STILL AFLOAT: Satellite images show that a Chinese ship damaged in a collision earlier this month was under repair on Hainan, but Beijing has not commented on the incident
Australia, Canada and the Philippines on Wednesday deployed three warships and aircraft for drills against simulated aerial threats off a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese forces have used risky maneuvers to try to drive away Manila’s aircraft and ships.The Philippine military said the na
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is to host world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from Sunday for a summit before a huge military parade as he seeks to showcase a non-Western style of regional collaboration.The Shanghai Cooperation Organ
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez has been fired, the White House said on Wednesday, less than a month after being sworn in, and four senior officials have resigned amid growing tensions over vaccine policies and public health directives.US Secretary of Healt
Thousands of people from around the world seeking a uniquely messy thrill on Wednesday spent one wild hour flinging bushels of overripe tomatoes at each other during Spain’s “Tomatina” celebration.The mother of all food fights painted a packed central street in the eastern town of Bunol deep red as
AUSTRALIAManhunt in bush continuesPolice yesterday said they would not rest until they catch a 56-year-old gunman who fled into the bush two days earlier after allegedly killing two officers. Detectives said they were speaking to the man’s partner and searching rugged, forested terrain near the smal
PROTEST: The letter said that the government was attempting to roll back powers given to FEMA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in US history
Some employees at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Tuesday were put on leave after they signed an open letter of dissent against the agency’s leadership, the nonprofit group whose Web site published the letter said.The development is likely to fuel concerns that US President Dona
TARGETING GANGS: Uribe Londono was not widely known before decrying the country’s descent into ‘madness’ at his son’s nationally televised funeral
The father of Miguel Uribe, a Colombian presidential candidate fatally shot at a political rally earlier this year, on Tuesday launched a presidential campaign in what he called an effort keep his son’s legacy alive and build a safer and more prosperous Colombia.Miguel Uribe Londono, 72, announced h
A set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan are human remains, police said yesterday, while a Japanese group helping search for the remains said they are certain to belong to about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers who died in an accident in 1942.Police said their examination of the three bo
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera.These are just some of the creations of Argentina’s Cyber Dumpster Divers, a collective of ingenious tech aficionados who turn e-waste into new products.“We experiment with te
The National Museum of Denmark yesterday unveiled what it described as the first “portrait” of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a man with an imperial mustache, braided beard and neatly groomed hairstyle.Carved out of ivory walrus tusk, the partially damaged representation of a
DENMARKUS diplomat summonedMinistry of Foreign Affairs Lars Lokke Rasmussen summoned the top US diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster yesterday reported that at least three people with connections to US President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence op
A Hindu temple lies partially submerged in floodwaters after heavy rain induced a rise in the water level of the Tawi River in Jammu, India, on Tuesday. Floods and landslides have killed at least 30 people in India’s Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials and local media said yesterday.
TRUMP-LEE SUMMIT: The two leaders expressed optimism for close cooperation on North Korea, collective security and shipbuilding, but no change in Seoul’s 15% tariff
US President Donald Trump insisted that Seoul would stick to the terms of its recent tariff agreement, including hundreds of billions of US dollars of investment in the US, despite lobbying efforts by South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during their first in-person meeting.Trump and Lee on Monday e
US President Donald Trump on Monday night said that he is firing US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move that would constitute a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.Trump s
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has fired his national police chief, who gained attention for leading the separate arrests of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on orders of the International Criminal Court and televangelist Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, who is on the FBI’s most-wanted
Pakistan has evacuated tens of thousands of people to safer areas after neighboring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions, officials said yesterday.The move came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, markin
HEALTH BLITZ: The US fast-food giant, superstar Ranveer Singh and others have joined a campaign to address protein-deficiency, which affects 73% of Indians
At McDonald’s outlets in South India, a US$0.30 burger topping has been selling out fast. It is not extra cheese or a fancy salsa dip, but a vegetarian protein slice developed with Indian government food scientists — the brand’s first such offering globally.McDonald’s has joined India’s biggest dair
INDIAAmbani’s zoo under probeThe Supreme Court on Monday ordered a panel led by retired judges to investigate allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest person. Vantara, which bills itself as the “world’s biggest wild anim
A giant dust storm approaches the Phoenix metro area in Arizona, as a monsoon storm pushed the dust into the air on Monday. The storm, known as a haboob, left more than 15,000 people without power.
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