JAKARTA: Hundreds of Muslims in Indonesia held a protest Friday against China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang in front of China’s embassy in Jakarta. The rally was organised by hardline Islamic group the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) but was attended by members of other Muslim communities under heavy security.
BANGKOK: A Thai Navy Seal who aided with the rescue of a youth football team trapped in a flooded cave last year has died from an infection he contracted during the dramatic recovery mission. Petty Officer Beirut Pakbara fell ill with a blood infection while working to retrieve the 12
MOGADISHU: A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu yesterday, leaving at least 76 people dead and scores injured, an ambulance official said. The blast occurred in a busy area of the city where traffic is heavy because of a security checkpoint and a
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German police on Thursday stopped an inebriated 27-year old man who was caught riding an electric scooter on a motorway. Police in the western city of Cologne said they received numerous calls at around 2.20am reporting a man driving an e-scooter on the hard shoulder of the
ALMATY (Kazakhstan): Twelve people died and dozens were injured yesterday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s largest city and slammed into a house, officials said. A video released by the Central Asian country’s emergencies committee showed the plane operated by budget carrier Bek
MANILA: The death toll from Typhoon Phanfone’s battering of the Philippines on Christmas Day has risen to 28, and will likely climb further, authorities said yesterday. The storm, with wind gusts of up to 200km per hour, swept across remote villages and popular tourist destinations in the central Philippines on
MANILA: Tourists on the popular Philippine holiday island of Boracay were stranded yesterday after a typhoon swept across on Christmas Day, killing at least 16 people in other parts of the country. Typhoon Phanfone, with wind gusts reaching 200 kilometres an hour, tore roofs off houses and toppled electric posts
SINGAPORE: Skywatchers from Saudi Arabia and Oman to India and Singapore were treated to a rare “ring of fire” solar eclipse yesterday. Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is not close enough to the Earth to completely obscure the Sun, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible. While
South Korean black comedy “Parasite” will battle France’s “Les Miserables” and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory” for the best international film Oscar, in a shortlist announced recently. The films were among 10 revealed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, from which five nominees will be
A quarter-century after releasing her holiday classic that’s become one of the season’s love-to-hate, hate-to-love clichés, Mariah Carey has finally pushed “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to top the charts for the first time. “We did it,” the diva said in a tweet that featured several emojis, including
