World number one Aryna Sabalenka saved 12 break points to survive her Cincinnati opener against Czech Marketa Vondrousova 7-5 6-1 on Saturday, as the men’s defending champion Jannik Sinner cruised past Colombian qualifier Daniel Galan 6-1 6-1.Sabalenka, who had a first-round bye, had not played since her semi-final defeat at…
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WASHINGTON :Bo Hines, who headed Republican President Donald Trump’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said on Saturday he was leaving his current role and returning to the private sector.Late last month, a cryptocurrency working group led by Hines and including several administration officials outlined the Trump administration’s stance on market-defining crypto legislation and called on the U.S. securities regulator to create new rules specific to digital assets.Shortly after taking office in January, Trump had…
GENEVA: Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were…
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SINGAPORE: A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a passenger’s bag in the business class section of a flight to Singapore. The police said they were alerted to the case at about 5.30am on Friday (Aug 8), adding that the flight was en route from Dubai to Singapore. Preliminary…
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BANGKOK: Three Thai soldiers were injured on Saturday (Aug 9) in a landmine explosion near the kingdom’s border with Cambodia, two days after both countries met in Kuala Lumpur for talks hailed as “constructive and positive”. The explosion severed a soldier’s left ankle. Another soldier injured his arm and back,…
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WASHINGTON :Four astronauts from NASA’s Crew-10 mission departed the International Space Station on Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, heading for a splashdown off the U.S. West Coast on Saturday morning after a five-month crew rotation mission at the orbiting lab.U.S. astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the Crew-10 commander,…
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Going for a walk is one of the simplest workouts, but it can have powerful health impacts. Walking has been linked to improved mental and cardiovascular health, and it can be effective for managing back pain. But not all walking is equally effective. A method nicknamed “Japanese walking” on social…
