CONFLICT: New Delhi has begun to clear sediment at two plants after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan, which it accuses of a deadly attack in Kashmir
India has begun work to boost reservoir holding capacity at two hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, after fresh tension with Pakistan led it to suspend a water-sharing pact.Last month, New Delhi suspended the 1960 Indus Waters
Some say it feels like walking through a field of gravestones. Others liken it to a maze of coffins, disorientating and eerily quiet despite being in the middle of Berlin.The German capital’s somber Holocaust memorial — an arrangement of 2,711 concrete steles that has drawn millions of visitors — ma
For more than a decade, passengers at New Zealand ’s Wellington International Airport have boarded flights below the figures of two giant, hovering eagles from the Hobbit films, one bearing a bellowing wizard Gandalf.With 15m wingspans and weighing 1.2 tonnes, the sculptures that hover in the termin
The BRP Miguel Malvar, old enough to have seen action in World War II, was yesterday scheduled to go out in a blaze of glory, as a target ship during the annual US-Philippine “Balikatan” military exercises.However, the 80-year-old vessel would not quite make its own funeral.Onlookers instead watched
SPAINCable theft delays trainsThousands of rail passengers were hit with delays after the cable used in the signaling system of the high-speed line between Madrid and Seville was stolen at four locations, authorities said yesterday. The theft, which happened late on Sunday, affected dozens of trains
SUPPORT: The Australian prime minister promised to back Kyiv against Russia’s invasion, saying: ‘That’s my government’s position. It was yesterday. It still is’
Left-leaning Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday basked in his landslide election win, promising a “disciplined, orderly” government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil. People clapped as the 62-year-old and his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, who visited his old inner Sydney
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit back at US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to classify the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” organization. The spat deepened on Friday to embroil the foreign office, Rubio, US Vice President J.D. Van
ENTERTAINMENT: Rio officials have a history of organizing massive concerts on Copacabana Beach, with Madonna’s show drawing about 1.6 million fans last year
Lady Gaga on Saturday night gave a free concert in front of 2 million fans who poured onto Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro for the biggest show of her career. “Tonight, we’re making history... Thank you for making history with me,” Lady Gaga told a screaming crowd. The Mother Monster, as she is k
Gaza’s civil defense agency on Saturday said that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 people were killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in
Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal that would be difficult for the future pope to ignore. “In the past, the nuns suffered a lot and couldn’t talk about it to anyone; it was like a secret,” Sister Cristina Schorck
Voters in South Texas delivered Elon Musk a decisive victory, overwhelmingly approving a ballot measure to establish Starbase, Texas, as its own city. By a margin of 212 to 6, residents of the far-flung community surrounding SpaceX’s rocket-launch site and headquarters voted resoundingly in favor of
CHALLENGES AHEAD: Ex-junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema would need to revamp crucial infrastructure and diversify the economy, while handling the country’s ballooning debt
Gabon’s president-elect Brice Oligui Nguema, 50, who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule and swept polls last month with nearly 95 percent of the vote, was to be sworn in yesterday.The general and former junta leader, who toppled Ali Bongo in August 2023, ending 55 years of dynastic rule
Former South Korean minister of labor Kim Moon-soo, 73, won the presidential nomination of South Korea’s main conservative party, the People Power Party (PPP), and is facing an uphill battle against liberal front-runner, Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, for the June 3 election.Observers say Ki
The memory of blood dripping from trucks loaded with the mangled bodies of US soldiers arriving at a nearby war cemetery from the battlefield in 1945 still gives 91-year-old Marcel Schmetz nightmares.It also instilled a lifelong sense of gratitude for the young soldiers from the US and around the wo
THORNY TOPICS: Chile’s leftist government is taking on sensitive, liberal social issues, while polls show that support for euthanasia and assisted dying is increasing
As a child, Susana Moreira did not have the same energy as her siblings. Over time, her legs stopped walking, and she lost the ability to bathe and take care of herself. Over the past two decades, the 41-year-old Chilean has spent her days bedridden due to degenerative muscular dystrophy. When she f
Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.Friede has long had a fascination with reptiles and other venomous creatures. He used to milk scorpions’ and spiders’ venom as a ho
‘FRAGMENTING’: British politics have for a long time been dominated by the Labor Party and the Tories, but polls suggest that Reform now poses a significant challenge
Hard-right upstarts Reform UK snatched a parliamentary seat from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor Party yesterday in local elections that dealt a blow to the UK’s two establishment parties.Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in n
Former South Korean prime minister Han Duck-soo yesterday said he is to run in next month’s presidential election, and would seek to lessen the powers of the office and ease strife-ridden domestic politics if he wins.Han’s entry heats up the scramble among conservatives to unify behind a candidate t
Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has never left Nigeria, yet he speaks glowingly of Burkina Faso military leader Ibrahim Traore.“Nigeria needs someone like Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. He is doing well for hi
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