Australia-bound Tesla Model Y electric cars sent back to China
A ship that’s understood to be carrying a large number of Tesla Model Y electric SUVs has been ordered to head back to China as a plague of stink bugs has been found onboard. The Glovis Caravel, which is understood to have a capacity of 6500 vehicles, had been circling off the coast of Brisbane […]
DMW opens hotline for quake-hit Japan OFWs
THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Monday, January 1, 2023, quickly activated a hotline and help desk for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that have been affected by the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that rocked Japan on Monday. In an advisory, the DMW said it is making available the hotline and help desk also for the […]
China’s many systemic problems dominate its outlook for 2024
There were contrasting reactions when the US rating agency Moody’s downgraded China’s A1 credit rating outlook from stable to negative last month. Financial markets, focused on the economy, paid it barely any attention. Chinese state media, looking at the politics, saw red. Global Times called it “biased and unprofessional”. A few days later, the Ministry […]
What voters need from Sinn Féin in 2024 is less attack dog, more vision
2024 will be a bumper year for elections. More than 40 per cent of the world’s population will hold national elections across more than 40 countries. States including the US, India, the UK (probably), Pakistan, South Africa, Russia, Bangladesh, Algeria, Senegal, Rwanda and Iran will go to the polls. Taiwan will also hold elections. Mexico’s […]
Five sports stars to watch in 2024
Jake O’Brien (Soccer) If you were to scroll down through the various messages from fans on the official Olympique Lyonnais social media sites, you’d get a clear idea of how those supporters of the French Ligue 1 club have adopted the young Cork man. “Le patron de la défense” – the boss of the defence […]
Space is the new frontier: Time for India to increase strategic focus
Space is already emerging as the next great frontier, where geostrategic play is unfolding at an accelerating pace. Led by scientific prowess and human quest and endeavour, it today impacts all activities on planet earth. More importantly, all major powers are not only building capabilities to harness the great potential of space but evolving means […]
What’s at stake in 2024
CNN — America and the world could look glaringly different by January 1, 2025, depending on the outcome of a momentous crush of conflicts, pivotal global elections and geopolitical forces that will create critical moments in the year ahead. A fateful White House race will again put democracy on the line in the United States. […]
HEADLINES: World rings in 2024 amid global tumult | Jan. 1, 2024
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Maersk pauses Red Sea sailings after Houthi attack on container ship
Iranian-backed Houthi militants attacked a Maersk container vessel with missiles and small boats, prompting the company to pause all sailing through the Red Sea for 48 hours, Maersk said on Sunday. The crew of the Maersk Hangzhou crew was safe and there was no indication of fire onboard the vessel, which was fully manoeuvrable and […]
How 2023 became the year Congress forgot to ban TikTok
Banning TikTok in the US seemed almost inevitable at the start of 2023. The previous year saw a trickle of legislative actions against the short-form video app, after dozens of individual states barred TikTok from government devices in late 2022 over security concerns. At the top of the new year, the US House followed suit, […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023
A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large […]
A call for Damp January – or why connected people are happy people
Open this photo in gallery: The positive social aspect of drinking is represented in this 19th century painting by Peder Severin Krøyer: Hip, Hip, Hurrah! Artists’ Party, Skagen.Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden Benjamin Leszcz is a writer and the co-founder of Wilda, an alcoholic beverage company based in Prince Edward County, Ont. On Ikaria, a […]
The best films of 2023 … you may not have seen
You Hurt My Feelings You Hurt My Feelings was a big hit at Sundance 12 months ago. Of course it was – Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are the crack squad of Woody Allen-ish middle-class Manhattan first world problem cerebral comedy-dramas. But it was released way too early in the US, and then way too […]
The year in World Cups: how Springboks won rugby’s battle of fine margins
It is a relatively little-known fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a keen rugby fan. He travelled to France, South Africa and New Zealand to watch games and, in 1924, wrote in his autobiography that he regarded rugby as “the best collective sport” because of its physical and mental […]
The year in World Cups: how Springboks won rugby’s battle of fine margins
It is a relatively little-known fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a keen rugby fan. He travelled to France, South Africa and New Zealand to watch games and, in 1924, wrote in his autobiography that he regarded rugby as “the best collective sport” because of its physical and mental […]
The amazing world of sport 2023: highs, lows and a 211-shot rally
In a year packed with historic World Cup events and incredible achievements, sport also excelled throughout 2023 in giving us some more unlikely moments of entertainment. Settle in as we guide you through our review of the amazing world of sport. The badminton epic Thinaah Muralitharan and Pearly Tan survived a 211-shot marathon rally against […]
Stock market today: Wall Street drifts mostly higher as a strong year for markets winds down
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a slightly higher close as trading remained light on this holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% Wednesday. The Dow rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Markets are holding on to modest gains for the week so far, and the S&P 500 is coming off […]
Stock market today: Wall Street drifts mostly higher as a strong year for markets winds down
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a slightly higher close as trading remained light on this holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% Wednesday. The Dow rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Markets are holding on to modest gains for the week so far, and the S&P 500 is coming off […]
JA Solar Donates Supplies to Quake-hit Areas in Gansu Province
BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — On December 18, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Jishishan County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Northwest China’s Gansu Province, causing significant casualties and property damage. JA Solar acted quickly to donate 400,000 RMB worth of supplies to support the relief work in Gansu. On December 22, JA Solar commissioned […]
Unique village at the crossroads of Cornwall is the ‘perfect place to live’
With a housing crisis in Cornwall, on top of an economic and energy emergency, and much talk of second homes and holiday lets hollowing out the heart of the county, you’d be mistaken for expecting our villages to be bereft of community, life and hope. Though that might be starting to be the case in […]
Whisky and the coal mining ‘shack’: Taiwan election is not only about China
As Taiwan’s election approaches next month, it is not only fraught ties with China competing for electors’ attention. The candidates are exchanging blows over everything from property disputes to whether drinking whisky is out of touch, in a raucous and freewheeling display of the island’s democracy. Taiwan’s Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary election will define […]
FEATURE-Kenya rights groups say move to block phone fraud is surveillance
* Kenyan government to roll out phone tracking system * Technology will track counterfeit phones and curb fraud * Activists say it is a trojan horse for state surveillance By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI, Dec 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenyan digital rights campaigners warn a phone tracking programme the government said it was pressing ahead […]
Restaurateur and TV chef Bill Granger has died in hospital in London
In short: Bill Granger, the celebrity chef known for his breakfast creations, has died in the UK aged 54, his family has announced. In a career spanning decades, Granger worked around the world starring in five cooking shows and publishing 14 books. Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson are among the celebrity chefs to pay tribute, […]