YEREVAN: Armenia said Saturday that over 100,000 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh, meaning nearly all the official population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized back control. Nazeli Baghdasaryan, a spokeswoman for Armenia’s prime minister, said the number of refugees entering the country over the past week had
A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged on Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolise the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, had
BRUSSELS: Eurozone inflation fell to an almost two-year low in September, official data showed Friday, raising hopes that the European Central Bank will end its rate-hiking cycle. The ECB has increased rates repeatedly to tame red-hot inflation, but the pain is being felt across the eurozone economy. Consumer prices in
MALANG (Indonesia): Holding buckets of water, Cholifatul Nur sprinkles flowers planted at her young son’s grave and wipes clean the stone slab where a scarf of his favourite team is draped a year after his death at an Indonesian football stadium. Fifteen-year-old Jovan Farellino was one of 135 people killed
HANOI: The dramatic fluctuation in shares of Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast is “normal”, its chief executive told AFP on Friday, insisting the company was on sound footing despite racking up huge losses. Shares in the communist state’s first home-grown car manufacturer have veered wildly since it listed on the
NEW YORK: Heavy rains overnight in the northeastern United States left parts of New York under water on Friday, partially paralysing subways and airports in America’s financial capital. LaGuardia airport closed down one of its terminals, with social media images showing passengers walking through water well above the tops of
MANILA: A cat wearing a black-and-yellow security vest strolls nonchalantly past security guards lined outside a Philippine office building waiting to receive instructions for their shift. Conan, a six-month-old stray, joined the security team of the Worldwide Corporate Centre in the capital Manila several months ago. He is one of
REMPANG, Indonesia: Sitting on a creaky bridge linking stilt houses, Indonesian fisherman Sadam Husen fears for his people and their traditions, knowing they may be uprooted from their ancestral land to make way for a China-funded megaproject worth billions. The Indonesian government recently told Rempang island’s 7,500 residents to pack
JAKARTA: Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms in a new regulation, its trade minister said yesterday, as Jakarta aims to rein in direct sales on major platforms it says are harming millions of small businesses. Calls had grown in recent months for a regulation governing social media
WASHINGTON: A top executive at Apple said Tuesday he believed that Google’s search engine was the best product for its customers as he took the stand at a landmark antitrust trial. Google is facing prosecution by the US Justice Department on grounds that it illegally used its dominant position in
