WASHINGTON: Debris from a stealth jet that went missing after the pilot ejected has been found, the US military said on Monday (Sep 18), after a day in which failure to track the US$80 million aircraft drew amazement and ridicule in equal measure. The debris field from the F-35 was […]
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KYIV: The western Ukrainian city of Lviv was rocked by blasts in the early hours today, with local officials saying the Russian air attack injured one man and caused a major fire at an industrial warehouse. “A woman and a man were found under the rubble in Lviv. According to […]
WASHINGTON: A group of 18 state attorneys general said yesterday they backed Montana’s effort to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the January 1 effective date. The state attorneys general led by Virginia and including Georgia, Alaska, Utah, Indiana, Nebraska, […]
BEIJING: China plans to manage monkeypox in the same way it handles infectious diseases such as Covid-19 starting from September 20, health authorities said today, after detecting around 500 cases of the viral infection last month. Monkeypox will be managed under Category B protocols, the National Health Commission (NHC) said […]
LAMPEDUSA (Italy): The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled yesterday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at 7,000 people—equivalent to the entire local population. The island’s reception centre, built to house fewer than 400 people, was overwhelmed with men, women and children […]
DERNA: Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna. A senior medic in Derna told Reuters […]
JAKARTA: Southeast Asia’s regional bloc Asean will not be held hostage by the crisis in Myanmar, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said today, adding the block will continue its peace efforts.
BEIJING: China’s top security agency has hinted that any meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden in San Francisco later this year will depend on the United States “showing sufficient sincerity”. Biden on Sunday (Sep 3) expressed disappointment that Xi was not attending an upcoming summit of […]
BANGKOK: Thailand’s king has commuted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s eight-year prison sentence to one year, the royal gazette said today, a day after the billionaire submitted a request for pardon. The country’s most famous politician returned to Thailand last week in a dramatic homecoming after 15 years abroad in […]
GENEVA: people were killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “There needs to be an investigation… and the perpetrators need to be brought to justice,” UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. The UN is in touch with the […]