World
Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods while the remnants of a tropical storm trickle over the country.The Japan Meteorological Agency said "warm, moist air... was causing heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in west...
Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished.At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the the incre...
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At least 10 strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs at dawn on Friday, Lebanon's official news agency said, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for buildings in the area.AFPTV footage showed explosions followed by clouds of smoke that rang out in the city's suburbs after the Is...
Khadir Ali and his family managed to survive a harrowing paramilitary attack in war-torn Sudan. But by the time they got to safety, he realised that one person was missing."We escaped in total chaos -- there was gunfire coming from every direction," said the 47-year-old civil servant of th...
Four Thais were killed in northern Israel by rocket fire from Lebanon, Thailand's foreign minister said Friday.Maris Sangiampongsa, in a post on social media platform X, said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths close to the town of Metula on Thursday, adding another Thai citizen was...
The UN World Food Programme made an urgent appeal Friday for donors to provide early funding for South Sudan, where millions are on the brink of starvation.WFP said its stores of food supplies in South Sudan were empty and that it needed $404 million to prepare assistance for 2025 amid "spirall...
Japan and the European Union were set Friday to announce a new security partnership, which local media said would include more joint military drills, senior-level dialogue and defence industry cooperation.EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will meet his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya, who tol...
Lebanon's prime minister said US envoy Amos Hochstein had signalled during a phone call Wednesday that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war was possible before US elections are held on November 5."The call today with Hochstein suggested to me that perhaps we could reach a ceasefire in th...
The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said on Wednesday.The remains of the town, dubbed al-Natah, were long concealed by the walled oasis of ...
Sports,Football
Inter Milan consolidated their second place in Serie A on Wednesday with a 3-0 away thrashing of 10-man Empoli.Europa League champions Atalanta climbed to third with a 2-0 win over lowly Monza, as Juventus again shed valuable points and dropped to fourth with a 2-2 home draw with Parma.Resurgent Nap...
Ruud van Nistelrooy enjoyed a winning start as interim Manchester United manager by beating Leicester 5-2 to reach the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday as Manchester City crashed out 2-1 to Tottenham.Arsenal and Liverpool were among the other sides to book their place in the last eight, but Ch...
Israeli police said Thursday they had arrested an Israeli couple on suspicion of spying for Iran, barely a week after two groups allegedly working for Tehran were detained."The thwarting of Iran's efforts to recruit Israelis continues," said a statement from the police and Israel's...
China on Thursday said it was "concerned" over the situation on the Korean Peninsula, after Pyongyang said it had test-fired one of its most powerful missiles to boost its nuclear deterrent.The launch was North Korea's first weapons test since being accused of sending soldiers to Russi...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said Wednesday that it had found hazardous and banned chemicals in hundreds of cosmetic products sold across Europe.The Helsinki-based agency has inspected almost 4,500 cosmetic products in 13 European countries and found that six percent of the products -- or 28...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday hosted the first meeting of a new "international alliance" to press for the establishment of a Palestinian state.Unveiled last month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the "International Alliance to Implement the Two-State Solution" brings toge...
Human traffickers left dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, stranded on a shoreline in westernmost Indonesia on Thursday, while six dead bodies were found nearby, local officials said.Members of the persecuted minority risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys, often ...
A partial ballot recount in Georgia's contested parliamentary election confirmed the ruling party won, electoral officials said Thursday, after opposition parties alleged violations and Washington and Brussels demanded an investigation.Georgia plunged into political uncertainty following Saturda...
Business & Commerce
Saudi Arabia's new national airline, Riyadh Air, announced on Wednesday it has ordered 60 narrow-body aircraft from Airbus, as it prepares for takeoff next year.The carrier, created last year, has reached "an agreement to purchase 60 Airbus A321neo single-aisle aircraft in the latest step t...
Australia will ramp up missile manufacturing under a plan unveiled Wednesday by a top defence official, who said bolstering weapons stockpiles would help keep would-be foes at bay.Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said Australia would establish a homegrown industry to produce long-range guided mi...
Support has sunk further for Japan's embattled ruling coalition, a new poll showed Wednesday, after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party suffered its worst election result in 15 years.Backing for the government nosedived to 34 percent, while its disapproval rating came to 51 percent, accord...
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