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Ed Sheeran wins best artist as MTV Europe Music Awards returns to live format
BUDAPEST: English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran won best artist and best song for “Bad Habits”, while K-pop stars BTS snatched four awards at MTV’s Europe Music Awards, which returned as an in-person event after a virtual 2020 edition due to the pandemic.
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Global COVID-19 cases near 250 million as Delta surge eases
WORLDWIDE cases due to COVID-19 were approaching 250 million on Sunday as the surge from the Delta variant eases and more normal trade and tourism resume, although some countries in eastern Europe are experiencing record outbreaks. Over the last three
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Erdogan skips Glasgow climate summit in security dispute
ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan cancelled plans to attend the global climate conference in Glasgow on Monday because Britain failed to meet Turkey’s demands on security arrangements, Turkish media quoted him as saying. Heads of state and government from around the
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Train collision in southwest Britain injures several people
LONDON: Two trains collided at Fisherton Tunnel in the southwestern English city of Salisbury on Sunday, injuring a number of people, police said, declaring the crash a major incident. “A number of people have been injured, but thankfully no one has
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Ex-New York governor charged with sex crime
NEW YORK: Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a sex crime in the Albany City Court, New York State courts spokesperson Lucian Chalfen said. “A Misdemeanor Complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in Albany
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Afghan minister wants good relations, needs more time on girls’ education
DOHA: Afghanistan’s foreign minister appealed to the world for good relations on Monday but avoided making firm commitments on girls’ education despite international demands to allow all Afghan children to go back to school. Almost two months after the former Western-backed
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VP Harris and Indian Prime Minister Modi meet as U.S. eyes Asia
WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and stressed the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific region at a time when the United States is trying to solidify its pivot toward Asia
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Malaysian man sentenced to 15 years’ jail for assisting Al-Shabaab terrorist group
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian man known as Ahmad Mustakim Abdul Hamid has been sentenced to 15 years of jail by a Somali military court in Mogadishu for assisting the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in the Horn of Africa country. The Press Attache
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Afghanistan’s Taliban say working on reopening girls’ high schools
THE Taliban administration in Afghanistan is working towards reopening high school education for girls, who were left out of a recent return to school for boys and younger girls, although a Taliban spokesman speaking on Tuesday gave no time frame
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New Zealand says it may not get to zero COVID-19 cases again
WELLINGTON: New Zealand may not get back to having zero coronavirus cases in the community, the director general of health said on Thursday, as the country continues efforts to stamp out the infectious Delta variant of the virus. New Zealand eliminated
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