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Brazil drops swimming coach Volkers at Australia’s request CULTURE

Brazil drops swimming coach Volkers at Australia’s request

The Brazilian Olympic Committee will exclude Australian swimming coach Scott Volkers from Brazil’s team at the Rio Olympics in August at the request of Australia, where he faced child sexual abuse charges a decade ago, a committee official said yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Leicester looking to buy 3 or 4 new players CULTURE

Leicester looking to buy 3 or 4 new players

English Premier League champions Leicester City will probably need to buy three or four players over the summer to compete in the European Champions League, vice chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha told Reuters yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
WHO calls emergency meeting on yellow fever outbreak INTERNATIONAL

WHO calls emergency meeting on yellow fever outbreak

The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting Thursday on the yellow fever outbreak that has hit hardest in Angola but risks spreading further if vaccinations are not ramped up.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS exploiting Yemen chaos as fighters pursue peace ASIA

IS exploiting Yemen chaos as fighters pursue peace

Islamic State efforts to exploit chaos may have have brought Saudi-backed forces and Iran-allied Houthis ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Ready for CBI probe into journalist’s murder: CM INTERNATIONAL

Ready for CBI probe into journalist’s murder: CM

Protests continue across Bihar over the killing

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Japan vows to cooperate in French Olympic probe INTERNATIONAL

Japan vows to cooperate in French Olympic probe

Japan vowed to cooperate with a French probe into $2mn allegedly paid to help Tokyo secure the 2020 Olympics, as the son of ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack denied receiving the money.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Spain’s Podemos forms alliance with far-left rival INTERNATIONAL

Spain’s Podemos forms alliance with far-left rival

Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos has formed an alliance with its smaller far-left rival Izquierda Unida (IU)

4:45 AM November 25 2016
FBI suspects insiders in $81mn Bangladesh central bank theft INTERNATIONAL

FBI suspects insiders in $81mn Bangladesh central bank theft

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspects the computer hacking theft of $81mn from Bangladesh's central bank was in part an inside job, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Japan growth to be paltry on soft consumer spending in Q1 ECONOMY

Japan growth to be paltry on soft consumer spending in Q1

Japan’s economy is expected to have barely grown in the first quarter, a Reuters poll showed yesterday, as stagnant consumer spending and wobbly financial markets keep expectations for more government stimulus measures alive.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Raising awareness about accomplished women in GCC SPORT

Raising awareness about accomplished women in GCC

Women power got the sweeping canvas that it deserves at a thought-stirring event organised by the Qatar Together youth initiative and the Qatar Professional Women’s Network (QPWN) at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) auditorium last week.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Barcelona, Real Madrid set up final day showdown CULTURE

Barcelona, Real Madrid set up final day showdown

Barcelona are one win away from retaining their La Liga title after Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar all scored as they thrashed Espanyol 5-0 in the Catalan derby yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Outcry grows over ‘air strikes’ on Syrian camp ASIA

Outcry grows over ‘air strikes’ on Syrian camp

Condemnation mounted yesterday over deadly air strikes on a camp for displaced people in northern Syria...

4:45 AM November 25 2016