MEXICO CITY, Mexico: A supermarket explosion killed at least 23 people in northern Mexico on Saturday, according to local officials, with investigators saying the blast was an accident, possibly caused by a faulty electric transformer. “Sadly, a number of the victims we’ve found were minors,” Alfonso Durazo, the Governor of
HUNTINGDON, United Kingdom (UK): UK police arrested two suspects after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train late Saturday that left 10 people in hospital, nine likely with “life-threatening injuries”. Armed police, backed by police cars and a fleet of ambulances, swarmed a railway station in the eastern rural town
NEW YORK, United States (US): Meta raised USD30 billion in debt on Thursday, as tech giants flush with cash turn to borrowing to finance the expensive race to lead in artificial intelligence (AI). On a day when Facebook parent Meta’s share price plunged on the heels of disappointing quarterly earnings,
MADRID, Spain: Kylian Mbappe struck twice as Real Madrid romped to a 4-0 win over Valencia on Saturday night to move seven points clear at the top of La Liga. Jude Bellingham and Alvaro Carreras also scored for the rampant hosts as they racked up an easy victory ahead of
LONDON, England: Mohamed Salah’s 250th Liverpool goal ended the Premier League champions’ losing streak in a 2-0 win against Aston Villa, while leaders Arsenal beat Burnley to surge seven points clear on Saturday night. Elsewhere, Manchester United were held to a 2-2 draw at struggling Nottingham Forest and Chelsea won
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands: World-famous for its canals, bikes and tolerance, Amsterdam celebrated 750 years since its founding on Monday, but the Dutch capital is now grappling with the very modern problems of overtourism and a housing shortage. At exactly 7:50 am, in torrential rain, Mayor Femke Halsema cut into a
HUE: Thousands of people in Vietnam were evacuated from their homes after record rainfall of more than one metre in 24 hours submerged a central city, the environment ministry said Tuesday. Three measuring stations in the city of Hue recorded rainfall from one metre to 1.7 metres (five feet seven
JAPAN: The gunman accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe pled guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers
TOKYO, Japan: Japan’s new premier, Sanae Takaichi, lavished US leader, Donald Trump, with praise and vows of a “golden age” of ties on his visit to Tokyo Tuesday, before inking a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals. Takaichi, Japan’s first woman prime minister, pulled out all the stops
MOSCOW: Russian oil giant Lukoil will sell its overseas assets, the company said late Monday, after it was hit with US sanctions over the war in Ukraine. US President Donald Trump last week slapped Russia with his first significant sanctions package, targeting two top oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, after