NUCLEAR WARNING: Elites are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers, perhaps because they have access to shelters, Tulsi Gabbard said
After a trip to Hiroshima, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday warned that “warmongers” were pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war.Gabbard did not specify her concerns.Gabbard posted on social media a video of grisly footage from the world’s first nuclear attack and
A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the government’s already feeble writ, and pollution levels are rising downstream in Thailand.The complex is one of about a dozen extraction operations that have sprung up in Shan State since
A Beijing auction house on Tuesday sold a human-sized Labubu figure for 1.08 million yuan (US$150,260), setting a new record for the “blind box” toy as it moves from craze to collectible.The event held by Yongle International Auction, which traditionally specializes in modern art as well as jewelry,
The “unchecked expansion” of social media platforms is driving an unprecedented global mental health crisis in kids and teens, a children’s non-governmental organization said yesterday, calling for urgent coordinated action worldwide.The KidsRights report said that one in seven children and adolesce
PAKISTANDefense spending hikedThe government on Tuesday hiked defense spending by 20 percent following last month’s deadly conflict with India. The government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced the increase as part of the budget for the fiscal year 2025-2026, in which overall spending would
‘MASSIVE ATTACK’: Four people were wounded in attacks on the capital that hit at least seven districts, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, with buildings and cars on fire
Russia carried out “massive” drone attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the port city of Odesa early yesterday, killing one person and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said, calling for further sanctions.Moscow has kept up its attacks on Ukraine, which has hit back with strikes d
STOKING DISTRUST: Robert F. Kennedy Jr previously chaired a nonprofit that discouraged childhood immunizations and amplified false claims about the MMR vaccine causing autism
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Monday announced that he was dismissing all current members of a key federal vaccine advisory panel, accusing them of conflicts of interest — his latest salvo against the nation’s immunization policies.The removal of all 17 experts of
A Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving in the US at Detroit airport, the second case in days involving the alleged smuggling of biological material, authorities said on Monday.The scientist is accused of shipping biological material months ago to staff at a laboratory at the University of M
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel yesterday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, the day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza.Thunberg, 22, was put on a flight to France, the ministry said, adding
The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.A Brooklyn jury on Monday found Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste Inc, and Rachel Cherwitz, the California-based company’s former sales director, guilty aft
UNITED KINGDOMTrade talks continueUS and Chinese officials yesterday were set to meet for a second day of trade talks in London, seeking to shore up a shaky tariff truce in a spat further strained by export curbs. The gathering of key officials from the world’s two biggest economies began on Monday
Aymara participate in a march to demand that Bolivian President Luis Arce find a quick solution to a shortage of money and fuel, and the rise in the cost of living, in La Paz on Monday.
‘INTIMIDATION TACTIC’: Demonstrators said that the purpose of US President Donald Trump sending troops to the US’ second-biggest did not appear to be to keep order
Demonstrators on Sunday torched cars and scuffled with security forces in Los Angeles as police kept protesters away from the National Guard troops US President Donald Trump sent to the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.Unrest broke out for a third day, with protesters angry at action by i
A global summit on the dire state of the oceans commenced in France yesterday, with calls to ban bottom trawling and bolster protections for the world’s overexploited marine areas.World leaders attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice have been told to come up with concrete ideas — and money — to t
Israel yesterday intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat, preventing the activists onboard, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.The Madleen departed from Italy on June 1 aiming to bring awareness to food shortages in Gaza, which the UN has called
INDIAN TRAGEDIES: Between 2022 and last year, 3,090 farmers took their own lives in Marathwada, an average of nearly three a day, the agriculture minister said
On a small farm in India’s Maharashtra state, Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing that her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself.Farmer suicides have a long history in India, where many are one crop failure away from disaster, but extreme weather caused by
China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a move it said would help promote a “friendly childbearing environment.”Tertiary hospitals — those with more than 500 beds — must provide epidural anesthesia services by this year,
A bus carrying university students back to their campus smashed into a minivan yesterday in northern Malaysia, killing at least 15 people, police and rescue services said.Thirteen victims died at the scene near the town of Gerik, on the busy East-West Highway near the Thai border, while two died in
‘THE RED LINE’: Colombian President Gustavo Petro promised a thorough probe into the attack on the senator, who had announced his presidential bid in March
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a possible candidate in the country’s presidential election next year, was shot and wounded at a campaign rally in Bogota on Saturday, authorities said.His conservative Democratic Center party released a statement calling it “an unacceptable act of violence.”Th
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