TAIPEI: Taiwan will fully reopen its borders by ending mandatory Covid quarantine for arrivals next month, the government said Thursday. The island has largely kept its borders closed and implemented strict quarantine rules throughout the coronavirus pandemic, keeping infection numbers low at the expense of being internationally cut off. The
IZUMI, Japan: Millions of people in Japan were under evacuation warnings on Monday as Typhoon Nanmadol brought strong winds and heavy rain to the southwest of the country after making landfall overnight. The powerful system has weakened since arriving on land Sunday evening around Kagoshima city in the southwestern region
SAN JOSÉ: At least nine people were killed and four left missing when a bus and two other vehicles plunged into a ravine in a mountainous part of Costa Rica, the Red Cross reported Sunday. The bus, car and motorcycle slid into the 75-metre-deep ravine on Saturday when heavy rain
LONDON: Britain’s new Queen Consort Camilla paid tribute Sunday to Queen Elizabeth II for carving her own role as a “solitary woman” in a world dominated by men. In her first public comments broadcast since Queen Elizabeth’s death, King Charles III’s wife said it must have been so difficult for
BEIJING: Twenty-seven people were killed in a bus crash in southwest China on Sunday, police said, in the country’s deadliest road accident so far this year. The crash took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying 47 people in total flipped onto its side, police
MINAMATA, Japan: Thousands of people took refuge in shelters in southwestern Japan on Sunday as powerful Typhoon Nanmadol churned towards the region, prompting authorities to urge over four million residents to evacuate. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a rare special warning for the Kagoshima and Miyazaki regions in
BANGKOK: A gunman killed one person and wounded two others in a shooting at a military facility in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police told AFP. Deputy national police spokesman Kissana Phathanacharoen said a suspect had been detained after the incident at the Army Training Command Department, part of a large
BALLATER, United Kingdom: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II embarks on her final journey on Sunday with thousands of her mourning subjects expected to line her coffin’s route from the Scottish retreat where she died. The solemn departure of the queen’s oak casket from Balmoral Castle for Edinburgh marks the start of
PORT MORESBY: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit off eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, with locals reporting damage to buildings near the coastal town of Madang and further inland. The US Geological Survey, which reported the quake, issued a tsunami warning but subsequently said the threat has now passed. It did,
LONDON: Poignant photographs of Queen Elizabeth II dominated the front pages of Britain’s grieving newspapers on Friday, charting her journey from coronation to matriarch of the nation. A picture of the 27-year-old Elizabeth taken at her 1953 coronation, full of regal splendour clasping the Sovereign’s Orb and Sceptre in the
