HANOI/MANILA: The Philippines and Vietnam will agree to boost coast guard cooperation during a visit to Hanoi next week by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., officials said, a move that risks angering China. The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over swathes of the South
COPENHAGEN: Maersk said explosions nearby forced two ships operated by its US subsidiary and carrying US military supplies to turn around when they were transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait off Yemen, accompanied by the US Navy. "While en route, both ships reported seeing explosions close by
ADEN: Yemen's Houthi authorities have ordered U.S. and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organisations to leave the country within a month, a document and a Houthi official said. The decision follows strikes by the United States and Britain, with support from other
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations chief warned Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution will indefinitely prolong a conflict that is threatening global peace and emboldening extremists everywhere. In his toughest language yet on the Israeli-Hamas war, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a
WASHINGTON: The United States destroyed a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile that was ready to launch soon after the second round of joint American-British strikes against the Yemeni rebels, the Pentagon said Wednesday. “Shortly after taking these strikes, an additional Houthi target was struck by the US
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire: Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary election, Edison Research projected, further asserting his dominance over the party as he heads toward a likely November rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. With 14 percent of the expected vote tallied, according to Edison,
LONDON: Senior British Conservative lawmaker Simon Clarke called for a change of prime minister, saying Rishi Sunak was leading the governing party into an election later this year “where we will be massacred.” Since Sunak pushed through his Rwanda immigration plan last week, ignoring the demands
JEDDAH: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) — a 57-member bloc of Muslim countries denounced the construction and inauguration of the “Ram Temple” built on the site of the five-century-old Babri Masjid in India’s Ayodhya. In a statement issued on social media platform X on Tuesday,