US govt shutdown begins
2 October 2025
WASHINGTON: The US government began shutting down yesterday after lawmakers and President Donald Trump failed to break a budget impasse during acrimonious talks that hinged
WASHINGTON: The US government began shutting down yesterday after lawmakers and President Donald Trump failed to break a budget impasse during acrimonious talks that hinged
TAIPEI: Taiwan “will not agree” to making 50 per cent of its semiconductors in the United States, the island’s lead tariff negotiator said yesterday, as
SIDOARJO (Indonesia): Desperate parents yesterday demanded Indonesian officials speed up efforts to find dozens of children missing in the collapse of a school, with rescuers
BOGO: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to at least 69 yesterday, a disaster official said, with scores of
DOHA, Qatar: Key Muslim nations have thrown their weight behind a plan by United States (US) President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza,
KABUL: Afghanistan faced a second day without internet and mobile phone service yesterday, after Taliban authorities cut the fibre optic network. The government began shutting
JAKARTA: Raja Ampat, a famous archipelago in Indonesia’s West Papua province, has been recognised as a biosphere reserve. Among the 30 new UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves,
WASHINGTON: The United States government was heading toward a shutdown yesterday, with funding expiring at midnight and Democrats and Republicans digging in on their respective
LOS ANGELES: The creator of an AI actress who exploded across the internet over the weekend has insisted she is an artwork, after a fierce
HANOI: Long-lasting Typhoon Bualoi left swaths of Vietnam flooded yesterday, with the storm killing 19 people and wreaking havoc on homes, infrastructure and farmland. Bualoi
