LONDON, United Kingdom (UK): French President Emmanuel Macron wraps up a three-day state visit to Britain on Thursday with a summit aiming to “reboot” defence ties with a focus on joint missile development and nuclear co-operation. Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are also expected to discuss maintaining support
THE latest instalment in the blockbuster dinosaur saga – ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ – stomped the July 4 weekend competition at the North American box office, raking in a whopping USD91.5 million in its debut, industry estimates showed Sunday. The Universal film, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, takes
HANOI: A blaze that tore through an apartment block in Vietnam’s southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City killed eight people, including two children, local authorities said yesterday. The fire was sparked late Sunday on the ground floor of a five-storey apartment block, with all eight fatalities due to
TAIPEI: Typhoon Danas battered Taiwan’s west coast early yesterday, killing two people, injuring hundreds and leaving nearly 400,000 households without electricity, authorities said. The storm brought “destructive” gusts of up to 222 kilometres (138 miles) per hour to southwest Taiwan, where it made landfall late Sunday, the Central Weather Administration
SYDNEY: An Australian police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous teenager was a racist drawn to “high adrenaline policing”, a landmark inquiry found yesterday. Racist behaviour was “normalised”, too, in his Alice Springs police station, it said. The findings were delivered nearly five years after the shooting of 19-year-old
Rio de Janeiro: Iran won the support of fellow BRICS nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, with the bloc condemning recent Israel and US air strikes that hit military, nuclear and other targets. “We condemn the military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran since 13 June 2025,”
PARAMARIBO: Suriname has elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as its first woman president, following her party’s strong showing in May’s legislative elections. The 71-year-old former opposition leader was the sole candidate after rivals withdrew last week. Her National Democratic Party (NDP), which won 18 of the 51 seats, secured a two-thirds parliamentary
RIO DE JANEIRO: BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday called for negotiators to reach a quick and unconditional ceasefire to end the 22-month-old war in Gaza. “We exhort the parties to engage in good faith in further negotiations to achieve an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire,” the 11-nation
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Malaysia will conduct a comprehensive review of potential membership in the New Development Bank (NDB), taking into account various aspects, including the required commitments and the effectiveness of participation in the institution, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. He made the statement after holding a
WASHINGTON: US tariffs will kick in on August 1 if trading partners from Taiwan to the European Union do not strike deals with Washington, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday. The rates will “boomerang back” to the sometimes very high levels that President Donald Trump had announced on April 2
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