PARIS (Reuters) – Former Olympic champion Laura Flessel and world champion Camille Lacourt will head two of the 69 collective relays of torch bearers for the Paris 2024 Summer Games, organisers said on Wednesday. Some 11,000 people will be carrying the Olympic torch and among them, 3,000 will do it …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s crypto asset regulations, expected to bring licensing and operating standards to trading platforms, are at the final stage, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Wednesday. The rules are aimed at reducing the risk of trading crypto assets as well as helping the country to be taken …

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Chelsea and England forward Fran Kirby has spoken out about body image and social media abuse, saying while the toxic fan criticism is linked to the growing profile of women’s soccer, the negative comments are “tough” to read. “It’s really important to emphasise that, of course …

PETALING JAYA: A group of rice millers want the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) to act against cartels in the rice industry just like it did recently with a cartel of companies found guilty of fixing chicken feed prices. The Bumiputera Small Millers Association (PPBMM) and the Malay Economic Action Council …

GENEVA (Reuters) – Morocco won a vote on Wednesday to lead the United Nations Human Rights Council after a heated showdown with South Africa, which said Rabat’s human rights record made it unfit to preside over the body. The Moroccan candidate, Ambassador Omar Zniber, received 30 votes, and his South …

GEORGE TOWN: Work conducted at the Sungai Dua water treatment plant is ahead of schedule. Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said work related to the replacement of two units of 1.2m control valves at the water treatment plant, as well as 19 of the 22 other preventive maintenance projects, have …

(Reuters) – U.S. asset managers remain hopeful the securities regulator will permit the trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), even after a fake post on the agency’s social media account saying they had been approved sparked confusion on Tuesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will decide on Wednesday …

LONDON (Reuters) – Kai Lightner was a youth climbing world champion but after being told at 14 that his liver was close to failure and fracturing his spine in two places he realised the restrictions he put on eating to pursue success had spun dangerously out of control. Lightner, now …

KUALA LUMPUR: Tycoon Tan Sri Halim Saad’s application to refer two constitutional questions to the Federal Court relating to the UEM-Renong suit against Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and two others will be heard on May 14 at the High Court here. The two others are former Finance Minister II Tan …

(Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny cracked jokes on Wednesday in his first court appearance since being transferred to an Arctic penal colony, but a judge rejected his latest challenge against his treatment in prison. Navalny appeared by video link from the “Penal Wolf” colony to which he was …