PARIS: Global rice prices reached a 15-year high in August after top exporter India banned some overseas sales of the grain, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. While global food prices eased in August, those of rice rose 9.8 per cent compared to the previous month, “reflecting trade disruptions
NETFLIX has spent years trying to adapt Japanese manga and anime into liveaction TV with little success, but its latest effort, “One Piece”, may finally have cracked the code. The US streaming giant’s latest show, based on the most famous manga comic of them all, was watched more than 18
BEIJING: China’s consumer price index rebounded in August as the world’s second-largest economy emerged from deflation, official data released yesterday showed, despite sluggish domestic consumption that is complicating the country’s post-COVID economic recovery. Last month’s CPI, the main gauge of inflation, rose 0.1 per cent year on year, the National
MOSCOW, Russia: Russia said it had thwarted Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and its region on Sunday, the second such incident in two days as Kyiv presses ahead with a counteroffensive. Both sides have reported regular drone incursions during the conflict, with strikes on Russian territory becoming increasingly regular. “At around 4am
TOMIOKA, Japan: Japanese premier Fumio Kishida said Sunday that his government has not yet decided when to begin releasing treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Media reports suggest that the discharge of some of the 1.34 million metric tonnes of water, which Japan insists is
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least 18 people burned to death on Sunday when an overnight bus smashed into another vehicle carrying diesel in eastern Pakistan, officials said. The accident took place on a motorway at around 4.30am (2330 GMT on Saturday) near the town of Pindi Bhattian in eastern Punjab province. “Within five
WASHINGTON: A 55-yearold woman who holds dual French and Canadian nationality was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison on Thursday for sending a letter containing deadly ricin to then-US president Donald Trump. Pascale Ferrier pleaded guilty in January to violating prohibitions on possession or use of banned biological weapons.
BANGKOK, Thailand: One person has died and another remains missing after a boating accident in southern Thailand, police said Sunday. The tourist boat struck a waterspout and capsized, throwing seven Thai passengers into Ban Laem district’s Bangtaboon river in Phetchaburi province on Saturday evening. Four women and a man were pulled from
NICE, France: Three people died in a fire that erupted early Sunday in a residential building in the French Riviera city of Grasse, firefighters said. Three others were seriously injured, and four had lighter injuries, they said, adding that the fire had been extinguished. “The condition of the victims can always change,”
WASHINGTON, United States: The Miss Universe Organisation has cut ties with its Indonesia franchise, as it announced days after allegations of sexual harassment, and will cancel an upcoming Malaysia edition. In the complaint, more than a dozen women said all 30 finalists for Miss Universe Indonesia were unexpectedly asked to strip for
