STOCKHOLM: Sweden will send Ukraine a new military support package, worth 2.2 billion crowns (RM938 million) and consisting mainly of artillery ammunition, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said today. Jonson told a news conference the government had also formally tasked the armed forces with looking into whether Sweden would be able […]
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MOSCOW: Russia today indicated it was moving swiftly towards revoking its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of resuming nuclear testing. Putin yesterday said Russia’s nuclear doctrine — which sets out the conditions under which he would press the nuclear […]
DC United and head coach Wayne Rooney have mutually agreed to part ways, the Major League Soccer (MLS) club announced on Saturday. The 37-year-old former England and Manchester United forward played for DC United between 2018-19 before taking charge of the Washington side in July 2022. DC United missed the […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today he remained hopeful a referendum to recognise the country’s Indigenous people in the constitution would succeed, even as the measure lags in opinion polls less than a week from the vote. “I’m optimistic,” Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) this morning, […]
ROME: The Italian government is planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the Campi Flegrei super volcano near Naples, officials said yesterday. The new measures, which include a scheme to check on the strength of buildings in the area after months of […]
NEW DELHI: Scientists and government authorities were working on an early warning system for glacial floods at a Himalayan lake in northeast India when it broke its banks this week with deadly consequences. Mountainous Sikkim state plunged into chaos on Wednesday as floods spurred by heavy rain and an avalanche […]
SEOUL: North Korean state media on Friday (Oct 6) criticised France over the deployment of a patrol aircraft in waters near the peninsula, labelling it “outdated gunboat diplomacy”. The criticism comes after Japan’s foreign ministry announced earlier this week that France will conduct surveillance of illicit maritime activities including ship-to-ship […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s government has opened an investigation into four companies named in a media report as conducting business with firms linked to United States-sanctioned Huawei in China, and is considering tighter rules on key technologies. Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said the ministry would be looking into whether the firms’ […]
British media regulator Ofcom on Thursday asked the country’s antitrust regulator to investigate U.S. tech giants Amazon and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK cloud market. Ofcom said its study identified features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch to, and use multiple cloud suppliers. “The CMA (Competition […]
BRUSSELS: This year is on track to become the hottest year on record, with the global mean temperature to date this year 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than average, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said today. The global temperature for January-September is also 1.4°C higher than the preindustrial average […]