Lee Merritt, a civil rights lawyer who has represented several North Texas families of Black people killed by police officers, said in a video posted to Twitter Saturday he is running for the state’s attorney general. He floated the idea at a Friday protest at the Collin County Courthouse in response to the in-custody death of Marvin David Scott III. …

BOURNEMOUTH: Southampton’s Nathan Redmond scored twice and fellow winger Moussa Djenepo bagged another in a 3-0 win over south-coast rivals Bournemouth on Saturday to secure a place in the FA Cup semi-finals for only the second time in 18 seasons. Mali international Djenepo ran on to a precise through ball from Redmond to slot past goalkeeper Asmir Begovic and give …

ABU DHABI: Najibullah Zadran hit a career best 72 as Afghanistan completed a 3-0 clean sweep over Zimbabwe with another dominant 47-run win in the third and final Twenty20 International in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. The left-hander hit five sixes and as many boundaries in his 35-ball knock which built the foundation of another impressive Afghan total of 183 for …

TOKYO: International spectators will not be allowed to enter Japan for this summer’s Olympic Games amid public concerns over coronavirus (Covid-19), organisers said on Saturday, setting the stage for a drastically scaled-back event. Some 600,000 Olympic tickets purchased by overseas residents will be refunded, as will another 300,000 Paralympic tickets, Toshiro Muto, the chief executive of the Tokyo 2020 organising …

KARACHI: FIFA is finally acting in the way it should have previously to resolve years of conflict, crisis and controversy in Pakistan football. The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Normalisation Committee chairman Haroon Malik is not just going to hold election of the country’s football governing body but he will also be putting systems in place for the future elected body …

NO aspect of labour economy is as divisive and as controversial as minimum wage. On one side are economists and employers who think minimum wage creates distortion in the labour market, leads to unemployment and lowers productivity. Add to this the anti-poor section who thinks the poor are lazy, illiterate and deserve low wages! On the other side are sociologists, …

AHMEDABAD: Rohit Sharma and skipper Virat Kohli blasted half-centuries as India reached 224 for two to set a new best Twenty20 International score against England in the deciding fifth match of their series on Saturday. With the series level at 2-2, England won the toss in Ahmedabad, but Sharma blasted 64 and put on 94 with Kohli for the first …

ISLAMABAD: Two major opposition parties lashed out on Saturday at the government over its plan to meet conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) through promulgation of ordinances envisaging sizeable increase in electricity tariff. In a strong-worded statement, spokesperson for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Marriyum Aurangzeb asked the “selected prime minister and his rented mouthpieces” to stop telling lies …

KARACHI: The strengthening of the rupee by eight per cent against the dollar has substantially reduced the landed cost of imported finished goods and raw materials, but consumers continue to pay high prices for food items, automobiles, steel bars and cement. The dollar price has been declining since the last week of August 2020. The rupee is now trading at …