Pakistani airstrikes early yesterday targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside Afghanistan, killing at least eight people and drawing return fire from the Afghan Taliban, officials said.The latest escalation is likely to further increase tensions between Islamabad and Kabu
EXTERNAL FORCES? The president responded to the protests with warnings about the ‘enemies of the Revolution’ and ‘terrorists’ in the US encouraging dissent
Cubans on Sunday staged rare street protests over food and electricity shortages, as the country suffered long outages that left parts of the island without power for up to 14 hours a day.“People were shouting ‘food and electricity,’” a 65-year-old resident, who asked not to be named, said by phone
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification yesterday added its voice to growing speculation around North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s succession plans, saying they have not “ruled out” that his daughter could be next in line to lead the nation.Pyongyang state media on Saturday referred to Kim’s teenage da
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday railed against growing criticism from top ally the US against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”In recent days, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ran
The Chinese embassy in Singapore yesterday urged its citizens in the city-state to stay away from all forms of betting, saying gambling overseas contravenes Chinese laws.The warning comes as Beijing intensifies its efforts to crack down on Chinese citizens gambling across Southeast Asia, a popular t
COLOMBIACeasefire suspendedPresident Gustavo Petro on Sunday suspended a ceasefire with one of a handful of armed groups with which he hoped to negotiate peace accords, saying its fighters violated the truce by attacking an indigenous community. The government said that starting tomorrow, it would r
SAFE: The military said although the Somalian pirates opened fire, navy personnel managed to rescue all 17 crew members without a single one of them being hurt
The Indian Navy on Saturday recaptured a ship from Somalian “pirates” off the Indian coast, the military said, rescuing the crew and ending a three-month takeover of the Maltese-flagged bulk carrier MV Ruen.The hijacking of the ship in December last year was the first time since 2017 that any cargo
RAMPAGE: Police said that after killing his stepmother and his 13-year-old sister, Andre Gordon drove to another home and shot the mother of his two children
An “extremely dangerous” suspect was on Saturday taken into custody in New Jersey after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him.Andre Gordon, 26, “surrendered peacefully,” Trenton Police Department spokesperson Lisette Rios said, a
Stalled talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war were expected to resume by yesterday afternoon at the earliest in Qatar, Egyptian officials said.The talks would mark the first time Israeli officials and Hamas leaders both join the indirect negotiations since the start of the Musl
Icelandic police on Saturday declared a state of emergency as lava spewed from a new volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December last year.A “volcanic eruption has started between stora Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula,” the Iceland
US President Joe Biden on Saturday joked about former US president Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner, before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November’s election.“One candidate’s too old and mentally unfit to be president,” the 81-year-old Democrat quipped at
A Russian-Belarusian rock band that denounces Moscow’s Ukraine invasion returned to the stage this week, voicing defiance after being detained in Thailand in January and threatened with deportation to Russia.The band, Bi-2, formed in the 1980s in Belarus when it was part of the Soviet Union, left Ru
DISSENT DURING ELECTIONS: There were at least nine arrests for pouring dye into ballot boxes and arson attacks at polling stations on the first of three days of voting
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday vowed a strong military response to a string of Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s border that he described as an attempt by Kyiv to derail his bid for re-election.Putin addressed his security council on the first day of the three-day vote that is also being hel
Russian missiles on Friday pounded Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa, killing more than a dozen people including rescue workers in an attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as “vile.”Journalists on the scene saw bodies covered by blankets strewn on the street, while images fro
Haitians were on edge on Friday awaiting the naming of a transitional governing body meant to restore stability to the country, wracked by gang violence and largely isolated from the outside world.Attacks in the capital, Port-au-Prince, continued overnight, targeting the airport and a top police off
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw paratroop drills aimed at showing his soldiers’ ability to occupy an “enemy region at a stroke,” state media said yesterday, days after the most recent annual US-South Korean military exercise.Pyongyang has shown particular sensitivity toward the joint air for
ONLINE VITRIOL: While Mo Yan faces a lawsuit, bottled water company Nongfu Spring and Tsinghua University are being attacked amid a rise in nationalist fervor
At first glance, a Nobel prize winning author, a bottle of green tea and Beijing’s Tsinghua University have little in common, but in recent weeks they have been dubbed by China’s nationalist netizens as the “three new evils” in the fight to defend the country’s valor in cyberspace.Last month, a patr
SOUTH KOREASenior doctors to quitA group of senior doctors yesterday said that they would resign starting March 25 in support of junior medics in a nearly month-long strike over government training reforms that has plunged hospitals into chaos. Representatives of medical professors at 20 universitie
‘SURPRISES’: The militants claim to have successfully tested a missile capable of reaching Mach 8 and vowed to strike ships heading toward the Cape of Good Hope
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported on Thursday, potentially raising the stakes in their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways against the backdrop of Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.The report
The father of a US teen who purchased the gun his son used in a deadly 2021 school shooting was on Thursday found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a Michigan court.James Crumbley and his wife, who was found guilty of the same charges last month, bought their then 15-year-old son the 9mm SIG Sau