company a new licence due to what […]
WASHINGTON: The US announced on Monday (Sep 14) it would block a range of Chinese products made by “forced labour” in the Xinjiang region, including from a “vocational” centre that it branded a “concentration camp” for Uighur minorities. “The Chinese government is engaged in systematic abuses against the Uighur people” […]
TOKYO: Yoshihide Suga, the man expected to become Japan’s next prime minister, is a farmer’s son with a reputation for inscrutability, who has become a key government adviser, spokesman and policy enforcer. The 71-year-old easily won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race today and is all but certain to […]