New Zealand

Buttler to miss Royals’ opening game due to quarantine requirement

7:32 pm September 20, 2020

Dubai: England wicket-keeper batsman Jos Buttler will miss Rajasthan Royals’ opening IPL game against Chennai Super Kings on Tuesday as he is in the middle of his mandatory quarantine period, having arrived here with his family “I’m unfortunately going to miss the first match for Rajasthan because I’m going to be doing my quarantine period […]

IPL 13: Cummins excited he doesn’t have to bowl to Brendon McCullum

7:25 pm September 20, 2020

Abu Dhabi: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pacer Pat Cummins, who joined the team recently, is excited as he does not have to bowl to former New Zealand batsman and head coach Brendon McCullum. Cummins was part of the Australian squad for the limited-overs series against England. Australia won the ODI series by 2-1 after losing […]

Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan packing powerful winds

8:41 pm September 5, 2020

Tokyo: A powerful typhoon, the second in a week, was barreling toward the Okinawa islands in southern Japan on Saturday, prompting warnings about torrential rainfall and fierce wind gusts. Weather officials have cautioned about Typhoon Haishen for the last several days, urging people to brace for what could be a record storm and be ready […]

Japan bracing for dangerously powerful typhoon

4:59 pm September 4, 2020

Tokyo: Japan is bracing for a dangerously powerful typhoon approaching its southern regions this weekend on the heels of an earlier storm that injured dozens of people in the country and on the Korean Peninsula. Typhoon Haishen, or Sea God in Chinese, could bring nearly unprecedentedly severe rain, rough waves and high tides to Okinawa and Kyushu by early […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

8:42 pm September 3, 2020

London: An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it begins the probe. The panel’s co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former […]