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SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea yesterday described its record-breaking blitz of missile launches last week as a “just counteraction” to the biggest-ever United States (US)-South Korea air exercises. Pyongyang has long condemned joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington, calling them rehearsals for an invasion – but it has appeared especially sensitive to air force […]
Prajit Pokharel ANN/THE KAHTMANDU POST – I ran into a long-lost childhood friend at a bookshop in Jamal a few days ago. Although it was our first encounter in over 12 years, we promptly acknowledged each other. Prakrit and I went to the same school until grade 4. We watched the 2010 FIFA World Cup […]
AP – One of the World Cup stadiums in Qatar is named after the Persian Gulf country’s international dialing code – 974 – and another is called ‘Education City’. They’re unusual names that hardly sound like they have links to football, and after the tournament many no longer will. Qatar built seven of its eight […]
CNA – It’s no joke. Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has put fresh wind in the sails of dogecoin, the meme cryptocurrency he catapulted to fame. Dogecoin’s price doubled after the Tesla tycoon completed the USD44 billion deal. It was trading at about USD0.07 on October 27 before Musk tweeted “the bird is freed” to […]
COLOMBO (XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s tourism earnings in the first 10 months this year surpassed USD1 billion, according to the latest data from the country’s central bank. The data showed that the monthly tourism earnings stood at USD75.6 million in October. Official reserves of Sri Lanka were USD1.7 billion by the end of October, a […]