VIENTIANE: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday attacked China's “escalating and illegal actions” in the South China Sea, hours before he was due to hold talks with Beijing's top diplomat at a regional meeting in Laos. Blinken is in the capital Vientiane for a meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign … Read more
ROCESTER: Jon Rahm is used to being in contention after most of his rounds at LIV Golf this season. But for the first time since entering the league, he has an absolute lead. Thanks to a bogey-free 8-under 63, Rahm is two strokes ahead of Abraham Ancer and Andy Ogletree after the first round at … Read more
California's largest active wildfire exploded Friday night, growing rapidly amid dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to contain the danger.The intensity and dramatic spread of the fire in the park led firefighters to unwelcome comparisons to the monster campfire that raged in nearby Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and burning … Read more
ROCESTER: Jon Rahm is used to being in contention after most of his rounds at LIV Golf this season. But for the first time since entering the league, he has an absolute lead. Thanks to a bogey-free 8-under 63, Rahm is two strokes ahead of Abraham Ancer and Andy Ogletree after the first round at … Read more
Recipes for success: Chef Hadi Saroufim offers advice, shares a recipe for orange cake DUBAI: Hadi Saroufim, head chef of Dubai's Beirut-import Bar Du Port, has been cooking since he was 10, but he really fell in love with the culinary world once he started training in a professional kitchen. “The more I worked in … Read more
California's largest active wildfire exploded Friday night, growing rapidly amid dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to contain the danger.The intensity and dramatic spread of the fire in the park led firefighters to unwelcome comparisons to the monster campfire that raged in nearby Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and burning … Read more
PRISTINA: Amid a sea of denim shorts, selfies, sequins and booming bass lines, the setting could easily be mistaken for Coachella or Glastonbury. But Pristina's Sunny Hill festival is helping to turn Kosovo into a popular destination during Europe's summer festival season, thanks in large part to its founder: Dua Lipa. For years, Kosovo has … Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuela's future is at stake. Voters will decide on Sunday whether to re-elect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been marred by crisis, or give the opposition a chance to fulfill a promise to reverse the ruling party's policies that have caused economic collapse and forced millions to emigrate.Historically fragmented … Read more
The young Aussie revealed the reality of owning an apartment, revealing that there are some “crazy fees” involved.
WASHINGTON: Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated, the FBI confirmed on Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president in the ear, and is trying to clarify conflicting accounts of what caused the former president's injury after a gunman opened fire at a rally in Pennsylvania. .“What struck … Read more
