The delta variant is challenging China's costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the country need a less disruptive approach.
As the highly contagious (...)
The US 4x100m relay squad were left digesting another Olympic debacle on Thursday, failing to qualify for the final after a performance branded a "total embarrassment" by Carl Lewis.
The American men arrived in Tokyo as favourites after a world (...)
BOXING
MEN'S FEATHERWEIGHT
Albert Batyrgaziev of the Russian team won the gold medal in men's featherweight boxing, beating American Duke Ragan in a meeting of two professional fighters chasing Olympic glory.
Batyrgaziev won the bout 3:2, cruising (...)
Mercedes-Benz Egypt announced on Wednesday that it had appointed Gerd Bitterlich as its new president and CEO, succeeding Thomas Zorn.
Zorn will assume a new role with Daimler at global head office
Bitterlich, a German citizen, has more than 30 (...)
Sandra Sanchez of Spain has won the first Olympic gold medal in karate, beating Japan's Kiyou Shimizu in the final matchup in women's kata.
The 39-year-old Sanchez scored a 28.06 in the final bout, her screams echoing off the walls at the Budokan as (...)
In a speech at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, US President Joe Biden said on 27 July that Chinese President Xi Jinping was in "deadly earnest" about China's becoming the most powerful military force in the world by 2040 as well (...)
Xie Siyi and Wang Zongyuan gave China another 1-2 finish in Olympic diving, claiming gold and silver in men's 3-meter springboard Tuesday.
The Chinese divers held the top two spots after both the preliminaries and the semifinals, and it was more of (...)
The interest of Egyptian companies and international firms headquartered in Egypt in the African market has been growing, with many of them now wanting either to venture into the African market or to increase the volume of their operations across (...)
فازت شركة إريكسون السويدية بنسبة 3% في عقد مشترك للراديو 5G من شركة China Telecom و China Unicom، وفقًا لمصادر مطلعة.
هواوي تطلق أحدث هواتفها بدون خدمات الجيل الخامس
نوكيا تفشل في الاستحواذ
لم تحصل نوكيا، التي كان من المتوقع أن تستحوذ على حصة (...)
Marcell Jacobs won the men's Olympic 100-meter race Sunday night, crossing the line in 9.8 seconds to bring the marquee sprint gold to Italy for the first time.
Even in a race with no clear favorites, Jacobs was a surprise. He topped America's Fred (...)
The 100 meters at the Olympics is the event that turns sprinters into kings: Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt.
On one of the most unusual nights the sport has ever seen, fans, experts, and even the racers themselves needed a lineup card.
The race (...)
A roundup of gold medals from Saturday, July 31, at the Tokyo Games:
ARCHERY
MEN'S INDIVIDUAL
Mete Gazoz of Turkey won the men's individual archery title at the Tokyo Games.
It was the first gold medal won by a country other than South Korea, which (...)
فتحت شرطة هونج كونج تحقيقا في إطلاق صيحات الاستهجان للنشيد الوطني في مركز تسوق في المدينة خلال إذاعة بث مباشر لدورة الألعاب الأوليمبية (طوكيو 2020)، حسبما أفاد راديو وتلفزيون هونج كونج (RTHK) اليوم الجمعة.
وقالت مصادر الشرطة لشبكة (RTHK) إن الحادث (...)
فتحت شرطة هونج كونج تحقيقا فى إطلاق صيحات الاستهجان للنشيد الوطنى فى مركز تسوق بالمدينة خلال إذاعة بث مباشر لدورة الألعاب الأولمبية طوكيو 2020، حسبما أفاد راديو وتليفزيون هونج كونج (RTHK) اليوم الجمعة.
وقالت مصادر الشرطة لشبكة (RTHK) ، إن الحادث وقع (...)
Germany's foreign minister is signaling growing impatience with Iran, saying that a revival of the country's frayed nuclear accord with world powers won't be possible "forever," a German magazine reported Friday.
The countries that remain parties to (...)
China's Midea Group for electronics has laid down the foundation stone at the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) in Ain Sokhna, Egypt.
In a statement on Friday, the SCZone said the new (...)
A pro-democracy protester was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison in the closely watched first prosecution under Hong Kong's national security law as the ruling Communist Party tightens control over the territory.
Tong Ying-kit, 24, was (...)
احتفل مئات الهندوسيين بمهرجان الأفاعي، الذي يُقام سنويًا، وتشمل فاعلياته الرقص مع الثعابين والتعامل معها بطريقة عفوية مثل التفافها حول أعناقهم وحملها دون خوف.
ويتم الاحتفال في الشوارع الهندية والأماكن العامة، إذ يتم المزج بين الطقوس الدينية (...)
نشرت صحيفة "ساوث تشاينا مورنينج بوست" الصينية، فيديو على صفحتها الرسمية على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي «تويتر»، يظهر به مئات الأشخاص وهم يحتفلون بمهرجان الأفاعي بالهند.
وأوضحت الصحيفة الصينية أن المئات من الهندوس قد شاركوا في مهرجان الأفاعي، الذي يتضمن (...)
North and South Korea are in talks to reopen a joint liaison office that Pyongyang demolished last year and hold a summit as part of efforts to restore relations, three South Korean government sources with knowledge of the matter said.
South Korean (...)
A nine-member Taliban delegation is on a two-day visit to China where they met the foreign minister for talks on the peace process and security issues, the group said on Wednesday.
"Politics, economy and issues related to the security of both (...)
Australia swept the men's and women's fours in the first rowing finals of the Tokyo Games, as windy conditions at the Sea Forest Parkway helped the boats set world or Olympic records in all six races Tuesday.
Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of (...)
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new push to expand business ties between U.S. companies and Africa, with a focus on clean energy, health, agribusiness and transportation infrastructure on the continent.
U.S. industry executives (...)
Kemin Industries, U.S. ingredient manufacturer for human and animal health and nutrition, plans to invest 1.8 billion Egyptian pounds ($114.7 million) in Egypt over the next three years, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
The money will go for (...)
President Joe Biden is making his first visit to an agency of the U.S. intelligence community, looking to emphasize his confidence in national security leaders after his predecessor's incendiary battles against what he often derided as the "deep (...)
