LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Cancelling the Tokyo Olympics in response to mounting public opposition in Japan to holding the Games during the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unparalleled act in peacetime. It would represent a bombshell for the sporting world and have far-reaching and complex financial consequences. While the Japanese government and
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple’s online marketplace would become a “toxic” mess if the iPhone maker were forced to allow third-party apps without reviewing them, chief executive Tim Cook told a high-stakes trial Friday challenging the company’s tight control of its platform. Cook, the last scheduled witness in the case brought by
MADRID: Spain will allow all vaccinated travellers to visit the country from June 7, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Friday, as the tourism hotspot aims to revive its virus-battered travel industry. “From June 7, all vaccinated people and their families will be welcome in our country, Spain, regardless of their
BANGKOK: After muttering a prayer, Thai taxi driver Sopee Silpakit strings a chain of amulets around his neck then jumps behind the wheel — buoyed by the peace of mind the ritual gives him against Covid-19. The 65-year-old’s job driving a cab in Bangkok puts him in contact daily with
PARIS: Our weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world: Shear politics When most young radicals enter politics, they cut their hair and smarten up. Not Spain’s Pablo Iglesias, the founder of left-wing Podemos. Rebel to the end, the former deputy prime minister nicknamed “el coletas” — the ponytailed one
China’s Zhurong rover touches down on Red Planet BEIJING: China’s probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing’s increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission. The
MOSCOW: Russia said Thursday it would send an actress and a director into space to make the first feature film in the cosmos and also deliver an eccentric Japanese billionaire to the International Space Station. Moscow is seeking to boost its embattled space programme, which has stagnated since the collapse
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden told Americans on Thursday that the lifting of the rule on indoor mask wearing was “a great day” in the fight against Covid-19 and that they could now “smile again”. “I think it’s a great milestone, a great day,” he said in a nationally televised address
TOKYO: Japan’s government is expected to widen a virus state of emergency Friday, just 10 weeks before the Tokyo Olympics, as campaigners submitted a petition with more than 350,000 signatures urging the Games be scrapped. With Tokyo and other areas already under emergency orders until the end of May, three
SAN FRANCISCO: An update to the software powering some billion iPhones around the world kicks in Monday with an enhanced privacy feature critics fear will roil the internet advertising world. Apple will begin requiring app makers to tell users what tracking information they want to gather and get permission to
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