Thursday, 24 July 2025

Category: World

Apartment block fire kills eight

HANOI: A blaze that tore through an apartment block in Vietnam’s southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City killed eight people, including two children,

Typhoon Danas kills two, injures hundreds

TAIPEI: Typhoon Danas battered Taiwan’s west coast early yesterday, killing two people, injuring hundreds and leaving nearly 400,000 households without electricity, authorities said.  The storm

Text exposed cop’s racist kill mindset

SYDNEY: An Australian police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous teenager was a racist drawn to “high adrenaline policing”, a landmark inquiry found yesterday.

BRICS stands firm with Iran

Rio de Janeiro: Iran won the support of fellow BRICS nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, with the bloc condemning recent Israel and

Suriname’s first woman president

PARAMARIBO: Suriname has elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as its first woman president, following her party’s strong showing in May’s legislative elections. The 71-year-old former opposition leader

Total Israeli withdrawal

RIO DE JANEIRO: BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday called for negotiators to reach a quick and unconditional ceasefire to end the 22-month-old

Historic civil service purge

HANOI: Sipping green tea in his garden of roses, ex-communist party official Nguyen Van Cuong says he is “jobless but happy” after Vietnam cut 80,000 state