Kaylee McKeown continued her excellent form, swimming the fifth fastest 50 metres backstroke of all time to win the Australian Open Championships on Friday, where Ariarne Titmus also impressed.The 22-year-old had already set Australian records in both the 200 and 400 metres individual medleys in the last two days, and…
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SINGAPORE: There were more than 70 reports of victims receiving extortion letters with manipulated obscene photos of themselves since March, police said on Friday (Apr 19). The letters, which were sent by post to the victims’ workplaces, contained pictures of the victims’ faces superimposed onto obscene photographs of a man and a woman purportedly in an “intimate and compromising position”, read the news release. Based on preliminary investigations, the victims’ photographs and workplace addresses appear…
THOUSANDS EVACUATED Houses elsewhere could be seen lying empty and electricity was out in parts…
The United States and Britain have unveiled fresh sanctions against Iran. The US Treasury Department…
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SINGAPORE — Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Friday (April 19) criticised a commentary by British publication The Economist which he said could not “resist sneering” at Singapore’s political leadership handover. The weekly newspaper’s commentary, published on Thursday, noted that Singapore has had “only” three leaders in its…
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiralling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran’s attack on Israel could devolve into a “full-scale regional conflict”. Guterres also said Israel’s military offensive on Hamas militants in…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has for a decade called for breakthroughs to be made to untangle China from what it called “stranglehold technologies” – a total of 35 of them, seven of which are related to semiconductors, according to state media. In a widely circulated video on Chinese social media…
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If you think nothing of working out before heading to the office, you deserve serious respect for your superhuman dedication to fitness. But for us mere mortals who sometimes need that extra push to hit the gym, blasting our favorite tunes can provide the added motivation we need. When scouting…
