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UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations on Monday (Feb 6) that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a “wider war”. The secretary-general laid out his priorities for the year in a gloomy speech to the United Nations General Assembly that focused on…

Society has created this standard of domestic perfection. Marie Kondo reminds us that the things, people and experiences in our life are gifts to be appreciated and enjoyed, says Dr Chloe Lim, a mother of three, career coach, scientist and author.

In the wrong hands, generative artificial intelligence could do untold damage, says this writer.

SAN JOSE: China apologised to Costa Rica for a balloon that flew over its territory, the Central American country’s government said on Monday (Feb 6), after a separate suspected Chinese spy balloon travelling over the United States sparked a major political and diplomatic spat. A US military jet shot down that balloon just off its…

The construction of protective structures for key facilities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeast Ukraine is nearing completion, Russia’s state TASS news agency reported on Tuesday (Feb 7), citing an adviser to the head of Russia’s nuclear plants operator. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, was captured by Russian troops in March of…

TROUBLE AHEAD Here’s the good news. Inflation, which just a few months ago seemed a near-existential threat to the Biden presidency, is steadily ticking downward. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are starting to flow out into programs passed under Biden to spur high-tech manufacturing and repair infrastructure. On Friday, new figures showed joblessness hitting…

ISLAMABAD: Wikipedia was back online in Pakistan on Tuesday (Feb 7), after the country’s prime minister ordered authorities to lift a block imposed on the online encyclopedia over “blasphemous content”. Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, and Facebook and YouTube have previously been banned for publishing content deemed sacrilegious. Minister of Information and…

“EVERY MINUTE, EVERY HOUR” Turkish authorities say some 13.5 million people were affected in an area spanning roughly 450km from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east, and 300km from Malatya in the north to Hatay in the south. Syrian authorities have reported deaths as far south as Hama, some 100 km from…

The Singapore Red Cross has also pledged US$100,000 in humanitarian aid.

PARIS: Fresh strikes hit trains, schools and refineries in France on Tuesday (Feb 7) over an unpopular pension reform pushed by President Emmanuel Macron, with nationwide protests planned for later in the day. A third day of union-backed demonstrations since Jan 19 is set to test momentum for the protest movement which has vowed to…