NO PAY: Some airports are experiencing more than 40% callout rates and more than 480 TSA officers have quit amid the funding shutdown, the acting TSA head said
Pressure is mounting on the US Congress to end a funding shutdown that has resulted in travel disruptions, missed paychecks and even warnings of airport closures, but lawmakers have yet to resolve the underlying issue of reining in US President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operations.Senat
A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young woman because of an addictive design of their social media platforms, ordering the companies to pay US$6 million in damages, including US$3 million in punitive damages.The verdict hands plaintiffs in more than a thousa
Japanese ground forces are set to participate in military exercises in the Philippines for the first time in post-World War II history next month, marking the deepening of ties between Manila’s and Tokyo’s armed services as both countries face strained relations with China.About 300 Japan Ground Sel
A retired US colonel behind a privately financed rocket launch site in the Dominican Republic sees the project as a response to China’s dominance of the space race in Latin America.Florida-based Launch on Demand is slated to begin building a US$600 million facility in a remote region near the border
BANGLADESHBodies recovered from crashRescue teams including navy divers have recovered 24 bodies from a bus that plunged into a river at a ferry crossing, officials said yesterday. The bus on Wednesday sank into the deep waters of the Padma River in Goalanda. It had about 50 passengers on board, man
US President Donald Trump is in May to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) during his first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip postponed due to the Iran war.Trump's effort to reschedule the trip reflected the Republican president's eagerness to project confidence in a challen
BUILDUP: The US is to send at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, in addition to about 5,000 marines, sources said
Iran has received a US 15-point plan for a ceasefire for the Iran war through intermediaries from Pakistan, officials in Islamabad said yesterday.The proposal was sent even as Washington began to move paratroopers to the Middle East to back up a contingent of US Marines already heading there.Iran’s
PART ONE: In the next phase of the trial a judge would determine whether Meta should pay for public programs to address the harms social media causes
A New Mexico jury on Tuesday determined that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, a verdict that signals a changing tide against tech companies and the government’s willingness to crack down.The landm
The US space agency is to invest US$20 billion to develop a base on the moon, while suspending its plans to create the lunar orbital space station known as Gateway, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said on Tuesday.“The agency intends to pause Gateway in its current form and shift focus to infrastru
A retired Hong Kong police superintendent on Tuesday denied spying for Beijing, telling a London court he played no part in directing shadow policing operations for China on UK soil.Yuen Chung Biu (袁松彪, also known as Bill Yuen), 65, a dual Chinese-British national, is on trial at the Old Bailey unde
An Australian dog credited with saving more than 100 koalas from bushfires is retiring after a decade of service.Bear, an 11-year-old Australian Koolie, was one of the first dogs in the country to be trained on the scent of koala fur.The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) called using dogs
Denmark’s Social Democrats, led by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, finished first in Tuesday’s general election, but posted their weakest showing in more than 120 years, as the left-wing bloc failed to secure a majority.With all votes counted in metropolitan Denmark, the left bloc was credi
Scientists in Geneva on Tuesday took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.If the so-called antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annih
PARLIAMENT: Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is tipped to win, earning praise for her leadership after fending off Trump’s repeated demands to annex Greenland
Danes yesterday began voting in general elections, with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seen as the favorite after standing up to US President Donald Trump over Greenland.The latest polls gave the left-wing bloc, for which Frederiksen is the self-proclaimed candidate, a nine-seat lead over t
A military transport plane with 128 people on board, mostly soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off on Monday in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, killing at least 66 people and leaving dozens injured, the head of Colombia’s armed forces said.General Hugo Alejandro Lopez Barreto said that four military
POLLUTION: Pakistan and Bangladesh had the highest average PM2.5 concentrations, while French Polynesia and Puerto Rico recorded the lowest, IQAir Group said
Global air quality declined in 2025, with more cities reporting standards below international health guidelines on the impact of severe wildfires and pollution from sectors including fossil fuels and agriculture.Data from almost 9,500 cities showed 14 percent met WHO standards for annual average con
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang (謝陽) has been sentenced to five years in prison for “inciting subversion,” the US group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said late on Monday.Xie, who has defended Christian and pro-democracy activists, was detained in January 2022.The 54-year-old faced years of
Each spring, a pink veil unfolds across the plains of Greece’s largest peach-producing region. The blossoming peach trees create a spectacular sight that attracts visitors every year, mostly from Greece, but also increasingly from the rest of Europe.“It’s something that people must experience and se
The sun was not quite up as Eric Helera unlocked the doors of his jeepney, wiped down its two long passenger benches, and checked his brake fluid before another day ferrying Manila commuters.The makeshift minibus named Princess is part of a smoke-belching, colorfully decorated fleet that forms the b
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