No ‘Big Three’ would be disaster for Australian Open – Kyrgios
MELBOURNE - Nick Kyrgios has urged Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic to play at the Australian Open, saying Wednesday it would be a "disaster"...
Biden bets on shorter Covid-19 isolation time amid labor crunch
NEW YORK - Eyeing an Omicron surge that has exacerbated US labor stress especially in front-line industries, President Joe Biden's administration is betting shorter...
Russian court orders rights group Memorial to close
MOSCOW: Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country's most prominent rights group, which chronicled Stalin-era purges and symbolised the...
Indonesia to allow Boeing’s 737 MAX to fly again after fatal...
JAKARTA: Indonesia will lift a ban on the Boeing 737 MAX, the Southeast Asian country's transportation ministry said on Tuesday, three years after local...
Prague swimmers brave icy river for annual competition
Hundreds of swimmers braved the freezing waters of Prague's Vltava River on Sunday in honor of winter swimming pioneer Alfred Nikodem. - REUTERS
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Somalia’s president says PM suspended as elections spat deepens
MOGADISHU - Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced Monday that he was suspending Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, a day after the two men...
From talking ducks to scary croissants: 2021’s weirdest news
PARIS: How we laughed in 2021! Yes, the year was plagued by Covid, fires and floods... but it did throw up some weird and...
US monitoring Covid-hit holiday cruise ships
MIAMI - US authorities on Sunday were monitoring dozens of cruise ships hit by Covid-19 cases, with several reportedly denied port in the Caribbean.Over...
Global Christmas travel suffers as Omicron surges
Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 4,500 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the...
U.S. to lift travel ban on eight African countries
The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries, after imposing a ban last month over concerns about the Omicron variant....
