JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators may need another year to determine the cause of last year’s crash of a Sriwijaya Air jet that killed all 62 people on board, according to an interim report released today. Under international standards, a final report would normally be issued within a year of the Jan. […]
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Zandile Mafe, 49, appeared on Tuesday in a courtroom in Cape Town. A man accused of setting a fire that destroyed parts of South Africa’s historic parliament complex faces a new charge of terrorism. Zandile Mafe, 49, appeared on Tuesday in a courtroom in Cape Town for a bail hearing, […]
Campaigners have called for Martin Reynolds, one of Boris Johnson’s top Number 10 aides, to be sacked after he invited staff to boozy Downing Street drinks during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Mr Reynolds is accused of sending an email invite to a party to more than 100 Downing Street Staff […]
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev blamed the unrest on foreign-backed ‘terrorists’. The president of Kazakhstan has announced that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the country in two days after completing its mission. The mostly Russian troops were deployed to Kazakhstan last week by the Collective Security […]
NUR-SULTAN: President Vladimir Putin said today that unrest in Kazakhstan had been exploited by destructive internal and external forces, and that the Russian-led CSTO military alliance would not allow other forces to destalibilise them. He said the deployment of CSTO troops had prevented armed groups from undermining the basis of […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rescuers were working Sunday (Jan 9) to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow. The resort town of Murree, around 70km northeast of Islamabad, was inundated with tourists and daytrippers last week after unusually […]
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April while collecting cans in East Harlem has died of his injuries, and his case is now deemed a homicide, New York City police said on Saturday (Jan 8). Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec 31, police said. The attack drew […]
With the negotiations looming — and the fate of Europe’s post-Cold War borders and NATO’s military presence on the continent at stake — Biden’s advisers say they are trying to signal to Putin exactly what he would face in hopes of influencing his decisions in coming weeks. The Biden administration […]
The rise of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the presidency was looked at as a possible model by other authoritarian regimes on how to conduct a leadership transition without losing their grip on power. The embattled president of Kazakhstan has the pedigree of an international technocrat. The son of prominent intellectuals, he […]
ALMATY: Kazakhstan’s president said Friday that order had been mostly restored in the country after days of unprecedented violence that saw a Moscow-led military alliance send troops to help quell unrest. The interior ministry said security forces had taken all the country’s regions “under increased protection” and that 26 “armed […]