‘ABSURD MISTAKE’: The election commission said that there had been a failure to anticipate turnout after 14 polling stations ran short of ballot papers
South Korean riot police yesterday cleared protesters from a Seoul polling station after a 35-hour blockade sparked by a shortage of ballot papers during local elections earlier this week.Wednesday’s election was the first nationwide vote since South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took office follow
A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing and was reunited with his family, who had given up hope he would return.Dawa Sherpa was last seen on Friday last week descending the mountain, but he did not reach base camp even though his client did.The pa
As part of their clampdown on dissent, Burkina Faso’s military rulers’ latest targets have included an influential imam, several worshipers and students who criticized the junta.Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup nearly four years ago and now says that he is not presiding over a democracy
Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has named one of his youngest sons as foreign minister in a major Cabinet reshuffle — largely seen as a move to prepare for the next generation of leaders in the kingdom.As the 10th child and fourth son of the sultan, Prince Abdul Mateen is down the line of successio
More than 100,000 live cockroaches illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates, officials said yesterday.The haul of Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, worth A$200,000 (US$142,000), was seized la
COLOMBIAPresident criticizes TrumpPresident Gustavo Petro on Thursday criticized US President Donald Trump over his support of a candidate to succeed him, saying that Washington was endorsing “drug traffickers” with “genocidal” roots. Petro was reacting to Trump’s endorsement of lawyer Abelardo de l
TRADING STRIKES: Talks to end the war have stalled, with Russian shelling on Wednesday killing at least three in Ukraine, and Kyiv’s oil terminal attack killing one on the same day
Ukrainian attacks killed four people in the Russia-annexed Crimea peninsula, Kremlin-installed officials in the region said yesterday, one day after Moscow and Kyiv traded strikes on each other’s cities.Ukrainian forces had hit a non-residential part of Simferopol, the peninsula’s main administrativ
Cuban ballerina Laura Kamila Rojas is dancing her way through the transport woes, lengthy power cuts and economic hardship that now define daily life on the Caribbean island.Twirling and pirouetting as a soloist with the National Ballet of Cuba, the usually shy 25-year-old transforms into a commandi
Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, which happened 37 years ago yesterday, in a further tightening of a years-long campaign to erase what happened from public memory.Police told relative
DISCONTENT?: The loss might suggest that centrist voters have become dissatisfied with the administration of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, an analyst said
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party swept most seats in the local elections, but failed to flip the crucial Seoul mayoral seat, official results showed yesterday, in a sign that voters sought to keep a check on its power.The vote was seen as an early referendum on South Korean President Lee Jae-my
The US House of Representatives has backed a resolution seeking to halt US military action in Iran — a symbolic move that deals a political blow to US President Donald Trump, as efforts to find a deal with Tehran stagnate.Weeks of complicated talks marked by sharp rhetoric and flare-ups of violence
Gazing at two large engraved 16th-century elephant tusks on display at the Nigerian National Museum in Lagos, a guide surprised visitors by telling them: “You can touch them gently.”One of the three galleries at the museum in Nigeria’s cultural and entertainment hub has been remodeled to allow visit
ACTIONS AND REACTIONS: Conservative opposition party the PPP has taken several hard hits since the party head attempted to declare martial law and was impeached
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party (DP) is on track to win a clear majority of key local offices in a nationwide vote, providing President Lee Jae-myung a boost as he enters his second year in office.The DP is projected to secure 11 of 16 major posts in elections held yesterday for provincial gov
REARGUARD ACTION: As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, its influence around the world has waned, as other power blocs have allegedly undermined its interests
Russian President Vladimir Putin has read long-term ally Armenia the riot act: persist in wanting to join the EU and you can kiss goodbye to cheap Russian oil and gas.Putin issued the warning before a parliamentary election in Armenia on Sunday, which polls suggest the party of Western-leaning Armen
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday told lawmakers that the US is still in discussions with several countries to resettle more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted the US’ “War on Terror,” while he defended US President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light refugee admissions for tens of thousa
A Frenchman was found still enjoying his McDonald’s when police detained him yesterday for allegedly crashing a car into a fountain in Sydney, the force said.“Strangely, he was still eating Macca’s there,” Police Inspector Anderson Lessing said; perhaps a greater crime in the eyes of some of his gas
France experienced its hottest spring on record, the French weather service said on Tuesday, after an exceptional early heat wave that also broke highs for the season in England and Wales.Meteo-France said the average nationwide temperature over March to May was 13.8°C — about 1.7°C above the norm,
A French Navy vessel sails by the Russian oil tanker “Tagor,” suspected of flying a false Cameroonian flag as part of Russia’s “Ghost Fleet” and boarded by the French Navy, as it arrives in Douarnenez Bay, France, on Tuesday.
TRUCE? Despite Trump expressing hope that the two sides would stop fighting ‘for ETERNITY,’ Israel struck southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired into northern Israel
Israel yesterday conducted strikes on south Lebanon and Hezbollah fired into northern Israel, after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to halt attacks that neither side has publicly accepted.According to Lebanese authorities, Hezbollah would no longer fire into Israel under the agreeme
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