DUBAI: Iraq has received requests to increase the quantities of crude oil it exports to Asia, the head of state oil marketer SOMO told state news agency INA on Friday. China and India will not give up on Iraqi crude oil even if Russian oil is currently offered to them […]
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JOHANNESBERG: Nelson Mandela was on first-name basis with Queen Elizabeth II, a rare privilege contravening royal etiquette, the late anti-apartheid hero’s foundation said Friday, sharing anecdotes of their fond relationship. Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, died aged 96 in her Scottish summer residence on Thursday. “By […]
Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane has set his sights on chasing down Alan Shearer’s all-time Premier League goalscoring record after his two goals against Nottingham Forest moved him up to joint-third in the scoring charts. Kane missed a penalty but netted twice to surpass 200 league goals in his career […]
Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its security defenses and spam accounts, CNN and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing whistleblower disclosures by the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko. Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, […]
LONDON: The British scientists behind one of the major therapeutic COVID-19 trials have turned their focus to treatments for monkeypox, a viral disease that has been labeled a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). The team from Oxford University behind the so-called RECOVERY trial – which honed […]
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Moscow on Tuesday (Aug 23) of a powerful response if Russian forces carry out attacks on or around Ukraine’s Independence Day. Zelenskyy has warned that Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb 24, could try “something particularly ugly” in the run-up to Wednesday’s Independence Day, […]
TOKYO : The U.S. dollar hit a fresh five-week high versus major peers on Monday after more Federal Reserve officials flagged the likelihood of continued aggressive monetary tightening ahead of the central bank’s key Jackson Hole symposium this week. The euro sank to a new five-week trough after Russia announced […]
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 […]
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. […]