MUSIC icon Paul McCartney has become the UK’s first billionaire musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published on Friday, despite the country recording its largest fall in the billionaire count in the guide’s 36-year history. The 81-year-old’s fortune was boosted by “strong touring, a valuable back catalogue and
MOSCOW: Russia’s economy grew 5.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2024, official statistics published Friday showed, as President Vladimir Putin denied military spending on his Ukraine offensive was reaching unsustainable levels. The Kremlin has heavily militarised Russia’s economy since sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022, with the
PORTO ALEGRE (Brazil): Teams raced against the clock on Thursday to deliver aid to flood-stricken communities in southern Brazil before the arrival of new storms forecast to batter the region once again. Some 400 municipalities have been affected by the worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio
MALMO (Sweden): Thousands of demonstrators, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, marched through the streets of Malmo, Sweden on Thursday to protest against Israel’s participation in Eurovision, an AFP journalist observed. This year’s Eurovision song contest opened in the southern city of Malmo on Tuesday, with the grand finale Saturday, but
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned his nuclear forces were “always” on alert and added that Moscow would not tolerate any Western threats, in an address at the annual Victory Day parade. In a defiant speech on Red Square before thousands of soldiers dressed in ceremonial attire, Putin heaped
GAZA STRIP (Palestinian Territories): Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having secured a deal. AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip on early Friday witnessed artillery strikes on Rafah on the territory’s southern border with Egypt,
YANGON (Myanmar): Myanmar’s junta has suspended the issuing of permits for men to work abroad, it said, weeks after introducing a military conscription law that led to thousands trying to leave the country. The junta, which is struggling to crush widespread armed opposition to its rule, in February said it
HONG KONG: A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning. AC exhaust units are a common feature of urban landscapes in many parts of Asia, clinging like limpets to towering apartment blocks in Hong Kong or tucked in a cross formation
LIMA: At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday. Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the
BANGKOK: In Bangkok’s central Siam Square, Suriyan Wongwan sweats while he waits to collect the food that he will deliver by motorbike as Thailand bakes through a heatwave. “I’m afraid of getting heatstroke,” the 51-year-old told AFP as the mercury hit 37 degrees Celsius, with humidity pushing the “real feel”
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