STATE OF EMERGENCY: Chilean President Gabriel Boric said that machinery was being used to clear streets and remove debris in the fight against the fires
Police in south-central Chile have arrested a man on suspicion of starting one of the wildfires that killed 21 people and razed entire neighborhoods, the government said on Wednesday.Chilean Minister of Public Security Luis Cordero said that the suspect used a liquid accelerant to start fires in a w
Landslides hit a campground and a house in New Zealand and emergency crews were trying to rescue people buried in rubble, officials said yesterday.Emergency services were called to the slide at the base of Mount Maunganui on New Zealand’s North Island after 9:30am. The rubble hit Beachside Holiday P
A US House of Representatives committee on Wednesday advanced resolutions to hold former US president Bill Clinton and his wife, former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the prospect of the House using one of its mos
The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station on Wednesday said that a portable ultrasound machine came in “super handy” during a medical crisis.During their first public appearance since returning to Earth, the four astronauts refused to say which one of them needed medica
JAPANNuclear restart haltedThe restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan yesterday, just hours after the process began, its operator said, adding that the reactor remained “stable.” Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture
A trial against two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre opened today, in another landmark case brought under China-imposed national security legislation that has practically crushed prot
CHURCH ABDUCTIONS: Remarks by police and other officials were ‘intended to prevent unnecessary panic while facts were being confirmed,’ a spokesman said
Nigerian police on Tuesday made an about-turn, saying that gunmen had abducted dozens of people during Sunday mass in northern Kaduna State after dismissing the initial reports.A senior Christian clergy and a village head had on Monday told reporters that more than 160 people were snatched from seve
A former flight attendant for a Canadian airline posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from US airlines, authorities said on Tuesday.Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in US fed
A commuter train near Barcelona on Tuesday ploughed into the rubble of a collapsed wall, killing one and injuring dozens in Spain’s second deadly rail accident in days.The latest incident is likely to raise more questions about Spanish transport safety, coming two days after the collision of two hig
TWENTY-THREE YEARS: A judge said that Han Duck-soo ‘played a significant role in the insurrectionary acts’ of former president Yoon Suk-yeol by ensuring compliance
Former South Korean prime minister Han Duck-soo yesterday was sentenced to 23 years in prison for aiding and abetting a declaration of martial law that briefly suspended civilian rule.The defendant “disregarded his duty and responsibility as prime minister until the very end,” said Judge Lee Jin-gwa
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said that he had agreed to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.The board, chaired by Trump, was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan, but has become a larger concept, with Trump exte
Guatemalan Army soldiers patrol a street of the Nueva Jerusalen neighborhood in Guatemala City on Tuesday. Guatemalan soldiers began patrolling gang-controlled neighborhoods in the capital after attacks over the weekend that left 10 police officers dead and prompted the government to declare a state
‘SHOCK TACTIC’: The dismissal of Yang mirrors past cases such as Jang Song-thaek, Kim’s uncle, who was executed after being accused of plotting to overthrow his nephew
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has fired his vice premier, compared him to a goat and railed against “incompetent” officials, state media reported yesterday, in a rare and very public broadside against apparatchiks at the opening of a critical factory.Vice Premier Yang Sung-ho was sacked “on the sp
Swimmers and surfers yesterday were warned to steer clear of beaches in parts of eastern Australia after four shark attacks in the space of 48 hours.Heavy rains stirring up murky waters have been blamed for the unusual spate of attacks in the state of New South Wales. Surf Life Saving New South Wale
PREVENTABLE DEATHS: The Impact Counter Web site estimates that the cuts have so far caused more than 750,000 deaths — more than 500,000 of them children
US President Donald Trump’s dismantling of US foreign aid, which started a year ago yesterday, has caused the preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and would contribute to millions more, researchers say.Humanitarian efforts to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in s
A Minnesota man on Monday said that he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs.ChongLy Thao, 56, a naturalized US citizen who goes by
A record number of tourists flocked to Japan last year, officials said yesterday, despite a steep fall in Chinese visitors last month as a diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo rumbled on.Japan logged 42.7 million arrivals last year, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and To
When the blaring sirens of ambulances and police cars reverberated through a cold January evening in Manuel Munoz’s Spanish village, he knew something had gone seriously wrong — and raced to help.Normally quiet Adamuz, bathed in sunshine and surrounded by the Andalusia region’s quintessential olive
Residents of the Gabriela Mistral neighborhood clear debris from their burned homes after a wildfire in Lirquen, Chile, on Monday. Wildfires that have killed 19 people in southern Chile and wiped out entire towns raged for a third day on Monday, fanned by high temperatures and strong winds.
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