
Ex-president, 11 others indicted over alleged interference in Marine death case
SEOUL, South Korea: The special counsel investigating the 2023 death of a Marine said today it has indicted former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on charges

SEOUL, South Korea: The special counsel investigating the 2023 death of a Marine said today it has indicted former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on charges

SYDNEY: Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said yesterday, as Canberra prepares to enforce

HANOI: Rescuers plucked stranded people from the rooftops of submerged homes as widespread flooding inundated central Vietnam, where authorities said yesterday at least 16 people

JAKARTA: Hundreds of Indonesians were staying in temporary shelters yesterday after a volcano on the main island of Java erupted, with officials evacuating around 190

SEOUL: A South Korean ferry ran aground after the helmsman became distracted by his mobile phone, a member of the coast guard told AFP yesterday.

MOKPO, South Korea: Human error was likely to blame for a passenger ferry’s running aground off South Korea’s southwestern coast this week, the Coast Guard

TOKYO: One person was unaccounted for while 175 others were evacuated as a major fire engulfed a residential area in Japan, the local government said

YANGON: Myanmar’s military said yesterday it raided an internet scam hub on the Thai border, arresting nearly 350 people, part of a highly publicised crackdown

NEW YORK: Nearly half of the global population of 8.2 billion live in cities across the world today, according to a UN report released Tuesday,

LONDON: England will ban the sale and supply of wet wipes containing plastic, a huge cause of pollution and sewer blockages, the UK government announced