Melania Trump has voiced strong support for abortion rights in her upcoming memoir, taking a stance that sharply contrasts with her husband, former US president Donald Trump, on a divisive US election issue.US Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Thursday reacted quickly to the former first lad
They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families.The adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as
The Israeli army on Thursday said that its troops had freed a Yazidi woman it said had been held in Gaza after being captured by the Islamic State group a decade ago, then trafficked to the Palestinian territory.The army said the 21-year-old woman of Yazidi origin was rescued in a coordinated and co
PLANETARY DEFENSES: Europe’s Hera is being sent to conduct a ‘crime scene investigation’ in the hope of learning how to best fend off asteroids that pose a threat
Europe’s Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch on Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth’s planetary defenses.In a scene that sounds straight out of science fiction, the spacecraft deliberately crashed
US country music star Garth Brooks stands accused of raping a makeup artist in her hotel room in a lawsuit filed in California on Thursday, in the latest claim of sexual wrongdoing to rock the entertainment world.The woman, identified in the filing as Jane Roe, says the singer also repeatedly subjec
‘ONE MORE ATTACK’: The UN said Israel’s ban on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres entering was a political statement, but that contact would continue
Israel yesterday carried out a deadly airstrike in central Beirut after eight ground troops were killed near the Lebanese border as it traded threats with Iran over possible attacks.The Israeli military kept up its bombardment of the Lebanese capital after Iran launched its largest missile attack ye
PROTESTS: A crowd near Congress waved placards that read: ‘How can we have freedom without education?’ and: ‘No peace for the government’
Argentine President Javier Milei has made good on threats to veto proposed increases to university funding, with the measure made official early yesterday after a day of major student-led protests.Thousands of people joined the demonstration on Wednesday in defense of the country’s public university
Scientists yesterday announced a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that might provide insight into the brains of other organisms and even people.The research detailed more than 50 million connections between more than 139,000 neu
There were long lines of container ships outside major US ports yesterday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day, preventing unloading and threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts.No negotiations were scheduled between the International
Flights resumed yesterday at a regional Japanese airport after a World War II US bomb blew up less than a minute after a passenger jet taxied past.Miyazaki airport in southern Japan originated in 1943 as an imperial Japanese navy base, sending dozens of kamikaze aircraft on suicide missions.Footage
JAPANDeath penalty defendedMinister of Justice Hideki Makihara said abolishing the death penalty would be “inappropriate,” despite the recent acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row prisoner. The policy — always carried out by hanging — “would be inappropriate to abolish,” as “heinous cri
‘VOICE FOR ALL’: After the inauguration, Mexico’s first female president attended a ceremony at which she was blessed and given a wooden ‘staff of authority’
Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday was sworn in as Mexican president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programs, but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence.After a smiling Sheinbaum took the oath of office on the floor of Congress, legislators shouted: “P
US vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and J.D. Vance on Tuesday focused their criticism on the top of the ticket as they engaged in a policy-heavy debate ahead of November’s US presidential election.It was the first encounter between Minnesota’s Democratic governor and Ohio’s Republican senator.Wal
‘BARBAROUS ACTS’: The captain of the fishing vessel said that people in checkered clothes beat them with iron bars and that he fell unconscious for about an hour
Ten Vietnamese fishers were violently robbed in the South China Sea, state media reported yesterday, with an official saying the attackers came from Chinese-flagged vessels.The men were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars of fish and equipment on Sunday off the Parace
Nintendo yesterday opened its first museum in a renovated factory in Kyoto, Japan, showcasing the long history of the video game giant from playing cards to Super Mario.The company began life in 1889 producing Japanese playing cards called hanafuda as well as Western-style ones.Nintendo launched its
Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday — the first-ever former US president to reach the century mark and another milestone for the one-time peanut farmer who found his way to the White House.Carter’s longevity — he began hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, more than 19 month
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon.Webb for the first time detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide — both frozen as solids — on the surface of Charon, a spherical body about 1,200km i
GENDER GAP: That was down from five in Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet, and well below female representation in other G7 nations, with a rights advocate terming it a backslide
New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Prime Minister yesterday appointed only two women to his 20-strong Cabinet, down from five previously, in what a rights group said represented a “backslide” in Tokyo’s push for greater female representation in politics.Ishiba, who held off a challenge from
NON-STICK: The former Dutch prime minister earned the nickname for his ability to ride out scandals, including earthquakes caused by extraction at a gas plant
A laid-back people person known for holding firm when things get tough, Dutchman Mark Rutte will need all those skills to lead NATO through one of its most challenging times.Often pictured cycling to work, the 57-year-old yesterday started his new position as NATO secretary-general, charged with ste
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