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China launched missiles and deployed dozens of fighter aircraft and navy vessels around Taiwan on Tuesday for a second day of live-fire drills aimed at simulating a blockade of the self-ruled island’s key ports and assaults on maritime targets. The two-day war games code-named “Justice Mission 2025” have been
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Bangladesh declared three days of state mourning on Tuesday for Khaleda Zia, its first female prime minister and one of the key figures on the county’s political scene over the past four decades. Zia entered public life as Bangladesh’s first lady when her husband, Ziaur Rahman, a 1971
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Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red. The light burned
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Mayor Panagiotis Plakentas fears what will happen to the town of Ptolemaida and the surrounding region when the last of the brown coal power plants in northern Greece close next year. He told AFP that eight out of 10 young people who leave the region to study never come back
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Several powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Saturday as authorities warned that the Ukrainian capital was under threat of missile attack. “Explosions in the capital. Air defense forces are operating. Stay in shelters!” Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. Ukraine’s air force also announced a countrywide air alert
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At least seven people died on Saturday when a bus carrying 19 passengers overturned on a mountainous road in Vietnam’s northern province of Yen Bai, state-run media reported. The 29-seat bus carrying a charity group was traveling downhill when it flipped and was crushed, according to Vietnam News Agency.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defenses. The Kremlin used Belarusian territory to launch its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Belarus remains a steadfast ally, though longstanding
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Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster. The 1986 meltdown at the site was the world’s worst ever nuclear incident.
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South Korean prosecutors on Friday sought a 10-year prison sentence for ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, for offenses linked to his attempt to impose martial law last year. Yoon briefly suspended civilian rule in South Korea for the first time in more than four decades on December 3, 2024, prompting massive
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Former prime minister Najib Razak faces judgment on Friday for his alleged involvement in Malaysia’s 1MDB mega-graft scandal, with a guilty verdict likely to add years to a sentence already being served. The 72-year-old stands accused of four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering
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Electricity supply across Kurdistan dropped by 1,000 megawatts due to a “teachnical issue” at Khor Mor gas field, one of the largest in the Kurdish region, the Kurdish ministry of electricity said on Thursday. The Ministry of Natural Resources, together with the UAE’s Dana Gas teams, which jointly
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Ukraine used British Storm Shadow missiles to attack a Russian oil refinery on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said. The Novoshakhtinsk refinery was hit by the missiles and “numerous explosions” were recorded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a social media post. It has already used
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The Al-Shabab extremist group remains the greatest immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the region, especially Kenya, UN experts said in a report released Wednesday. Despite ongoing efforts by Somali and international forces to curb operations by Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab, “the group’s ability to carry out complex,
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A grand jury has declined to indict the father of two Kentucky State University students who was charged with murder in an on-campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. In a social media post after the Tuesday hearing, defense attorney Scott Danks said grand jurors decided not
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Nigeria police said Thursday that they suspected a suicide bomber was behind the blast that killed several worshippers in a mosque on Christmas eve in the country’s northeastern Borno state. A police spokesman put the death toll at five, with 35 wounded. A witness on Wednesday told AFP that
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing on Wednesday of a long-range surface-to-air missile at a launch site near its east coast, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. The test, aimed at assessing the country’s strategic technology for developing a new type of high-altitude missile, destroyed targets