KHARTOUM: Sudan’s ruling military council said Tuesday that a brother of ousted president Omar al-Bashir who it previously announced had been detained was actually not in custody. On April 17, the military council had announced that it had detained two of Bashir’s five brothers – Abdallah Hassan al-Bashir and Al-Abbas
WASHINGTON: Five people died and one person was missing Monday after two floatplanes collided mid-air in Alaska while carrying passengers from a cruise ship’s sightseeing expedition, officials said. The two aircraft – a Beaver floatplane and an Otter floatplane – had been carrying 16 passengers from the Royal Princess cruise
BANGKOK: Scores of junta loyalists were endorsed as members of Thailand’s 250-strong senate on Tuesday, packing the upper house with allies likely to vote for coup leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s return as civilian premier after a highly disputed poll. The full list, which included the junta leader’s brother and scores of
SHANGHAI: China car sales fell 14.6 percent in April, an official industry association said yesterday, extending a slump in a massive auto market that has long been a cash cow for the industry. Sales fell to 1.98 million last month, according to figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers
LIVERPOOL: Jurgen Klopp has challenged Liverpool to use the pain of their failed Premier League title bid as fuel to finish a remarkable season with Champions League glory. Liverpool fell one point short of winning their first league title since 1990 as Manchester City pipped Klopp’s side on the final
BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton beat Valtteri Bottas in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday to replace his team-mate as world championship leader as Mercedes’ extended their record start to the season with a fifth 1-2 finish. The defending five-time world champion seized the initiative at the start in Barcelona and led
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said yesterday two of its oil tankers were damaged in “sabotage attacks” in the Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran. It came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka blocked Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms yesterday after anti-Muslim riots hit several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks. Christian groups attacked Muslim-owned shops in a sign of the continued religious tension in Sri Lanka since the April 21 attacks by
NEW DELHI: The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May rose to 77 yesterday as anger grew over millions of people still without power and water. Cyclone Fani, the first summer cyclone to hit India’s Bay of Bengal coast in 43 years,
HANOI: Vietnamese police have seized half a tonne of ketamine worth $21 million in Ho Chi Minh City, a key transit hub that has seen record busts of synthetic drugs in recent weeks as narcotics gangs use its ports and air links to shuttle drugs across the region. Three Taiwanese