GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories): Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said. Rockets streamed across the sky repeatedly after the first launches from multiple
SINGAPORE: Air quality in parts of Singapore hit unhealthy levels on Saturday as winds brought haze from Indonesian forest fires to the city-state, its environment agency said. A prolonged dry season has led to a higher risk of wildfires on Indonesia’s major islands, stoking fears of a repeat of the
GENEVA: Global trade growth will be sharply lower than forecast this year as stubborn inflation, high interest rates and the war in Ukraine pressure economies around the globe, the World Trade Organisation said. Strains in China’s vast property market also prompted the WTO to cut its trade growth forecast to
PARIS: Global sugar prices soared to their highest level in almost 13 years in September as the El Nino weather phenomenon hit production in India and Thailand, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. While world food prices steadied as a whole last month, the FAO’s Sugar Price Index jumped
MANILA: Filipinos roared in joy and relief as their men’s basketball team ended decades of heartbreak in winning their first Asian Games gold medal in 61 years. Many in the basketball-crazy nation of 110 million people were glued to television and mobile phone screens as the “Gilas”, Tagalog for panache,
LOS ANGELES: Tens of thousands of health care workers in the United States walked off the job on Wednesday, beginning one of the sector’s largest strikes in recent history, as America’s year of labour discontent rolled on. The walkout of more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the country’s largest
TOKYO: Japan began releasing the second batch of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, an incremental step in a decadeslong process that has drawn strong condemnation from China. The discharge, a small portion of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater built up since a tsunami struck the
BANGKOK: Thai police on Thursday arrested two men accused of selling a gun to a 14-year-old suspected of carrying out a shooting attack at a Bangkok mall that left two people dead. The teenager has been charged with murder over Tuesday’s attack at the Siam Paragon mall, which police say
WASHINGTON: US manufacturing activity contracted in September by the least since late 2022, beating analyst expectations despite weakness in new orders, survey data showed Monday. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index came in better than anticipated at 49 per cent last month, up from 47.6 per cent in
BERLIN: The crisis-hit German toy company behind Playmobil, the small plastic figures loved by children the world over, said on Monday that it was cutting 17 per cent of its workforce. The Horst Brandstaetter Group, named after its founder, plans to slash nearly 700 positions worldwide by 2025, 369 of
