SEOUL: North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles on Wednesday (Feb 14), Seoul’s military said, part of a string of weapons tests this year that have accompanied increasingly aggressive rhetoric from leader Kim Jong Un. So far this year, Kim has declared South Korea his country’s “principal enemy”, jettisoned agencies dedicatedContinue Reading
JERUSALEM: In refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians relying on the UN agency UNRWA for schooling and healthcare fear key services will stop as donors have paused funding over accusations staff members took part in Hamas’ Oct 7 attack. Most of the focus on the fate of theContinue Reading
KATHMANDU: About 68,000 children and their families who survived Nepal’s deadliest quake in eight years need further humanitarian aid to rebuild their lives, UNICEF said on Sunday (Feb 11), 100 days after the tremors that devastated parts of west Nepal. A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck two districts of Jajarkot andContinue Reading
BANGKOK: An official said on Tuesday ( Feb 6), only weeks before his potential release on parole, that Thailand’s attorney general is considering prosecuting past Thai elite Thaksin Shinawatra over an alleged attack of the strong king. After the military overthrew a state led by Thaksin’s girl, the junta inContinue Reading
MANILA: According to the Chinese government’s embassy in the Philippines, the government does not handle any type of cyberattacks and will not permit any nation or person to carry out for illegal actions using Chinese facilities. It provided the assurances after the Philippines announced on Monday ( Feb5 ) thatContinue Reading
SYDNEY: Following several years of tense relations between Beijing and Canberra, a Beijing court on Monday ( Feb) granted Australian writer Yang Hengjun espionage charges and suspended his death sentence. Yang’s family and supporters were surprised by the verdict, which was delivered five years after he was imprisoned in ChinaContinue Reading
According to Seoul’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration ( DAPA ), South Korea and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding on February 5 in an effort to increase defense cooperation. Seoul intends to expand its arms sales in the area. In order to maintain their participation in defense, the twoContinue Reading
MANILA: On Monday ( Feb 5 ) the defense minister of the Philippines vowed to” strictly enforce” the nation’s sovereignty, joining the chorus of security officials pledging to defend the country in response to secessionist threats made by former president Rodrigo Duterte. As his empire with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt the South Asian nation economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday (Feb 1) after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail. The special court convicted Khan onContinue Reading
MOSCOW: A North Korean delegation will visit the lower house of Russia’s parliament on Feb 13, state news agency RIA quoted a deputy from the opposition Communist Party as saying on Thursday. Communist lawmaker Kazbek Taysaev also said that a Russian parliamentary delegation planned to travel to North Korea inContinue Reading