With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting Internet access to using facial recognition to identify protesters, who have been forced to adapt. Amid a ban on protests, about 2,000 people have been arrest
Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group’s chief said on Saturday. “Two days ago, we received a proposal from the mediators in Egypt and Qatar. We dealt with it positively and accepted it,” Khalil al-Hayya s
Thousands on Saturday rallied outside a pro-government television station in Serbia accused of a propaganda campaign against university students behind months of massive anti-corruption protests rattling populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Private Informer television is among mainstream med
South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his relatives’ grave sites, an investigator said yesterday. More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and
PLUNDERED: Out of 650,000 pieces stolen by the Nazis in World War II, about 100,000 had not been returned by 2009, figures released by a conference showed
The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday. Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp, Belgium, w
JOINT EFFORTS: The three countries have been strengthening an alliance and pressing efforts to bolster deterrence against Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea
The US, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a Chinese military ship kept watch from a distance. The Chinese frigate attempted to get closer to the waters, where the warships and aircraft from the three allied
Israel on Friday launched an attack on Lebanon’s capital for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November last year. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from an area in the city’s southern suburbs that Israel’s milit
US Vice President J.D. Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not having done enough to protect Greenland, when he visited the strategically placed and resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump. Vance made his comment during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Gre
‘APPLE STORE-LIKE’: As Musk’s DOGE faces criticism, several polls indicate that most Americans disapprove of the disruption to the nationwide federal workforce
It has worked in the shadows for months, but Elon Musk’s US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has now offered the first peek behind the curtain of the government cost-cutting drive it launched on behalf of US President Donald Trump. Musk, the Space X and Tesla tycoon, was accompanied by sev
US President Donald Trump said he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two would meet after Canada’s election, amid an intensifying tariff war between the neighboring allies and major trading partners. “It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be
Indian security forces yesterday killed at least 16 Maoists during a fierce gunbattle, police said, as New Delhi ramps up efforts to crush the long-running insurgency. More than 10,000 people have been killed in the decades-long “Naxalite” rebellion, whose members say they are fighting for the right
People take part in a rally to protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a corruption investigation in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday.
PARIS SUMMIT: French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are discussing a ‘coalition of the willing’ for deployments in Ukraine
European countries in Paris on Thursday agreed to ramp up rather than lift sanctions on Russia over its war against Ukraine, as the UK and France began sketching out plans to send a “reassurance” force after any peace.French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the meeting of Ukraine’s European allies a
US Vice President J.D. Vance was yesterday to visit Greenland at a time when US President Donald Trump is renewing his insistence that Washington should take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.In a scaled-back version of a trip plan that had angered authorities in Greenland and Denmark,
Greenland, which US President Donald Trump wants to annex on grounds of US national and international security, is a self-governing Danish territory in the arctic covered in ice, with untapped mineral resources and geostrategic importance.“We have to have it,” Trump said on Wednesday, ahead of Vice
‘BAN ON PROTESTS’: Turkey’s repressive response to anti-government protests has drawn criticism from abroad and been sharply condemned by rights groups
Turkey intensified its crackdown over ongoing anti-government protests yesterday, arresting the lawyer of the jailed Istanbul mayor and two more journalists in connection with the country’s biggest wave of unrest since 2013.Nine days after the arrest and subsequent jailing of popular Istanbul Mayor
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures.Albanese’s Labor party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022, but most recent opinion polls show the party n
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth yesterday said that the US President Donald Trump administration would boost military ties with the Philippines to strengthen deterrence against “threats from the communist Chinese” and ensure freedom of navigation in the disputed South China Sea.Hegseth spoke du
A strong earthquake struck central Myanmar today, and people rushed out of buildings in panic in Yangon and also in Bangkok, the capital of neighboring Thailand, witnesses said.The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was of 7.7 magnitude and at a depth of 10km. It was followed by a powerful a
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