BEIJING: Daily Covid-19 infections among athletes and team officials at the Beijing Winter Olympics jumped to 19 yesterday from two a day earlier, as Games organisers warned of more cases in coming days. Including the athletes and officials, 36 Games-related personnel were found to be infected – 29 when they […]
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ROME: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has asked Sergio Mattarella to carry on as president for a second term after political leaders failed to find an alternative, compromise candidate, a political source said today. The source said Draghi had told Mattarella he needed to remain in office “for the good […]
ZURICH : Austria will begin easing Covid-19 related restrictions next week, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told a news conference today, allowing shops and restaurants to remain open longer and easing restriction on the unvaccinated. The moves come as the Omicron variant leads to reduced hospitalisations despite high infection numbers. From February […]
PARIS: When it comes to music, we’re not all equal. Some have a naturally beautiful voice while others can’t carry a tune in a bucket. Start-up The Choral Hub wants to encourage all music lovers to sing along, and have fun doing it, with its new app. The Tchzant app […]
BERLIN: Germany reported another record number of daily new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, crossing the 200,000 threshold for the first time, as the country debates whether to impose compulsory vaccinations. The Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases reported 203,136 positive tests in the last 24 hours, 69,600 cases more […]
Meta Platforms Inc’s digital currency venture Diem Association is winding down and selling its technology to California-based Silvergate Capital Corp for about $200 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Meta, formerly Facebook Inc, first unveiled plans for Diem, known as Libra […]
STOCKHOLM : SAP said on Thursday it has agreed to buy a majority stake in privately held U.S. fintech firm Taulia as the German business software group seeks to expand its presence across supply-chain financing and working capital loans. Taulia works with financial institutions to allow suppliers that use its […]
BEIJING: Beijing has limited the movement of people in more parts of the Chinese capital, even as it reported fewer Covid-19 cases on Thursday, in a bid to lower virus risk less than 10 days before its hosting of the Winter Olympics Games. Beijing’s Fengtai district said late on Wednesday […]
NUKU’ALOFA (Tonga): A coronavirus-hit Australian warship docked in Tonga today, delivering desperately needed aid to the volcano-and-tsunami-struck nation under strict “no-contact” protocols. Tongan Health Minister Saia Piukala said the crew of the HMAS Adelaide would follow drastic health protocols to ensure the remote Pacific kingdom remains one of the few […]
NEW YORK: Rescue crews searched waters off Florida’s Atlantic shore yesterday for 39 people reported missing by a survivor found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the US Coast Guard called a suspected human smuggling operation gone awry. The survivor told authorities after his rescue that he had […]