WASHINGTON: A 20-year-old man armed with an assault rifle has been arrested at a Walmart store in the mid western US state of Missouri and charged with making a “terrorist threat”, police said. Dmitriy Andreychenko, who was wearing body armour and fatigues, was detained by an armed off-duty firefighter who
SEOUL: North Korea conducted the latest in a series of missile launches yesterday to protest US-South Korean war games, just hours after US President Donald Trump expressed his own frustration with the exercises. Defence officials in Seoul said what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles were fired at daybreak
SRINAGAR (India): Big queues formed in Kashmir’s main city yesterday outside cash machines and food stores as Indian authorities eased a crippling curfew to let the Himalayan region prepare for a major Muslim festival, residents said. But huge numbers of troops remained on the streets a day after security forces
STOCKHOLM: An explosion rocked a Copenhagen police station in the early hours yesterday, causing damage but no injuries just days after a similar blast at the national tax agency. The glass entrance doors were shattered and debris was scattered on the ground outside, images showed. The cause of the explosion
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Lebanese gathered Friday in Beirut for a protest concert in solidarity with a home-grown band being cancelled from a top music festival over alleged blasphemy. Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead singer is gay and whose Arabic lyrics tackle a range of taboo topics, were supposed to play in
LONDON: Nearly one million people were affected by a major power outage for several hours across areas of England and Wales on Friday, including parts of London, causing rush-hour transportation chaos. Problems with two generators caused the massive electricity cut, the National Grid said. “This evening we had an unexpected
MONTREAL: Canadian manufacturing group Bombardier has announced it had signed a multi-billion dollar agreement to build two automated monorail lines in Egypt’s notoriously congested capital Cairo. The $4.5 billion agreement, which was signed with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels, is subject to “final signatures of supplementary documents,” Bombadier and its
NEW YORK: Barbie-maker Mattel saw its share price sink Friday after the company canceled a debt offering due to a “whistleblower” complaint. The toymaker revealed few details about the situation in a terse securities filing late Thursday, saying only that the debt issue was “terminated” to give the company opportunity
HONG KONG: Thousands of prodemocracy activists chanted for reform yesterday as they staged a sit-in at Hong Kong airport, hoping to win international support for their movement after two months of protests. “No rioters, only tyranny,” the demonstrators chanted as they began a three-day action — the latest in a
TALMONT-SAINT-HILAIRE (France): Oyster farmers in western France have sacrificed a seafood feast and put a mega-mollusc weighing 1.44kg back in the water after naming it “Georgette” in honour of a retiring worker. The 25-centimetre long oyster was discovered at Talmont-SaintHilaire in the Vendee department last Friday. “I was working in
