The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that Bangladesh will not take part in the 2026 T20 World Cup. The global governing body said Scotland will replace Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) refused to play under the published schedule. The ICC made the announcement in a press release issued on Saturday evening, Bangladesh […]
Read MoreKazakhstan has set up a special commission to investigate an incident that forced the temporary shutdown of the Tengiz oilfield. The commission includes representatives of Tengizchevroil, the operator of the supergiant field, as well as officials from regional and national government agencies. Tengizchevroil is run by a consortium led by U.S. oil major Chevron, which […]
Read MoreBy Maria Siow Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has used his Davos debut to drive home a message to global investors that his country intends to stamp out corruption and “greedanomics”, while positioning itself as a rare pocket of stability in an unsettled world economy. Speaking during a special address at the World Economic Forum (WEF) […]
Read MoreBy Fan Chen At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, world leaders warned of an increasingly fractured global order and took veiled swipes at the United States. But they held back on directly criticising China, which experts said signalled a recalibration in their approach to Beijing as US […]
Read MoreThe UN nuclear watchdog must clarify its stance on US and Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites last June before inspectors are allowed to visit those facilities, Iranian media on Friday quoted the country’s atomic chief as saying. Mohammad Eslami said the inspections so far had been limited to undamaged sites and he criticised the […]
Read MoreBy Shi Jiangtao The Chinese navy and coastguard said on Friday that they rescued 17 Filipino crew members from a Singaporean-flagged cargo ship that had capsized near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. According to the China Coast Guard (CCG), the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in Sansha, Hainan province, received a distress report […]
Read MoreOSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu is planning an official visit to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Such a statement was made during a meeting between Meder Abakirov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan, and Volker Frobarth, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in the Kyrgyz Republic, The Caspian Post reports via Kyrgyz media. The talks focused on cooperation between […]
Read MoreRAQQA, Syria: Poor security at a camp in Syria housing thousands of suspected relatives of Daesh group militants has prevented UN agency staff from entering, days after Kurdish forces withdrew and the army deployed at the site. Two former employees at the Al-Hol desert camp told AFP on Friday that some of its residents had […]
Read MoreSEOUL: Dozens of South Koreans allegedly involved in online scams in Cambodia were returned to South Korea on Friday to face investigations in what was the largest group repatriation of Korean criminal suspects from abroad. The 73 South Korean suspects allegedly scammed fellow Koreans out of 48.6 billion won ($33 million), according to a South […]
Read MoreBy Iman Muttaqin Yusof Malaysia’s parliament has introduced new media-centre rules that ban doorstop interviews without permission and restrict access to key premises where lawmakers typically brief reporters, fuelling fears of a narrowing media space. Under the guidelines, journalists “are not allowed” to conduct such interviews – also known as doorstepping – “without permission”, facing […]
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