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Concacaf has opened a disciplinary investigation into Canada head coach Jesse Marsch following claims of rules violations and using offensive language during Tuesday’s 6–0 win over Honduras at the Gold Cup.The probe comes as Marsch is already serving a two‑game suspension for misconduct during a Nations League match against the U.S. in March, where he was sent off and later fined after refusing to leave the touchline and berating officials.Concacaf’s Disciplinary Committee said Wednesday it is reviewing evidence that the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and Marsch “disregarded regulations applicable to suspended match officials and used offensive language toward Concacaf match officials”…
Juneteenth has arrived, with Americans now celebrating its fifth year as a federally recognized holiday. Given its relatively new status as a federal holiday, you may be wondering whether your local stores are operating as normal. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce the Civil War was over, informing enslaved people in Texas that they were free.The majority of businesses will remain open, but there are some exceptions — including banks and the stock market.Read on to see what’s…
TOKYO/LONDON :Global stocks fell and the dollar rose on Thursday as investors, concerned over the United States’ possible entry into the Israel-Iran air war, sought safe haven assets and ditched riskier ones.President Donald Trump kept the world guessing about whether the United States would join Israel’s bombardment of Iranian nuclear sites, telling reporters outside the White House on Thursday, “I may do it. I may not do it.”The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had told senior aides he approved attack plans on Iran but was holding off on giving the final order to see if Tehran would abandon its…
Published Thu, Jun 19, 2025 · 05:46 PM[NEW DELHI] India will send the black box recovered from the recent fatally crashed Air India plane to the US for analysis, business newspaper The Economic Times reported on Thursday (Jun 19), citing people aware of the development.Indian authorities are investigating the crash of an Air India Boeing Dreamliner which last week killed 241 people on board and at least 30 on the ground, marking the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.“The recorder sustained heavy external damage from post-crash fire making it impossible to extract data in India,” the ET said, citing…
This is the first such legal action taken against a social media platform in the countryPublished Thu, Jun 19, 2025 · 04:30 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said Thursday (Jun 19) it had filed a civil suit against social network Telegram for allegedly disseminating content that could erode trust in public institutions and threaten social order. This is the first such legal action taken against a social media platform in the country, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), which filed the suit, said in a statement. Two local Telegram channels, Edisi Siasat and Edisi Khas, were “found to have published content that violated…
BRUSSELS :Alphabet’s Google faced a potential setback on Thursday as an adviser to Europe’s highest court sided with EU antitrust regulators in the company’s fight against a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.98 billion) fine levied seven years ago.The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its Android mobile operating system to block rivals. A lower tribunal endorsed the EU finding in 2022 but trimmed the fine to 4.1 billion euros, prompting Google to appeal to Europe’s top court.Advocate-General at the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Juliane Kokott, in her non-binding opinion, advised the…
IT’S hard to think of a more extraordinary business deal than Facebook’s US$19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014. Its creators were outliers. With a lean staff of just a few dozen people, they had no marketing department, no sign on the door, and had spent zero cents from their sole investor, Sequoia Capital. But WhatsApp had 450 million users, mostly outside the US. Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton also hated ads. They had spent a combined 20 years working at Yahoo!, bonding over their frustration with a business model that sucked up personal data to show us…
Published Thu, Jun 19, 2025 · 05:17 PM[JAKARTA] Indonesia’s central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market in a measured way on Thursday (Jun 19), an official said, after the rupiah had fallen to a one-month low against the US dollar.The rupiah was down by about 0.6 per cent on the day at 16,400 per dollar as of 0807 GMT, LSEG data showed.The depreciation was due to the US Federal Reserve’s decision to hold its key interest rate on Wednesday as well as rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, said Erwin Gunawan Hutapea, head of the monetary department at…
New York Times reporter Ana Swanson reports from the Los Angeles Port, the largest port in the Western Hemisphere as well as the place that first saw the signs of Trump’s tariff war. The Port of Los Angeles is significant because of our trade relationship with China in particular, which is why The Trump administration’s 145% tariffs on the country resulted in lower volume at the port. Ana Swanson explains what the port illustrates about U.S. trade and how what’s felt at the Port of Los Angeles will soon be felt by U.S. consumers.
[TOKYO] Japan’s government plans to cut sales of super-long bonds by about 10 per cent from its original plan in a rare revision to its bond programme for the current fiscal year, trimming overall bond issuance as a result, a draft document seen by Reuters showed.The move aims to soothe market oversupply concerns, after weak demand at recent auctions and a surge in super-long yields to record highs last month rattled the bond market. The step also follows the Bank of Japan’s decision this week to slow its tapering of bond purchase from next fiscal year, signalling caution as it…