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
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,
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,
NEW DELHI: One of India's most well-known meals outside of the country is butter chicken, which is both tasty and controversial, with two Indian restaurant groups battling it out in court over who invented it. The Gujral family, owners of a famed Delhi restaurant brand, Moti
WASHINGTON: As the Israel-Hamas conflict persists, the Ukraine situation remains unresolved, and climate disasters wreak havoc, the symbolic Doomsday Clock is set to be updated tomorrow, reflecting the proximity to potential human-made global catastrophes, Daily Mail reported. Currently set at 90 seconds to midnight since last
KABUL: The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning that future generations “may not forgive us”. Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO’s 194 member states decided more than two years ago to
MADRID: Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that authorities broke the law when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco following a mass border crossing into the tiny Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Dozens of unaccompanied migrants were among the more than 10,000 people who forced their