Rescuers yesterday pulled a man alive from the rubble five days after Myanmar’s devastating earthquake, as calls grew for the junta to allow more aid in and halt attacks on rebels. The shallow magnitude 7.7 earthquake on Friday last week flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing more than 2,700 pe
A Chinese construction company is facing questions over the deadly collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper — the only major building in the Thai capital to fall in a catastrophic earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar. The 30-story tower, still under construct
Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65. The cause of death was pneumonia, the paper said, citing his daughter Mercedes Kilmer. The California-born, Juilliard-t
CIVILIAN DEATHS: At least 15 people, including children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes at dawn yesterday, Gaza’s civil defense agency said
Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz yesterday announced a major expansion of a military operation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, saying the army would seize “large areas” of the Palestinian territory. The defense chief in a statement said that Israel would expand its presence in Gaza to “destroy a
MASS GRAVE: The slain workers and their vehicles clearly showed that they were humanitarian personnel, and Israel killed them in ‘cold blood,’ the Red Crescent said
Palestinians held funerals on Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu mass grave, apparently plowed over by Israeli military bulldozers.The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRC
A fire caused by a burst gas pipe yesterday spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city, injuring more than 100 people.The towering inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights outside Kuala Lumpur was visible for kilometers and lasted for several
A volcanic eruption restarted in Iceland, with lava flow threatening the already severely damaged fishing town Grindavik.An eruption — the eighth on the same volcanic rift since late 2023 — started at 9:45am yesterday “just north of the protective barrier by Grindavik,” the Met Office said in a stat
SPACEX: Wang Chun, along with a filmmaker, a robotics researcher and a polar guide, took off on Monday on a path never flown before in 64 years of human spaceflight
A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off on Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.Wang Chun (王春), a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX’s Falcon ro
Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could help solve remaining enigmas of physics.The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91km loop along the French-Swiss border and even below Lake Geneva — published late on Monday
An Australian judge sitting on Hong Kong’s top court yesterday sided with the government to rule against former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting (林卓廷), who was jailed for revealing an anti-graft probe.Hong Kong, a common law jurisdiction, invites overseas judges to hear cases at its Court of Fi
OPTIONS: Asked if one potential avenue to a third term was having J.D. Vance run for the top job and then pass the baton to him, Trump said: ‘That’s one,’ among others
US President Donald Trump on Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.“There are methods which you cou
EMBEZZLEMENT: The far-right French leader was sentenced to four years in prison, which is to be served with an electronic tag, sidelining her from a 2027 presidential run
A French court yesterday sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to a five-year ban on running for office with immediate effect, throwing into doubt her bid to stand for president in 2027.The judge also gave her a four-year prison term, which is to be served with an electronic tag, drawing immediat
The Israeli military yesterday issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah, indicating it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.Israel ended its ceasefire with the Hamas militant group, and renewed its air and ground war earlier last
The usual festive mood of Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has been subdued in Indonesia this year, as people grapple with soaring prices for food, clothing and essential goods.Consumer spending ahead of the biggest religious holiday for Muslims, which was cel
In a shake-up of long-standing travel rules, European nationals heading to the UK would from tomorrow need a mandatory entry permit, which the British government says would strengthen border security.The electronic travel authorization (ETA) can be bought online in the next few days for ￡10 (US$13),
GREENLANDUS not getting island: PMNew Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Sunday pushed back against assertions by US President Donald Trump that Washington would take control of the territory. “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States
UNREST: The authorities in Turkey arrested 13 Turkish journalists in five days, deported a BBC correspondent and on Thursday arrested a reporter from Sweden
Waving flags and chanting slogans, many hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators on Saturday rallied in Istanbul, Turkey, in defence of democracy after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked Turkey’s worst street unrest in more than a decade. Under a cloudless blue s
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
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