PARIS, Aug 5 — Novak Djokovic yesterday described beating Carlos Alcaraz to claim the Olympic singles gold medal at the fifth attempt as the biggest achievement of his career.

SYDNEY, Aug 5 — Australia today raised its terror threat level to “probable” from “possible”, citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50 per cent chance of the planning of an onshore attack in the next 12 months.

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 — The United States Commerce Department is expected to propose barring China software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks, according to sources briefed on the matter.

SINGAPORE, Aug 5 — Oil prices hovered at eight-month lows today as fears of a recession in the United States, the world’s top oil consumer, offset concerns that escalating tensions in the Middle East may affect supplies from the largest producing region.

PARIS, Aug 4 — Paris Olympics organisers have cancelled today’s swimming training session for the triathlon mixed relay event after recent heavy rain affected water quality levels in the Seine.

LIVERPOOL, Aug 4 — Violent disorder swept across several British cities yesterday, injuring police and damaging property in the most widespread rioting in the country for 13 years, following the murder of three young girls in northwest England.

GAZA CITY, Aug 4 — Hamas announced yesterday its leaders have begun a process to select a new political bureau head following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran.

ANKARA, Aug 3 — Airlines from the United States, Europe and Asia have suspended flights to Israel and Lebanon, citing security concerns following recent developments in the Middle East.

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 — The plea deals with the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and two other defendants have been withdrawn, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday, reported German news agency (dpa).

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 — The US Secret Service's acting director said on Friday that local police in Pennsylvania warned that there was a man with a gun on a roof before the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump, but the message did not reach its agents on time.

ISTANBUL, Aug 3 — Two United States (US) agencies filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children’s privacy laws, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 — US Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough Democratic convention delegates to secure the party's presidential nomination, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday.

ANKARA, Aug 3 — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday called for an urgent investigation into Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners, Anadolu Agency reported.

PARIS, Aug 2 — The French authorities have opened an investigation into death threats and cyber harassment targeting the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony's artistic director Thomas Jolly, said the Paris Prosecutor's office today.

BEIJING, Aug 2 — Rescuers in China scrambled today to locate dozens of people still missing a week after the year's most powerful typhoon roared into the southern province of Hunan, while emergency workers rushed to seal breached dykes on swollen rivers.

BURBANK, Aug 2 — Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket yesterday in front of Warner Bros Games and said artificial intelligence (AI) was a threat to their professions.

JAKARTA, Aug 2 — New rules issued this week by Indonesia will make the police the only authority allowed to give the go-ahead for abortions for rape victims, drawing criticism from rights activists who said the changes were regressive.

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 — United States President Joe Biden said yesterday the killing of Palestinian Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh was not helpful for reaching a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza.

HONG KONG, Aug 2 — China’s state media, athletes and netizens rallied to support Olympic swimming champion Pan Zhanle after critics, including an Australian swim commentator, said his world record swim in the 100m freestyle is not “humanly possible”.

VIENNA, Aug 2 — The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of Opec+, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies, yesterday confirmed the oil-producer group’s commitment to its current output policy, reported Xinhua.