French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Pyrenees, seeking to press a message to Beijing not to support Russia’s war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.The first day of Xi’s state visit to France, his f
OMAHA BEACH HERO: Charles Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded soldiers to relative safety
On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old US Army medic who was ready to give his life — and save as many as he could. Now 99, he is spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he is about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy that led to the lib
The New York judge presiding over former US president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial on Monday threatened Trump with jail time if he committed another breach of his gag order.Trump, 77, is charged with falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a US$130,000 payme
The collapse of a multistory building under construction in the South African city of George has killed at least four people and trapped about 50 more, authorities said yesterday.In all, 24 people have been found and pulled from the rubble, four of whom have died, the coastal municipality said in an
Boeing on Monday night called off its first astronaut launch because of a valve problem on the rocket.The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing’s Starliner capsule for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) when the countdown was halted, just two hours before the planned lift
Russian President Vladimir Putin was yesterday sworn into office at a lavish ceremony at the Kremlin, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever before.The 71-year-old Kremlin chief has ruled Russia since the turn of the century, securing a fresh six-year mandate in March af
INFLUENCE: The French president last year appealed to Xi Jinping to ‘bring Russia to its senses,’ but the call was not followed by any apparent change in stance
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday was to press Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to use his influence to move Russia toward ending the war in Ukraine during a two-day state visit to France. The leaders were also expected to discuss trade disputes over electric vehicles, cognac and cosmetic
Former Panamanian minister of public security Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, popular former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli, who buttressed his campaign despite being holed up in Nicaragua’s embassy.Mulino, 64, was one of the f
Chadians yesterday began voting for a president in an election purportedly aimed at ending military rule, but dismissed by opponents of junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby as a fix following violent repression.Voters were to choose whether to extend decades of Deby family rule in one of the world’s poo
DEEPFAKE PERILS: When the fabricated recording of the principal hit social media in January, the crisis thrust Pikesville High School into the national spotlight
A fabricated audio clip of a US high-school principal prompted a torrent of outrage, leaving him battling allegations of racism and anti-Semitism in a case that has sparked new alarm about artificial intelligence (AI) manipulation.Police charged a disgruntled staff member at the Maryland school with
After years of delays, Boeing’s Starliner capsule was set to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, a milestone for the US aerospace giant and NASA.The flight, a final test before Starliner takes up regular service for the space agency, is critical for Boeing, whose rep
UNDER INVESTIGATION: Members of the local Muslim community had raised concerns with the police about the boy, who officials said might have been radicalized online
A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said yesterday.The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in suburban Willetton on Saturday night.The teen attacked the man and then rushed at p
WAVE OF UNREST: At Princeton, students started a hunger strike, demanding that administrators meet with them and grant students amnesty from protest charges
Twenty-five people were arrested on Saturday for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus, while demonstrators at the University of Michigan chanted anti-war messages and waved flags during commencement cer
An Indonesian volunteer returns from a dangerous rescue mission to a remote island where a volcano recently unleashed huge eruptions, cradling an abandoned, emaciated dog covered in burn blisters.Mount Ruang in Indonesia’s northernmost region has erupted more than half a dozen times since April 16,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU leaders on Saturday denounced a recent spate of attacks on politicians in Germany, including one that sent a member of the European Parliament to hospital with serious injuries.Matthias Ecke, 41, a member of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, was hit and kicked on
Britain’s Labour Party on Saturday won mayoral polls in London and central England, in crushing defeats for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s unpopular Conservatives ahead of a national election due later this year.While Labour politician Sadiq Khan’s re-election as London mayor was widely expect
BRAZILFlood death toll risesRaging floods and mudslides have killed at least 57 people in the south and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the Civil Defense agency said on Saturday. At least 74 people were injured and another 67 were missing from the catastrophic flooding, it said. The toll d
INTERNATIONAL PROBE: Australian and US authorities were helping coordinate the investigation of the case, which follows the 2015 murder of Australian surfers in Mexico
Three bodies were found in Mexico’s Baja California state, the FBI said on Friday, days after two Australians and an American went missing during a surfing trip in an area hit by cartel violence.Authorities used a pulley system to hoist what appeared to be lifeless bodies covered in mud from a shaft
BRACING FOR MORE: State officials warned that four dams were at risk of collapse, while many communities have been completely cut off
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by torrential storms in southern Brazil on Friday climbed to 39, officials said, as they warned of worse to come.As the rain kept beating down, rescuers in boats and planes searched for scores of people reported missing among the ruins of collapsed
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of US airpower, but the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), not a human pilot, and riding in the fro