Smith achieved this remarkable feat during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Wednesday, joining an elite group of Australian legends, including Ricky Ponting, Allan Border, and Steve Waugh. Overall, Smith is the fifth-fastest batter to reach 10,000 runs, with Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, and Kumar Sangakkara leading the list at 195 innings. […]
The former Syrian president, a key Russian ally in the Middle East, fled to Moscow last year after being ousted in a lightning rebel offensive that ended five decades of rule by the Assad family. Russia sent its first high-level delegation to the war-torn country on Tuesday, with Moscow keen to retain two military bases […]
“Any resettlement plans, the idea that the citizens of Gaza will be expelled from there to Egypt or Jordan, is unacceptable,” Scholz said, referring at a campaign event in Berlin to Trump’s comments. He reiterated his support for a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live peacefully side by side, adding that it must be […]
The Ukrainian leader responded by saying that Putin was “afraid” of negotiations and was using “cynical tricks” to prolong the nearly three-year conflict. US President Donald Trump has put pressure on both sides to end the fighting since assuming office on January 20, threatening tougher sanctions on Russia while claiming that Zelensky is ready to […]
On Monday, Nvidia lost about 17% or close to $593 billion in market value – a record one-day loss for any company, while shares of companies in semiconductor, power, and infrastructure companies exposed to AI collectively shed more than $1 trillion. Monday’s selloff, which hammered many tech stocks across the globe, was prompted by the […]
In a call with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Rubio “stressed the United States is deeply troubled by escalation of the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC, particularly the fall of Goma to the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group,” a State Department statement said. The new top US diplomat “urged an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for […]
The “deferred resignation program” would allow federal employees to remain on the payroll through Sept. 30 but without having to work in person and possibly having their duties reduced or eliminated in the meantime, according to an email sent to federal employees and seen by Reuters. The email gives federal employees until Feb. 6 to […]
Drone footage showed millions of devotees, shoulder to shoulder, arriving in the pre-dawn dark at the temporary township in Prayagraj for the holy dip at the confluence of three rivers, the Ganga, Yamuna, and the mythical, invisible Saraswati. Video and photographs after the stampede showed bodies being taken away on stretchers and people sitting on […]
Manila has been seeking to boost defence ties in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in the face of China’s growing confidence in asserting its claims over the hotspot South China Sea. A first round of talks was held in Manila on Thursday between the Philippines and New Zealand’s defence departments, they said in a joint […]
According to a statement released by the Royal Court, the funeral prayer of Prince Mohammed bin will be performed at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh on Wednesday following the Asr prayer. King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz’s second son, Prince Mohammed bin Fahd, was born in Riyadh in 1950 and received his school […]
