SEOUL: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday (Oct 6) in the direction of Japan, after the return of a US aircraft carrier to the region and a UN Security Council meeting in response to the North’s recent launches. The missile launch was the sixthContinue Reading
MANILA: Philippine Leader Ferdinand Marcos Junior on Wednesday (Oct 5) said his nation may need to consider Russia to satisfy its fuel requirements amid rising worldwide energy prices, bucking pressure from Traditional western allies for nations to shun Moscow. Speaking to the Manila Overseas Press Club, Marcos, who is alsoContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Taiwan will not likely rely on others for its defence, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday (Oct 5), while welcoming the US commitment to the democratically governed island’s security amid exactly what she called Chinese encroachment on its sovereignty. Tsai’s remarks, pre-recorded and delivered to an US audience atContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea and the US military fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said on Wednesday (Oct 5), as Pyongyang’s longest-range test yet drew international condemnation. Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)Continue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea and the US military fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said on Wednesday (Oct 5), as Pyongyang’s longest-range test yet drew international condemnation. Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: The United States asked the UN Security Council to meet on North Korea on Wednesday (Oct 4) after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile over Japan, but diplomats said China and Russia are opposed to a public discussion by the 15-member body. Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missileContinue Reading
Immediately lawmakers in Truss’s Conservative Party – some who helped force the top tax rate reversal – opposed any move to reduce the increases in benefits at a time when millions are struggling with higher costs of food and energy. Penny Mordaunt, who is in Truss’s cabinet of senior ministers,Continue Reading
GENEVA: The United Nations has revised up its humanitarian appeal for Pakistan five-fold to US$816 million from US$160 million as it seeks to control a surge in water-borne diseases following the country’s worst floods in decades, an official said on Monday (Oct 3). Nearly 1,700 people have been killed inContinue Reading
General Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the US Air Force in the Pacific, said North Korea’s possession of such a weapon was especially unsettling because, unlike other powers, Pyongyang did not consider nuclear arms to be strictly deterrents – kept but never used. “They’ve threatened to use those weapons against theirContinue Reading
FORT MYERS, Fl: A resurgent Storm Ian barreled toward South Carolina on Fri (Sep 30), a day after carving a path of damage across the Florida peninsula, washing away homes, destroying a causeway and stranding thousands along the state’s Gulf of mexico Coast. There have been reports of at leastContinue Reading