The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington was charged with murder on Thursday, as international tensions over anti-Semitism erupted over the attack.Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted “free Palestine” as he was taken away by police after the shoo
UNSCHEDULED VISIT: ‘It’s a very bulky new neighbor, but it will soon go away,’ said Johan Helberg of the 135m container ship that run aground near his house
A man in Norway awoke early on Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone’s throw from his fjord-side house — and he had slept through the commotion.For an as-yet unknown reason, the 135m NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just meters from Johan Helberg’s house in a fjord near T
He imposed martial law, sent armed troops to parliament and was unceremoniously stripped of office — but some South Koreans still believe disgraced former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol is the country’s true leader.Yoon is barred from standing in the June 3 snap election triggered by his ouste
North Korea yesterday said it began steps to arrest and investigate those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed fury over the incident that he said was caused by criminal negligence.The warship was damaged when a transport cra
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ATTACK: In a carefully choreographed onslaught in the Oval Office, Trump turned the lights down to play a video about alleged murders of white South Africans
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with explosive false claims of white genocide and land seizures during a tense White House meeting that was reminiscent of his February ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.South Africa has one of
NO EXCUSES: Marcos said his administration was acting on voters’ demands, but an academic said the move was emotionally motivated after a poor midterm showing
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr yesterday sought the resignation of all his Cabinet secretaries, in a move seen as an attempt to reset the political agenda and assert his authority over the second half of his single six-year term.The order came after the president’s allies failed to win a m
China late on Wednesday slammed a video shared on social media by the US embassy in Singapore that criticizes Beijing’s South China Sea claims, comparing them to the actions of an inconsiderate neighbor who intrudes on others’ space.The roughly 90-second video shows a government-built apartment bloc
Hundreds of animals including elephants, crocodiles, lions and tigers have been moved from a violence-torn Mexican cartel heartland to a new home in an operation described as a “21st-century Noah’s Ark.”The transported species, which also included exotic birds, had been housed at the Ostok animal re
Hundreds of young Mongolians turned out this week in the country’s capital calling for the prime minister’s resignation on allegations of corruption, a longstanding source of deep public anger in the landlocked democracy.Mongolia has for decades struggled with endemic graft and the widespread view t
At least five local media outlets in Hong Kong and multiple journalists had their taxes from years ago audited on “unreasonable grounds,” a press association said on Wednesday.Hong Kong’s press freedom ranking has plummeted since Beijing cracked down on dissent after huge, sometimes violent democrac
PHILIPPINESChina targets ship: bureauThe Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources yesterday accused the China Coast Guard of firing water cannons and sideswiping a government vessel on a research project. Wednesday’s encounter happened near a group of small sandbanks in the Spratly Islands (Nansha
‘FRIGHTENING’: It was the first time that the annual report showed fires as the leading cause of tropical forest loss, with Brazil losing 2.8 million hectares of forest
Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records last year, a report issued yesterday showed.Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares, an 80 percent spike compared with 2023 and an area about the size of Panama, mainly because Brazil, the hos
A team of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants with tuberculosis (TB) that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day.The jumbo effort at the Karachi Safari Park involves administering the tablets — the same as those used to treat TB in humans — hi
Coast guard vessels of the Philippines and the US on Tuesday for the first time took part in joint maritime exercises with naval and air force units in the contested South China Sea, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said yesterday.The exercises, held in waters off Palawan and Occidental Mindoro,
US immigration officials have begun deporting about 12 South Asian migrants to South Sudan, according to a Tuesday court filing and media reports.US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston during a hastily arranged virtual hearing ordered the White House to not let the group of migrants leave the cust
With its pristine swimming pool, manicured lawns and lush forest backdrop, Villa Baviera, a German-themed settlement of 122 people in southern Chile, looks like the perfect holiday getaway.However, Colonia Dignidad, as it was previously known, is a byword for horror, as the former home of a brutal c
MARKET EFFECT: Oil prices rose more than 1 percent following comments that the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran had risen ‘significantly in recent months’
New intelligence obtained by the US suggests that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing multiple US officials familiar with the intelligence.It was not clear whether Israeli leaders had made a final decision and there was disagreement wit
UNITED STATES‘Cheers’ actor Wendt diesGeorge Wendt, the American actor best known for his role as the curmudgeonly Norm Peterson in Cheers, has died, a representative said on Tuesday. Wendt, who was 76, was nominated for six successive Emmy awards for his role as the perennial barfly opposite Ted Da
POST-COVID-19: The accord aims to better detect and combat pandemics through global coordination and surveillance, and equitable access to vaccines and treatments
The World Health Assembly yesterday adopted a landmark pandemic agreement on tackling future health crises, struck after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the COVID-19 crisis.The accord aims to prevent the disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded the COVID-19 pan
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