Beneath a busy flyover in India’s financial capital Mumbai, a row of pastel-colored shipping containers houses an unlikely school serving some of the city’s most marginalized children. Despite laws guaranteeing free schooling for children aged six to 14, poverty and migration continue to keep many o
France and Germany on Monday said they had agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet program due to disagreements between the companies involved, in a blow to European efforts to boost defense cooperation. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program was launched in 2017 to replace France’s Rafale jets a
The US on Monday issued an updated list of Chinese companies that it believes are aiding the country’s military — including e-commerce giant Alibaba, search engine provider Baidu and electric vehicle maker BYD. The US Department of Defense unveiled the designations just weeks after US President Dona
TOO CLOSE TO CALL: Peruvians braced for days and perhaps weeks of uncertainty, as the first-round presidential election result took more than 30 days to complete
Leftist Roberto Sanchez on Monday pulled ahead in Peru’s presidential runoff, overtaking conservative Keiko Fujimori for the first time since counting began. With 18 million ballots counted from Sunday’s poll, Sanchez was ahead by about 15,000 votes, and the race was still much too close to call. Ma
Pope Leo XIV delivers a speech at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Monday.
IMPERFECT ALLIANCE: North Korea’s commitment to its nuclear program has been a thorn in the relationship, as Beijing wants to see a denuclearized Korean Peninsula
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday made a rare visit to North Korea, where he met an emboldened North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who has drawn closer to Moscow while expanding his country’s nuclear weapons program. Xi’s trip to Pyongyang was his first since 2019 and came after he hosted a s
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s ruling party has won parliamentary elections, preliminary results showed yesterday, cementing the nation’s Westward tilt after threats from Moscow and claims of Russian interference. Pashinyan has sought to loosen the ex-Soviet republic’s dependence on Mosco
‘BIG MISTAKE’? Diego Garcia’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it a military installation of significant importance to the US, a US official said
The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. US officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the UK and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said. The plan is among several options being drafted by the Wh
A patrol boat recovered the bodies of 10 people after a fishing vessel rescued 48 migrants from a craft that capsized near Malta, the Italian coast guard said on Sunday. The coast guard said in a statement that it was still searching an area approximately 84km southeast of Malta where the migrant ve
US President Donald Trump lasted through probing questions about his Iran war strategy and repeated weather disruptions during an interview with US broadcaster NBC — but angrily stormed out when confronted over his unfounded claims of election fraud. “You’re a one-sided, crooked network. Sorry. Let’
Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd on Saturday celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back. Denmark’s raucous Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor stage in central Copenhagen, att
The Nigerian army on Sunday said that it freed 360 people abducted by Boko Haram in southern Borno, in the northeastern part of the country. The operation was conducted in the Mandara mountains which form a part of the militant group’s stronghold, the army said in a statement. It resulted in the rel
The Japanese city of Utsunomiya yesterday suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official said. The city of 500,000 residents about 100km north of Tokyo said the bear was first seen in a residential area near a park on Satu
People dressed as “the Tramp” pose for a photograph next to the Manoir de Ban, the final residence of English film director and actor Charlie Chaplin, during an event in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, on Sunday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chaplin’s World museum, which was created on t
ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC: Hegseth’s comments echoed the argument of the Trump administration that mass migration represents a danger to European civilization
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Europe to counter what he termed an “invasion” of its coastline by migration, as he marked the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings in France. Hegseth also called on European countries to do more to contribute to their own defense
Israeli forces on Friday evening killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby and wounded his parents in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and said he died at the scene, while hi
DARK HISTORY: A high percentage of Germans think their grandparents tried to help those persecuted by the Nazi regime, but the real figure is less than 1%, a historian said
Many German families have faced the uncomfortable question: What did grandpa do during World War II? Now, the answer might be just a few clicks away — but it might not be what they wanted to hear. In March, the US National Archives posted online the digital scans of about 12 million membership cards
A standoff missile, capable of attacking from outside an enemy’s range, was unveiled to the press for the first time at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force’s Higashi Fuji Maneuver Area in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday. About 2,100 personnel participated in the Fuji Firepower Exercise, a large liv
Rescuers on Saturday called off their search for two men trapped in a semi-submerged cave in Laos for more than two weeks, as the site became unstable and survival hopes faded. Seven villagers became trapped in the cave in central Xaysomboun Province on May 20 when flash floods blocked their exit as
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