Egos clash in Bezos and Musk space race
PARIS - Even the Milky Way seems too small to keep the egos of tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk from colliding as...
Napoleon’s Mideast campaign still contentious, two centuries on
CAIRO - Napoleon Bonaparte's bloody campaign in Egypt and Palestine, which marked the start of modern European colonialism in the Middle East, remains contentious...
North Korea says Biden has a ‘hostile policy’, warns of response
SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday accused US President Joe Biden of pursuing a hostile policy, dismissing "spurious" American diplomacy and warning of a response.Biden...
Afghan retreat: US formally begins withdrawing from its longest war
KABUL - The United States formally begins withdrawing its last troops from Afghanistan Saturday, bringing its longest war nearer to an end but also...
Russia bars EU officials as latest row escalates
MOSCOW - Tensions between Russia and the European Union escalated on Friday as Moscow barred eight EU officials from entering the country and Brussels...
US investigates more ‘Havana syndrome’ attacks: senators
WASHINGTON - US senators said Friday that the government is investigating an apparent increase in mysterious directed-energy attacks dubbed "Havana syndrome", amid new reports...
India posts daily record as global cases hit 150m
NEW DELHI: India on Friday posted another global record for daily coronavirus infections, pushing worldwide cases past 150 million as a pandemic that has...
AstraZeneca reports $275m in vaccine sales
LONDON: The British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca on Friday reported US$275 million in sales from its Covid vaccine in the first three months of the...
‘It’s all we have’: the plight of S.Africa’s informal miners
ERMELO (SOUTH AFRICA) - Darkness enveloped a disused mine in South Africa's Mpumalanga province as a pick-up truck left the site's entrance and drove...
Rockets fired at two Myanmar air bases, says military
Unidentified attackers fired rockets at two Myanmar air bases on Thursday but there were no casualties and only minor damage in another sign of...
