Tokyo: IOC President Thomas Bach arrived in Tokyo on Thursday just as a ban on spectators at the Tokyo Olympics is likely after Japan Prime Minister Yoshihde Suga announced a state of emergency because of rising coronavirus infections in the capital.

New Delhi: In a setback to India, Britain's Cairn Energy Plc has secured a French court order to seize some 20 government properties in Paris to recover a part of the USD 1.7 billion due from New Delhi following an arbitration panel overturning levy of retrospective taxes.

London: The British government should back a political boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to pressure the Chinese government over the genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in the northwest province of Xinjiang, an influential group of lawmakers said Thursday.

Washington: As many as 36 US states and Washington DC have filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the search engine giant's control over its Android app store violates antitrust laws.

Port-au-Prince (Haiti): Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence, the country's interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday, calling it a hateful, inhumane and barbaric act."

Rescuers on Wednesday have found bodies of victims a day after a plane crash in a remote area in Russia's Far East, local authorities said.

 Russia's state aviation agency said that wreckage of a plane that went missing Tuesday in the Far East region of Kamchatka has been found around five kilometres away from a runway in an airport on the Okhotsk Sea coast where it was supposed to land.

 A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka on Tuesday, local officials said.