For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale National Park in Uganda spend their days eating fruits and leaves, resting, traveling and grooming in their tropical rainforest abode, but this stable community then fractured and descended into years of deadly vio
Australia and Singapore yesterday agreed to the continued flow of refined fuel and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the trading partners boosted ties amid a shaky ceasefire between the US and Iran.Australia relies on imports for an estimated 90 percent of its refined fuel products, of which about one-
Britain on Thursday said that it had tracked and deterred three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long “covert operation” in waters in the North Atlantic near vital undersea cables and pipelines.Disclosing details of the joint mission with Norway and other unspecified allies, British Secretary
SUPERFAN: The Japanese PM played keyboard in a Deep Purple tribute band in middle school and then switched to drums at university, she told the British rock band
Legendary British rock band Deep Purple yesterday made Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s day with a brief visit to their high-profile superfan as they returned to the nation they first toured more than half a century ago.Takaichi’s reputation as an amateur drummer, and a fan of hard rock and
A drone strike on the paramilitary-controlled town of Kutum in Sudan’s North Darfur state has killed at least 32 civilians, including women and children, a medical source and three residents said on Thursday.The strike on Wednesday came amid a surge in drone attacks by both Sudan’s army and the para
‘COLLAPSE OF PROTECTION’: More than 320 aid workers were killed in 21 countries last year, while 383 were killed distributing food and medicine in 2024, a UN official said
More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed across the globe in the past three years, nearly triple the death count in the previous three years, the UN said on Wednesday.“This is not an accidental escalation — it is the collapse of protection,” UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Af
In the cramped backroom of a theater, Vicki Taylor glued together tiny figurines that peered over electrical boxes, canoed down drainage pipes, and hid in nooks and crannies waiting to be found by someone curious enough to get on their hands and knees to search.Taylor and her husband, Rick Taylor, o
Argentine lawmakers yesterday approved a bill promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei that authorizes mining in ecologically sensitive areas of glaciers and permafrost, a step environmentalists and scientists have said would weaken protections and threaten water resources.The amendment to the s
A Long Island architect who led a secret life as a serial killer on Wednesday pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.Rex Heuermann, 62, entered the pleas in a courtroom packed with reporters, poli
ON EDGE: Rocky ties with NATO members would likely continue after the president lashed out, but its head said that despite Trump’s criticisms, most Europeans had been helpful
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vented his frustration with NATO during a private meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte as relations in the military alliance reached a crisis point over the Iran war.“He is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies, and I can see his point,” Rutte sa
Facing daily barrages of Russian drones and missiles, Ukraine has invited private companies to get their own air-defense systems in a bid to ease the burden on its military.A senior Ukrainian military official said the plan — involving state authorization and integration into the air force coordinat
SOUTH KOREAEscaped wolf closes schoolsA wolf that escaped from a zoo remained at large yesterday, authorities said, prompting a local school to close over safety concerns as the search continued. The male wolf — born in 2024 and weighing about 30kg — escaped from a zoo at a theme park in Daejeon on
ONGOING DISPUTE: US attorneys are still seeking to deport Salvadoran immigrant Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite an agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees
The wife of a US soldier was released on Tuesday from a federal immigration detention facility where she had spent nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base.The detention of 22-year-old Annie Ramos, the Honduran born-wife of a US Army staff sergeant preparing to deplo
TOUGH ON CRIME: The top candidates vowed to take on extortion gangs and hitmen, with one saying she would establish courts with judges who conceal their faces
A comedian, an autocrat’s daughter and a businessman who likens himself to a cartoon pig lead the polls ahead of Peru’s presidential vote on Sunday, but a crowded field leaves plenty of room for surprise.Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the polarizing late Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and a perenn
Japan wants to significantly boost the number of women in the military by the mid-2030s, the Japanese Ministry of Defense has said, as it struggles to convince young people to enlist.Under a new target set this year, women should account for 13 percent of troops in the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF
US journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, was released on Tuesday, US and Iraqi officials said.The development came after the powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement that it had decided to free Kittleson, who was abducte
The world’s largest stadium, Southeast Asia’s biggest exhibition hall and hundreds of major road, aviation and energy projects — Vietnam is building faster than ever in its self-proclaimed “era of national rise.”The country last year broke ground on more than 550 infrastructure projects in a spree t
A pet ostrich on Tuesday went for a speedy jaunt down a busy Thai highway, before being returned safe and sound to its enclosure at an animal-themed cafe.The six-month-old male ostrich raced along a three-lane highway in Thailand’s coastal Chonburi Province as cars and trucks sped by the flightless
JAPANScaffold collapse kills twoA 12-story scaffold collapsed on Tuesday, killing two workers and leaving one missing, local media reported. The 40m structure gave way during the dismantling of a crane at a JFE Steel construction site in Kawasaki, public broadcaster NHK reported. Aerial footage show
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