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Koepka pips McIlroy for Player of the Year prize

MIAMI: World number one Brooks Koepka was named PGA of America Player of the Year for a second straight year on Monday. Koepka, who successfully defended his PGA Championship crown this year, edged out Rory McIlroy for the honour despite the Northern Ireland star’s win in the PGA Tour Championship

Driver killed in lock down Kashmir

SRINAGAR (India): Stonethrowing protesters in Indian Kashmir killed a driver of what they thought was a military truck, police said yesterday, as a crippling security lock down entered its fourth week. The fatality came ahead of talks between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump at the G7 in France when the

Trump suggested nuking hurricanes

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, Axios reported Sunday. During a hurricane briefing, Trump asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of

US, Taliban deal will not stop attacks

KABUL/PESHAWAR (Pakistan): As US and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, Taliban sources say a pact will not mean an end to fighting with the US-backed Afghan government. US and Taliban officials have been negotiating in Qatar since last

Prince Andrew denies witnessing Epstein abuse

LONDON: Britain’s Prince Andrew insisted on Saturday that “at no stage” during his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein did he “witness…any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest”. The prince, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son, is under heavy fire over his relationship with the disgraced US

182 pigs killed en route to slaughterhouse

METZ (France): More than 180 pigs were killed when a lorry that was transporting them to the slaughterhouse overturned at the weekend in north-eastern France, rescuers said yesterday. “A heavy goods vehicle (HGV) which was transporting 205 pigs overturned” at a roundabout in Etain, about 50 kilometres from the city

Sudan triggers state of emergency in eastern state over tribal clashes

KHARTOUM (Sudan): Sudan activated a state of emergency Sunday in an eastern state and ordered a probe into deadly tribal violence that has rocked the region for days, authorities said. Clashes have raged since Wednesday between the tribes of Bani Amer and Nuba in Port Sudan, the capital of the

Dutch say 100 firms make Brexit move

THE HAGUE: Nearly 100 international companies have moved to the Netherlands and 325 more are interested owing to uncertainty over Britain’s exit from the EU, Dutch officials said yesterday. British businesses are showing major interest but firms from North America, Asia and Australia are also eyeing a shift to the

Trump aides downplay ‘order’ to US companies to leave China

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s top aides on Sunday downplayed the idea of US companies being forced to abandon China any time soon, as an edict from the president ordering businesses to start looking for alternatives has been met with scepticism. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House economics advisor Larry Kudlow

Skin in the game: Hong Kong protesters get inked

As a tattooist’s black ink fills 
the petals of Hong Kong’s Bauhinia flower on her upper thigh, ‘C’ says the indelible act of rebellion will forever serve as a reminder of the city’s summer of defiance. “I’ll remember this year; I decided to stand up to fight for my freedom,”