US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be “silent” on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave.Ripping up outgoing US Presid
SIPHONING MISSION: The owner of the sunken ship has contracted a company to secure the industrial fuel, with the coast guard bracing for contingencies
There was no indication that industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay had started to leak, the Philippine Coast Guard said yesterday, as it planned to siphon off the highly toxic shipment to prevent a spill.The MT Terra Nova had left Bataan province en route t
Through a basement door in southeastern Turkey lies a sprawling underground city — perhaps the country’s largest — which one historian believes dates back to the ninth century BC.Archeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city “almost by chance” after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near
At least 26 people were reportedly killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) north, UN and police officials said yesterday.“It was a very terrible thing ... when I approached the area, I saw that there were children, men, women. They were killed by a group of 30 young men
Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an e-mail: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive.Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then two years old, slipped past a faulty gate in the backyard of their home in
JAPANFour missing in floodsHeavy rain in the past week has triggered floods and landslides, with four people missing as of yesterday, including two police officers. The rain had subsided in Yamagata and Akita prefectures, but the area was still at risk of flooding and landslides. One person was miss
‘RADICAL LEFT LUNATIC’: Trump earlier criticized Kamala Harris, his new opponent, calling her ‘the ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe’
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on voters to defend the country’s democracy as he explained his decision to drop his bid for re-election and throw his support behind US Vice President Kamala Harris.As “the defense of democracy is more important than any title,” Biden said that he was step
X-37B COMPARISON: China’s spaceplane is most likely testing technology, much like US’ vehicle, said Victoria Samson, an official at the Secure World Foundation
China’s shadowy, uncrewed reusable spacecraft, which launches atop a rocket booster and lands at a secretive military airfield, is most likely testing technology, but could also be used for manipulating or retrieving satellites, experts said.The spacecraft, on its third mission, was last month obser
India and the UK launched a new technology security initiative expected to boost economic growth and deepen collaboration, the two countries announced during the first official visit to India by British Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs David Lammy.According to the
A video showing a British police officer kick and stamp on a man’s head during an arrest at Manchester airport in northern England sparked a protest outside a police station late on Wednesday night.Police said they had referred the actions to an independent complaints watchdog after the video, filme
Japan’s total population last year declined for the 15th straight year, dropping by more than 500,000 people as the population ages and births remain low.Births in Japan hit a record low of 730,000 last year. The 1.58 million deaths last year were also a record high.Japan’s population was 124.9 mill
The world’s largest platypus conservation center has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia.The four platypuses — two females and two males — were released over the past two weeks into a custom-built research facility at Taronga W
A man reacts on Wednesday as others leave for the night after a search at the scene of a landslide in Gofa, Ethiopia. Residents of Kencho Shacha Gozdi were searching for survivors and bodies for a third day after the landslide killed at least 229 people.
200,000 VICTIMS: Nearly one in three children and vulnerable adults in care from 1950 to 2019 were abused, including rape, sterilization and electric shock, an inquiry found
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday apologized and vowed reforms after a public inquiry found that about 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and religious care over the past 70 years.Nearly one in three children and vulnerable adults in care f
Soaring high across a gorge in the rugged Himalayas, a newly finished bridge would soon help India entrench control of disputed Kashmir and meet a rising strategic threat from China.The Chenab Rail Bridge, the highest of its kind in the world, has been hailed as a feat of engineering linking the res
Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea yesterday hit the South Korean presidential compound, security officials said, prompting Seoul to mobilize chemical response teams in the escalating propaganda war.It was the first time the South Korean leader’s office in downtown Seoul, which is protected
CALLS FOR CEASEFIRE: Jewish Voice for Peace said 400 people had already been arrested, while more protests were planned for the Israeli PM’s address to Congress
The arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touched off a flurry of protests in Washington, including a sit-in at a congressional office building that ended with multiple arrests. Some of the demonstrations have condemned Israel, but others have expressed support while pressuring Ne
The pop world has coalesced rapidly around US Vice President Kamala Harris’ last-minute candidacy, as she gets a boost from an online explosion of videos mixing her speeches with hit songs.Janelle Monae, John Legend and Charli XCX are among the star musicians who have publicly backed Harris to run f
NEPALPlane crash leaves 18 deadA passenger plane yesterday crashed on takeoff at about 11:15am in Kathmandu, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage, but all 18 others aboard killed, police said. The Saurya Airlines flight was carrying two crew and 17 of the company’s staff members, police
‘TERRORISM’: Israel slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that he has revealed his ‘true face’ by embracing the ‘rapists and murderers of Hamas’
Hamas yesterday announced that it had signed an agreement in Beijing with other Palestinian organizations, including Fatah, to work together for “national unity,” with China describing it as a deal to rule Gaza together once the war ends. Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅), who hosted