SINGAPORE: A man who made a bomb threat on a Singapore Airlines flight was on Friday (Nov 4) sentenced to four weeks’ jail on Friday (Nov 4) for slapping a cabin crew member. He was given a discharge amounting to acquittal for making the bomb threat, after the prosecution indicated last monthContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea’s barrage of missiles this week was a vivid illustration of how tracking and intercepting waves of missiles at different altitudes and trajectories is a complex task – even in peacetime. The challenge was evident in conflicting and sometime contradictory details released by South Korea and Japan aboutContinue Reading
Unsubstantiated social media posts flagging an aim to relax COVID-19 rules in March have also driven optimism all week and seemed to get new momentum on Friday from the appearance of Guang Zeng, former chief expert of epidemiology, at a Citi investor conference on the topic of China’s exit fromContinue Reading
MORBI, India: A senior administrative official in the Indian town of Morbi has been suspended by the Gujarat state government following the collapse of a bridge that led to the death of 135 people, the chief minister’s office said on Friday (Nov 4). The colonial-era suspension footbridge in Morbi, overContinue Reading
The Russian military – under instruction from Vladimir Putin – is rewriting the rules of siege warfare for the 21st century. The classic definition of a siege is: “The process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the […]Continue Reading
A boat bobbing on the Gulf of Thailand carried the ashes of four-year-old Pattanan Mumklang.Continue Reading
PHUKET: Two Russians and a Thai woman were killed and two Frenchmen injured in a crash involving two motorcycles and a taxi in Muang district early Friday morning.Continue Reading
CNA was earlier named global winner for Best News Website or Mobile Service at the 2022 WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Worldwide.Continue Reading
It has been reported that Iran is preparing to transfer short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use against targets in Ukraine, allegedly as part of a shipment of 1,000 additional weapons of unspecified type. Iran has allegedly already transferred a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia. Many of these drones have been used […]Continue Reading
THREATS For now, Mr Khan’s campaign truck has become a crime scene, cordoned off and guarded by commandos as forensic experts comb the area. Overnight, thousands of Mr Khan’s supporters gathered for a peek, many waving party banners. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Thursday the attacker had been takenContinue Reading