Thursday, 16 April 2026

Category: World

Back to plastic!

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to

USAID headquarters abruptly closed

WASHINGTON: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters was closed on Monday, with employees instructed to work remotely, United Press International (UPI) reported.

Hundreds of federal websites go offline

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of US government websites, including USAID’s, were offline on Monday, an AFP review found.  The outage affected over 350 federal sites from a

A 1,000-year-old wonder restored

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has completed the restoration of a more than 1,000-year-old brick temple on the north side of Phnom Krom Temple in the UNESCO-listed

Samsung heir cleared of fraud charges

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics chief Lee Jae-yong was cleared again Monday of a raft of charges linked to a controversial 2015 merger which prosecutors claimed was