MAWLAMYINE (Myanmar): Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country yesterday to help with relief efforts after rising waters left thousands stranded and the death toll from a landslide jumped to 51. Every year monsoon rains hammer Myanmar and other countries across Southeast Asia, submerging homes, displacing residents and
SHANGHAI: The death toll from Typhoon Lekima rose to 32 in eastern China, local authorities said yesterday, as rescue teams worked to find more than a dozen people still missing after the storm triggered a landslide and forced the evacuation of more than a million residents. The monster storm hit
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a “new weapon” test, state media reported yesterday, the latest in a series of launches that US President Donald Trump has played down as Washington seeks to restart nuclear talks with Pyongyang. The report carried by the Korean Central News Agency followed
JERUSALEM: Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers clashed at a flash point Jerusalem holy site yesterday as overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays led to tensions there. Separately on the Gaza border, a Palestinian shot at Israeli soldiers, who returned fire and killed him in the third such incident in recent days,
TOKYO: Japan’s former empress Michiko has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and will soon undergo surgery, the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) said on Friday. Michiko’s husband Akihito formally stepped down as emperor in April, the first abdication for 200 years in the world’s oldest monarchy. A spokesman for the
OSLO: A gunman armed with multiple weapons opened fire in a mosque near Oslo on Saturday, injuring one person before being overpowered by an elderly worshipper and arrested, Norwegian police and witnesses said. Hours after the attack, the body of a young woman related to the suspect was found in
POLICORO (Italy): Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini embarked on a southern tour to rally support on Saturday, demanding an election date be set after he pulled out of the coalition government, plunging the country into a political crisis. “The only thing I am interested in is that we fix
BEIRUT: Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents in north-west Syria killed 70 combatants on Saturday, as government forces continued to nibble away at territory held by its opponents, a war monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate, has since January controlled most
MONTREAL: Dozens of cable cars at a Canadian tourist hotspot crashed into a forested hillside after a vandal attack severed overhead wires, police and operators said. Thirty cabins fell to the ground when the two-kilometre haul rope at the Squamish Sea-to-Sky Gondola was cut before dawn on Saturday. “We believe
TORONTO (Canada): Serena Williams won the rematch Friday, dominating Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 to ensure the Japanese star won’t leave Toronto with a title to go with her number one world ranking. Williams fired 12 aces and didn’t face a break point as she beat Osaka for the first time