Relentless violence has devastated Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around the only capital in Sudan’s western Darfur region not held by paramilitary forces, the UN’s top humanitarian official said on Wednesday.UN Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emerge
TRUMP TARGETED: The Kamala Harris campaign called the e-mails ‘unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity’ that were regarded as spam or phishing attempts
Iranian hackers sought to interest US President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from former US president Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited e-mails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in November’s election, the FBI and other federal
Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20.“Today the dialogue process is suspended,” the government’s peace delegation said in a statement. “Its viability is severe
Japan’s Nintendo yesterday said that it has filed a lawsuit accusing the developer of a video game jokingly dubbed “Pokemon with guns” of patent infringement.Nintendo and The Pokemon Co are suing Pocketpair, the Japan-based studio behind the Palworld game that became a viral hit when its prototype w
US lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a Republican government funding plan, with former US president Donald Trump calling for a forced shutdown unless some demands are met.With government funding set to expire at the end of this month, the bill was voted down in a 220-202 vote in the US House of Repres
FIJIGeorge Speight pardonedFormer coup leader George Speight was yesterday granted a presidential pardon and freed after spending 24 years in jail on treason charges. The Corrections Service said that the businessman-turned-putschist was formally granted a pardon along with six others. He was grante
The full moon shines above skyscrapers in Shanghai on Wednesday.
VIOLENT TREND: Since taking power, Malian Interim President Colonel Assimi Goita has struggled to prevent terrorist attacks, and their number is increasing
Malian troops subdued the Muslim militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali’s capital on Tuesday after gunbattles that killed some soldiers, authorities said. An al-Qaeda-linked group claimed the attack. The militants tried to infiltrate the Faladie military police schoo
A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage on Tuesday testified that the tragedy could have been prevented if a US federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. Former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge said he felt let down
The pitch is a classic: A young celebrity with no climbing experience spends a year in hard training and scales Mount Everest, succeeding against some — if not all — odds. French YouTuber Ines Benazzouz, known as Inoxtag, brought the story to life with a two-hour-plus documentary about his year prep
REQUEST REJECTED: US Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky said she was concerned about ‘power imbalance’ and the risk of witness tampering
Superstar rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to racketeering and sex trafficking charges, and was ordered to remain in custody pending a trial. Combs, 54, was arrested by US federal agents in New York on Monday evening and accused in a just-unsealed three-count criminal indic
Meta on Tuesday announced the creation of “Teen Accounts,” designed to better protect underage users from the dangers associated with Instagram. Many experts and authorities accuse the hugely popular photo-sharing app of damaging the mental health of its youngest users through addiction to the app,
US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris reacts during a visit at the Community College of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
BUMPY ROAD: The European Commission president had pushed hard to get more women in top positions. Confirmation hearings are to start in the coming weeks
After weeks of fierce political horse-trading, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday unveiled her new top team to help steward the EU through the next five years of global uncertainty.Faced with Russia’s war in Ukraine, the potential return of Donald Trump as US president and
‘INTERFERENCE’: The ban comes after the US accused state-run RT of funneling US$10 million through shell entities to covertly fund influence campaigns on social media
Meta Platforms Inc late on Monday said it is banning Russian state media outlets from its apps around the world due to “foreign interference activity.”The ban comes after the US accused RT and employees of the state-run outlet of funneling US$10 million through shell entities to covertly fund influe
The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000, almost 90 percent of whom are women, government data showed yesterday. The figures further highlight the slow-burning demographic crisis gripping the world’s fourth-biggest economy as its population ages and s
Water levels on the Danube River have risen further, as deadly floods unleashed destruction across central Europe.The torrential rain from Storm Boris was set to subside yesterday, but water levels remain elevated across the region. In Austria, the focus is turning to the threat posed by melting sno
Early starts, strict routines and discipline: more and more young men in Finland are being drawn to the rigors of monastic life and its conservative values.In such a secular and progressive country, where experts had expected the young to be less religious, Christianity has been gaining ground — amo
“I am a rapist,” said a Frenchman accused of drugging his wife so that he and dozens of strangers could sexually assault her, his first testimony in a trial that has horrified France.Dominique Pelicot, 71, used a cane yesterday as he slowly entered the courtroom in the southern city of Avignon, wher
new ZealandHoiho is bird of the yearThe yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, has been crowned Bird of the Year, securing 6,328 votes for its second win in the popular annual competition. The hoiho, considered the world’s rarest penguin species by competition organizers Forest and Bird, surpassed the runne