OUSTED PM: ‘Free and fair elections require genuine competition, the ability of all parties to campaign and the electorate’s right to choose,’ Sheikh Hasina said
Bangladesh’s fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned that holding elections without her party — the first since her overthrow — was “sowing the seeds” of further division in her country.In written responses to Agence France-Presse, her first interview since being ousted, Hasina
Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity on Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement.All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on Facebook, warning that the monkeys were “agg
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast.The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Espera
AUSTRALIACaesars mixed upThey came, they saw, and they squandered a year of lessons on Roman history. Schools yesterday were investigating how a curriculum blunder ended with pupils mistakenly studying Augustus instead of Julius Caesar. The high-school students only realized that they had brushed up
SECRETIVE SECT: Tetsuya Yamagami was said to have held a grudge against the Unification Church for bankrupting his family after his mother donated about ￥100m
The gunman accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe yesterday pleaded guilty, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world.The slaying forced a reckoning in a nation with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between pr
The latest climate pledges by governments would cause global greenhouse gas emissions to start to fall in the next 10 years, but not nearly fast enough to prevent worsening climate change and extreme weather, the UN said yesterday.The analysis by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC
DEADLY PREDATORS: In New South Wales, smart drumlines — anchored buoys with baited hooks — send an alert when a shark bites, allowing the sharks to be tagged
High above Sydney’s beaches, drones seek one of the world’s deadliest predators, scanning for the flick of a tail, the swish of a fin or a shadow slipping through the swell.Australia’s oceans are teeming with sharks, with great whites topping the list of species that might fatally chomp a human.Unde
North Korea’s top diplomat on Monday visited the Kremlin for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which followed last month’s meeting between the nations’ leaders.The show of deepening ties came as US President Donald Trump visits Asia.In a separate meeting with her Russian counterpart, Nort
King Charles III on Monday dedicated Britain’s first national memorial to LGBT+ troops, 25 years after the UK ended a ban on homosexuality in the armed forces.The king, who is the ceremonial head of the armed forces, laid flowers at the monument in the National Memorial Arboretum in central England
A Japanese governor yesterday called for help from the military to deal with a spate of “truly dire” deadly bear attacks, which have risen to record levels this year in Japan.Bears have killed 10 people this year, a government official said, surpassing the previous high of six in the fiscal year tha
Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun god on the occasion of the Chhath Puja festival along the banks of the River Brahmaputra in Guwahati, India, yesterday.
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s (黎智英) son Sabastien Lai (黎崇恩) said he is pleased that US President Donald Trump may discuss his father’s release with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) during their upcoming meeting on Thursday.His father is in poor health, Sabastien said yesterday in an exclu
MOVING FORWARD: The president promised to continue on the reform path with what he predicted would be ‘the most reformist Congress in Argentina’s history’
Argentine President Javier Milei on Sunday hailed his party’s runaway victory in midterm elections as a “turning point” for the country, and vowed to charge ahead with his agenda of shrinking the state and deregulating the economy.Milei’s small La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party rebounded from a series
MILITARY TENSIONS: Anthony Albanese said his seventh meeting with Li showed that Australia and China could manage their differences through dialogue
China and Australia yesterday sought to keep ties on an even keel, despite tensions over military encounters in the South China Sea and rivalry in the Asia-Pacific region, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describing both sides as “friends.”China is ready to build a more stable and str
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday said that it had seized full control of El Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the nation’s unrelenting civil war.The announcement came just hours after it claimed to ha
Venezuela on Sunday blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous “provocation,” amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland.The USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, docked on Sunday in the Trinidadian capital, Port of Spain, for a
A US military helicopter and fighter jet on Sunday crashed in the South China Sea, with the incidents occurring about 30 minutes apart and coinciding with a visit to Asia by US President Donald Trump.A Sea Hawk helicopter went down at about 2:45pm on Sunday “while conducting routine operations from
Four people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of a Cameroonian opposition leader who claims to have won the presidential election, authorities said ahead of the announcement of official results yesterday.Issa Tchiroma, who challenged Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s 43-y
A woman dressed as a Catrina takes part in the Catrinas Parade ahead of the Day of the Dead in Mexico City on Sunday.
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