Archives for September 7, 2020
India, witness our lowest: Bollywood livid over Rhea Chakraborty’s media trial
Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty has been making headlines ever since she was summoned for the suicide case of late Bollywood star and boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput. Chakraborty has been asked…
‘Fire on all sides’: California wildfires prompt evacuations
More than 200 people were airlifted to safety overnight after a fast-moving wildfire cut off the only road out of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreational site in California’s…
Brexit back in crisis as UK threatens to undermine divorce pact
LONDON: Brexit trade talks plunged into fresh crisis on Monday after Britain warned the European Union that it could undercut the divorce deal it signed unless the bloc agrees to…
Tokyo Olympics will go ahead ‘with or without COVID’ – IOC’s Coates
TOKYO: Tokyo's postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates told AFP Monday, vowing they will be the "Games that conquered…
Back to school for Suarez in bid for Juventus move
BARCELONA: Barcelona forward Luis Suarez is due to sit a language test on Monday in a bid to obtain Italian citizenship that would enable him to move to Serie A…
Climate activists gathered at Trient glacier mourn Switzerland’s receding ice
SWITZERLAND: Climate activists gathered at Switzerland's Trient glacier on Sunday to urge authorities to take action to reduce CO2 emissions and draw attention to the disappearance of ice shelves and…
China to hold more military drills off northeast, east coasts
BEIJING: China will hold further military exercises from Monday along its northeast and eastern coast, the government said, the latest in a series of unusual back-to-back drills against a backdrop…
Bosnian Tesla fan impatient for Cybertruck release builds a lookalike
BOSNIA: A Bosnian fan of both Ford trucks and Elon Musk’s Tesla could not just sit on his hands waiting for the electric carmaker to release its Cybertruck, expected from…
Centre to challenge the acquittal of former BA MPA Achakzai
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to challenge the model court’s order to acquit Balochistan Assembly former legislator Abdul Majeed Achakzai in traffic policeman’s murder case for lack of evidence.…
‘Tenet’ roars at the box-office with almost $150 million globally
After months of delays, Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Tenet finally arrived in US theaters and generated $ million over Labor Day weekend. Ticket sales, though difficult to dissect given the uncharted waters of…