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
Indian police yesterday said they had arrested the social media head of the country’s main opposition party over accusations he doctored a widely shared video during an ongoing national election.Police on Friday detained the Indian National Congress national coordinator for social media Arun Reddy i
Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that “xenophobia” was hobbling economic growth in India and Japan, the Economic Times reported yesterday, while Tokyo called the characterization “unfortunate” and misguided.Jaishankar said at a rou
KENYANation braces for cycloneKenya was yesterday on alert for a cyclone heading toward its Indian Ocean coastline, threatening to pile on more misery after deadly floods that have ravaged the region. About 210 people have died from flood-related incidents and nearly 100 are missing, while 165,000 h
HALTED: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is faced with pressure at home to halt trade with Israel, following major setbacks in local elections in March
Turkey on Thursday suspended all imports and exports to Israel citing the country’s ongoing military action in Gaza and vowed to continue to impose the measures until the Israeli government allows the flow of humanitarian aid to the region.A Turkish Ministry of Trade statement said: “Export and impo
US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the US on immigration.The remarks, at a campaign fundraising eve
Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) yesterday said government support for press freedom has been declining worldwide, as it unveiled its annual world rankings, highlighting Argentina among the countries where the situation has deteriorated.Norway retained its top position, while Eri