BEIJING: China is preparing countermeasures against fresh US import tariffs set to take effect on Tuesday, China's state-controlled Global Times reported, raising the prospect of an all-out trade war between the world's top two economies.

TAYYIP Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkiye's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and a chance to resolve key regional security concerns.

PALM BEACH: Jake Knapp had a strange round on Saturday in the Cognizant Classic, but he was back in first place when it concluded.

TEHRAN: Iran’s parliament sacked the country’s finance minister on Sunday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging currency, state television reported.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO: Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza today as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.

FOR years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has shut down several illegal stalls in an operation at Bazaria Wangsa Maju.

HANOI: Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on Saturday the government wanted to rapidly issue a licence for Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite internet in the country under a pilot scheme.

KUALA LUMPUR: The police have seized a total of RM2.86 billion worth of goods, and detained 246 individuals in a large-scale operation carried out on Feb 15.

SINGAPORE: South Korea’s Kim A Lim defied windy conditions at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore to lead the HSBC Women’s World Championship by one stroke from England’s Charley Hull after today’s opening round.

SAKHIR: Title favourite Lando Norris was fastest for Formula One champions McLaren after a power cut disrupted the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain on Wednesday.

SAN SEBASTIAN: Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said his defender Raul Asencio was “affected” by chants calling for him to die on Wednesday at Real Sociedad in the Copa del Rey.

MYAWADDY, Myanmar: Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.

THE prevalence of Parkinson’s has doubled in the last 25 years according to the World Health Organisation and in 2019, there were over 8.5 million individuals living with this condition which presently has no cure.

HOUSTON: An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, authorities said Wednesday, marking the first US fatality from the highly contagious disease in nearly a decade as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed a growing outbreak.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the European Union was born to “screw” the United States, laying bare his hostility to the longtime US partner as he detailed new tariffs.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry has defended the decision to place the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) under its jurisdiction, saying that this was a matter of public order.

“IT’S just the flu”. We often hear someone say this when they are under the weather.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump opened yet another front on Tuesday in his assault on global trade norms, ordering a probe into potential new tariffs on copper imports to rebuild US production of a metal critical to electric vehicles, military hardware, the power grid and many consumer goods.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has reiterated its call for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, emphasising that it remains the only absolute guarantee against their use.