World
Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of 34 people in a mass grave in a western region wracked by criminal violence, the state prosecutor's office said Thursday.The remains were found during construction work in Zapopan in Jalisco state, home to one of the country's most powerful drug ca...
The death toll from a recent landslide near the Colombian city of Medellin has risen to 16, authorities said Thursday, with the search continuing for more missing.The landslide occurred Tuesday in a mountainside area of Bello, near Colombia's second-biggest city, after heavy rains caused a nearb...
The EU's 27 leaders on Thursday agreed to extend sanctions on Russia for another six months, resolving fears that Kremlin-friendly Hungary would let the measures lapse, officials said.The decision at a summit in Brussels means that the EU's sweeping sanctions over the war in Ukraine, includi...
Sports,Football
New Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti considers Neymar "a very important player" and has urged the injury-prone star "to prepare well" for the 2026 World Cup."He must prepare well and he has the time to do that," the Italian said in an interview with the South American footb...
Vinicius Junior scored one goal and made another with a touch of class as Real Madrid sealed their place in the last 16 of the Club World Cup with a 3-0 win over Salzburg on Thursday.The Brazil star opened the scoring after a superb defence-splitting pass by Jude Bellingham on 40 minutes and then se...
New Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso warned his team's stars including Vinicius Junior and Kylian Mbappe on Wednesday that they must all pitch in defensively.Last season under Carlo Ancelotti Los Blancos failed to win a major trophy and the Italian was at times exasperated with his forward line'...
Sports,Tennis
Can anyone stop two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz or world number one Jannik Sinner lifting the Wimbledon men's title?The two standout players in the world have gobbled up the past six Grand Slams between them, earlier this month playing out a French Open final for the ages.Novak Djokov...
Myanmar's junta torched seized narcotics worth an estimated $300 million on Thursday, but a senior police officer said drug hauls were plunging because of intensifying fighting in the country's civil war.When the junta seized power in a 2021 coup it sparked conflict between the military and ...
Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.Illegal production jumped to 3,708 tons, nearly 34 percent more than in 2022, and more than four times higher than 10 years earli...
Business
North Korea will send more troops to Russia to assist in its war against Ukraine, possibly as early as July, a South Korean lawmaker said Thursday, citing information from Seoul's spy agency.The confirmation comes just a week after Sergei Shoigu, head of Russia's Security Council, said North...
Government-sponsored vigilantes in northwest Nigeria killed more than 100 gang members in a gun battle earlier this week, a local official said late on Wednesday.For years, heavily armed criminal gangs locally known as "bandits" have been intensifying attacks in rural areas northwest and c...
Thai cannabis store owners and activists on Thursday hit out at new government plans to tighten the rules on selling the drug by requiring a doctor's approval, three years after it was decriminalised.The kingdom was the first country in Southeast Asia to decriminalise the drug when it removed ca...
Germany on Thursday urged Iran to keep working with the UN's nuclear watchdog, labelling a vote by Iranian lawmakers to halt cooperation with the IAEA "a totally wrong signal".Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told journalists that Germany "urges the Iranian government not to go do...
At least 29 pupils who were sitting their high school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a stampede after the explosion of a power transformer set off panic, the health ministry told AFP Thursday.Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams wh...
World,Back Page
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “historic victory” against Iran despite a US intelligence report concluding that American strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear program by just a few months.Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat ...
National,Back Page
Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed at least 20 people on Wednesday, including six who were waiting to collect food aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.The latest in a string of deadly incidents near aid distribution sites came after the United Nations had condemned t...
Neymar on Tuesday extended his contract with Brazilian club Santos until the end of 2025, as he attempts to recapture his form in time for next year's World Cup."I made a decision and I followed my heart. Santos is not just my team, it's my home, my roots, my history, and my life,"...
Will he play nice? That's the question for NATO leaders nervously waiting to see if a carefully choreographed show to please US President Donald Trump will pay dividends when the alliance summit gets down to business on Wednesday.Every precaution is in place to avoid a Trump blow-up at the Hague...
Iran said Wednesday that it executed three men accused of spying for Israel, the day after a truce between the two countries came into effect."Idris Ali, Azad Shojai and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, who attempted to import equipment into the country to carry out assassinations, were arrested and tried ...
Japan on Wednesday called its first surface-to-ship missile test within its territory necessary training given the current "severe security environment", as it boosts military capacity to counter China.The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) fired a single "Type-88" missile t...
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