BEIJING: The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. A Chinese naval force was mobilized to
PYONG YANG: North Korea warned Saturday it would “destroy” US spy satellites if Washington tries “any attack” on its space asset after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North’s defence ministry said it would consider such a
UNITED NATIONS: At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council ended the world body's political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United
DUBAI: A pledge to triple the world's installed renewable energy by 2030 is poised to win support from more than 110 countries at the COP28 climate summit on Saturday, with some pushing to make the deal global by the end of the U.N. conference. The European
GAZA: Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities. Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment
MOSCOW: Russia's Supreme Court ruled that LGBT activists should be designated as "extremists", in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions. The presiding judge announced that he had endorsed a request from the justice ministry to ban
MANIPUR: On November 29, homes in conflict-racked Manipur’s Imphal were adorned with diyas and the night sky was lit with fireworks. Earlier in the day, the Union home ministry announced that the state’s oldest militant outfit, the United National Liberation Front, had signed a peace
LONDON: The UK has begun a mission to bring thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces to Britain from Pakistan. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told The Independent that the UK owed the 1,500 Afghans already relocated as part of the mission “an enormous debt,”
TOKYO: The world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity's future energy needs. Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nuclear power plants, by
DUBAI: U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way to curb global warming. Speaking a day after COP28 president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber proposed embracing the continued use