Jurgen Klopp laments missed chances as Liverpool lose Premier League lead in Everton derby game LIVERPOOL: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was left to rue a number of missed chances from his side in a 0-0 draw at Everton on Sunday that allowed Manchester City to maintain top spot in the Premier League.Mohamed Salah passed up…
DUBAI: Egypt’s EFG Hermes is working on a $500 million merger and acquisition in Saudi Arabia and expects more deals to come out of the kingdom this year, especially from the private sector, its head of investment banking told Reuters.Saudi Arabia has made attracting greater foreign investment a key part of its economic Vision 2030…
PARIS: Volvo Cars said on Monday it will introduce a 180 km per hour (112 mph) speed limiter on all new vehicles as the Swedish automaker seeks to burnish its safety credentials and meet a pledge to eliminate passenger fatalities by 2020.While Volvo, whose XC90 flagship SUV currently has a top speed of 212 km/h,…
BEIJING: A Chinese government spokesman took issue Monday with US claims that telecoms giant Huawei Technologies poses a threat to other countries’ information security because of Chinese laws.The comments by spokesman Zhang Yesui ahead of the annual session of China’s rubber-stamp parliament followed news that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested by Canada at…
DUBAI: Egypt’s EFG Hermes is working on a $500 million merger and acquisition in Saudi Arabia and expects more deals to come out of the kingdom this year, especially from the private sector, its head of investment banking told Reuters.Saudi Arabia has made attracting greater foreign investment a key part of its economic Vision 2030…
Barclays investors would have gone ‘completely nuts’ over secret Qatar fees, court hears LONDON: Fellow investors in Barclays bank would have gone “completely nuts” if they knew about secret payments made to Qatar in its multibillion-dollar bailout of the UK lender, a London court heard on Monday. The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) alleges that…
MARSEILLE: French police are facing a new form of weapon during “yellow vest” protests — bags of fecal matter thrown bomb-like by demonstrators.On Saturday “bags filled with faeces were thrown at police and exploded. Three policemen were soaked through with it,” Rudy Manna from the Alliance police trade union in the southern port city of…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan fully reopened its airspace on Monday, authorities said, days after it closed its skies to all air travel, leaving thousands stranded worldwide as tensions with nuclear arch-rival India soared.The decision to close the airspace came last Wednesday after a rare aerial dogfight between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir ignited…
BEIJING: China accused two detained Canadians on Monday of acting together to steal state secrets, just days after Canada announced it will proceed with a US extradition request for a senior Chinese tech executive.China arrested the two Canadians on Dec. 10 in what was widely seen as an attempt to pressure Canada to release Meng…
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi man was hanged in a jail outside Dhaka over the murder of a Saudi diplomat in 2012, an official said Monday.Khalaf Al-Ali, 45, who worked in the consular section of the Saudi Arabian embassy, was shot in the capital’s diplomatic zone in front of his rented apartment. He later died in hospital.Police…
Starving Hodeidah where death stalks streets, as food for millions sits in storage DUBAI: A woman rummaging through garbage for scraps of food; a father pushing his skeletal teenage son in a wheelbarrow searching for help – a tragic snapshot of the daily scenes on Hodeidah’s streets of death.Millions of Yemenis are on the brink…
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court accepted an indictment seeking life sentences against businessman and rights activist Osman Kavala and 15 others over the 2013 Gezi protests, Kavala’s lawyer said on Monday.Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Istanbul in 2013 to protest against a plan to build a replica of an Ottoman barracks on Gezi park…
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is on track to develop its rail networks as part of a GCC-wide push to ramp up regional transportation, with the high-speed Haramain railway now operating at near-full capacity, Riyadh’s Metro almost complete and another 800km of track, along with sleeping coaches, added to the Kingdom’s North-South railway.Such projects are helping the country move toward…
TOKYO: The lawyer for former Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday said his team would pursue a different legal strategy from the ousted executive’s previous team in defending him against charges of financial misconduct. At a media briefing, Junichiro Hironaka said the new team he was heading would not be limited to…
TOKYO: The lawyer for former Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday said his team would pursue a different legal strategy from the ousted executive’s previous team in defending him against charges of financial misconduct. At a media briefing, Junichiro Hironaka said the new team he was heading would not be limited to…
WASHINGTON: The US and China appear close to a deal that would roll back US tariffs on at least $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, as Beijing makes pledges on structural economic changes and eliminates retaliatory tariffs on US goods, a source briefed on negotiations said on Sunday.US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi…
ANKARA: Turkish inflation has dropped below 20 percent for the first time since August last year, reaching 19.67 percent in February, official statistics showed Monday.Consumer prices had been falling since a 15-year high in October, but inflation rose in January and reached an annual rate of 20.35 percent from 20.30 percent in December.The highest monthly…
ANKARA: Turkish inflation has dropped below 20 percent for the first time since August last year, reaching 19.67 percent in February, official statistics showed Monday.Consumer prices had been falling since a 15-year high in October, but inflation rose in January and reached an annual rate of 20.35 percent from 20.30 percent in December.The highest monthly…
NEW DELHI: As tempers cool after an alarming confrontation between India and Pakistan, analysts say their leaders have emerged stronger — with Narendra Modi burnishing his nationalist credentials and Imran Khan cast as a peacemaker.Some 400,000 people have signed petitions for Khan, the former playboy cricketer and prime minister since August, to get a Nobel…
JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities warned Monday that up to 100 people could still be trapped and feared dead inside a collapsed illegal gold mine despite a painstaking rescue effort that has so far plucked 19 people alive from the rubble, but also seen nine deaths.Search teams at the unlicensed mine on Sulawesi island have been hampered…
