Solomon Islands lawmakers yesterday elected former Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeremiah Manele as prime minister.Manele used his first speech as leader to promise to govern with integrity and to put his nation’s interests first.“I will discharge my duties diligently and with integrit
‘INSANE WAR’: Suhail al-Hindi, a senior Hamas official, said that a ceasefire would not happen if it meant ‘raising the white flag to the conditions of the Israeli enemy’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday urged Hamas to accept a Gaza truce plan despite an Israeli warning that the army would keep fighting the Palestinian militant group after any ceasefire.Mediators have proposed a truce deal that would halt fighting for 40 days and exchange dozens of h
A Pennsylvania man who credits an alligator named Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade said that he is searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia.Joie Henney has thousands of people following his social media pages devoted to Wal
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) is struggling to contain its biggest mpox outbreak and scientists say a new form of the disease detected in a mining town might more easily spread among people.Since January, Congo has reported more than 4,500 suspected mpox cases and nearly 300 deaths
The Philippines yesterday summoned a senior Chinese envoy to protest a water cannon incident that damaged two Philippine vessels during a patrol in the South China Sea on Tuesday.A Philippine Coast Guard vessel and another government boat were damaged in the incident near Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan
CAMBODIAMinistry explains explosionA huge explosion at a military base that killed 20 soldiers and injured many others was an accident caused by a “technical issue” stemming from the old and degraded ammunition that was being moved, the Ministry of Defense said yesterday. The ministry’s statement fo
Two men stand next to a flooded street after heavy rain in Encantado, Brazil, on Wednesday. At least 10 people died and 21 were missing in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, authorities said.
WORKERS’ DAY: Police in Istanbul detained dozens of people who marched toward Taksim Square, which had been declared off-limits by the Turkish government
Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals and European cities took to the streets yesterday to mark May Day with protests over rising prices and government labor policies and calls for greater labor rights.May Day, which falls on May 1, is observed in many countries to celebrate workers’ right
CRYPTO PROSECUTION: Zhao Changpeng’s wealth surged by US$25 billion last year as the crypto industry recovered, making him the world’s 42nd richest person
Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (趙長鵬) was ordered to spend four months in prison for failures that allowed cybercriminals and terrorist groups to freely trade on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.Zhao, 47, was sentenced on Tuesday by US District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, Washington. T
Le Tuan Binh keeps his Moroccan soldier father’s tombstone at his village home north of Hanoi, a treasured reminder of a man whose community in Vietnam has been largely forgotten.Mzid Ben Ali, or “Mohammed” as Binh calls him, was one of tens of thousands of North Africans who served in the French ar
Paul Auster, the prolific US novelist whose works included The New York Trilogy, has died of complications from lung cancer, a friend of the novelist said. He was 77.Auster died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by family, including his wife, Siri Hustvedt, and daughte
China’s Fujian aircraft carrier took to the water for maiden sea trials yesterday, Chinese state media said, a key next step in a vast naval build-up by Beijing as it carves out a more assertive role for itself in the Pacific and beyond.The Fujian is China’s third aircraft carrier after the Liaoning
A fisherman collects dead fish caused by renovation works and the ongoing hot weather from a reservoir in Dong Nai, Vietnam, on Tuesday.
CHINAHighway collapse kills 19A section of a highway collapsed early yesterday in southern China leaving at least 19 people dead, local officials said, after heavy rain in the area in the past few days. Eighteen cars fell down a slope after a 17.9-meter-long section of the highway collapsed, authori
ANTIWAR: Universities are grappling with how to clear out encampments as graduation ceremonies approach, with some continuing negotiations and others turning to force
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University (CU) in New York early yesterday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.Video
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Committee is to gather in July for a key meeting known as a plenum, the third since the body of elite decisionmakers was elected in 2022, focusing on reforms amid “challenges” at home and complexities broad.Plenums are important events on China’s political
Southeast Asia’s severe heatwave is pushing temperatures and power demand to new records, straining grids and prompting traders in the region to bulk up on natural gas cargoes.More than three dozen districts across Thailand’s 77 provinces have seen record temperatures last month, generally the hotte
HEALTHY HABITS: The Brazilian city has enlisted school cafeterias to help students discover classic fruits and vegetables and break their addiction to processed food
Chicken with potatoes, carrot-and-cabbage salad: It looks like a detox meal, but it is the menu at a school cafeteria in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is seeking new ways to fight childhood obesity.Nearly one-third of children in Brazil are obese, an epidemic city health officials and community lead
The White House on Monday said it viewed the reported role of the Indian intelligence service in two assassination plots in Canada and the US as a serious matter.The Washington Post reported that an officer in India’s intelligence service was directly involved in a foiled plan to assassinate a US ci
CHINAScientist protests evictionThe first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in the nation was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Virologist Zhang Yongzhen (張永振) wrote in a post on Weibo on Monday that he and his team were suddenly notified they