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The Myanmar military’s deterioration in the face of rapid gains by anti-junta fighters has alarmed China. (AFP pic) NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will travel to China this week to attend regional summits, state media said today, in the embattled top general’s first visit to the influential neighbouring nation since he seized power […]
Prints depicting Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, part of the Reigning Queens series by Andy Warhol at museum Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (AP pic) OISTERWIJK: Two works by artist Andy Warhol were stolen during the night of Thursday to Friday from a gallery in the south of the Netherlands, while two other screenprints […]
Indian and Chinese soldiers exchanged boxes of sweets today to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali. (Indian army/AFP pic) NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese troops exchanged boxes of sweets today at two points on their contested high-altitude border, a week after the leaders of the Asian rivals held a rare meeting. China and India, the […]
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is the Philippines’s largest rebel group. (AFP pic) MANILA: At least 11 people were killed in southern Philippines during a fierce gun battle and knife fight that broke out between warring command units of an armed rebel group, authorities said today. The Philippines army and police reported 11 dead during […]
Officials have said more than 100 of Europe’s most dangerous criminal networks operate in Belgium. (AFP pic) BRUSSELS: A court in Belgium sentenced more than 100 people in a mass drug trafficking trial on Tuesday which authorities hailed as a major victory in the battle against drug gangs. Belgium has been on the frontline in […]
Mozambican police stand guard in the streets of Maputo last week following the disputed Oct 9 election. (AP pic) JOHANNESBURG: Police in Mozambique killed at least 11 people and injured more than 50 others in violence after a disputed presidential election this month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. Protests have rocked the southern African […]
Police caution tape marks the area around a body lying on the street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. (AP pic) MEXICO CITY: Authorities in Mexico’s Sinaloa state said on Sunday that at least 14 people were killed the day before amid a wave of violence that erupted after drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada’s arrest […]
Smoke rises from buildings after Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut today. (AP pic) BEIRUT: Lebanon’s state news agency today reported an Israeli raid on southern Beirut, after Israel’s army issued a fresh evacuation call. The official National News Agency said shortly after midnight that Israel had “targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut”. The Israeli […]
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is a supporter of reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism. (AFP pic) APIA: Commonwealth members selected Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as secretary-general of the 56-nation club headed by the UK’s King Charles, the Commonwealth said on Saturday, the final day of a summit in Samoa attended by Charles and Queen Camilla. Representatives of […]
The US announced that Israel’s strikes on Iranian military targets were a response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack. (The White House pic) WASHINGTON: Israeli strikes on military targets in Iran are “an exercise of self-defence” following Tehran’s ballistic missile attack earlier this month, the United States said late Friday, adding it was informed ahead of […]