World
Patients in Gaza's few standing hospitals are dying in droves from infections resulting from a lack of protective gear and soap, even when they survive their horrific blast injuries.And health workers are facing agonizing decisions, like giving up on a seven-year-old boy with extensive burns bec...
Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran's Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformist still in the race.Tehran's ultraconservative mayor, Alireza Zakani, announced his withdrawal in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, after earlier de...
Thailand on Thursday announced results of its complex multi-round election to choose a new senate -- the first poll for the upper house since a military coup a decade ago.Incoming senators are not backed by political parties, making it difficult to say who has won, but analysts said many of them are...
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) said Wednesday that the famed waterway continues to face a water shortage, despite recent rains alleviating most restrictions imposed following last year's drought."The waterway continues to face the impact of a prolonged dry season from this past year that ...
Sports,Cricket
South Africa demolished Afghanistan's T20 World Cup dream in ruthless fashion on Wednesday, thrashing the minnows by nine wickets with more than 11 overs to spare to reach the final of the cricket showpiece for the first time.Left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi (3 for 6) and gangling pacer Mar...
World,Back Page
Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is "facing challenges" in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said Wednesday, months after the UN warned the country had become the world's biggest producer of the narcotic.Myanmar's legal economy has been gutted by conflict and instability since th...
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin spoke by phone on Tuesday to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, Moscow's defence ministry said.The United States is one of Ukraine's staunchest military backers, contributing billions of dollars' worth of aid and ...
India's new leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday that his lawmakers would not be silenced, in his first speech since formally taking up a post vacant for a decade.Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's chief rival, was appointed by fellow opposition lawmakers to the post in a...
Three people were found without vital signs near the summit of Mount Fuji, Japanese media reported Wednesday, just days before the summer climbing season begins.Authorities have long warned climbers to take care when attempting to scale Japan's highest mountain, where hiking trails officially op...
Kenyan protest organisers called Wednesday for fresh peaceful marches against controversial tax hikes, as the death toll from nationwide demonstrations climbed to 13, an official from the leading doctors' association told AFP.The mainly youth-led rallies began mostly peacefully last week, with t...
Singapore has seized S$6 billion ($4.4 billion) linked to crime and money laundering since 2019, the wealthy city state said Wednesday, after a massive dirty money scandal marred its squeaky clean reputation last year.Singapore conducted multiple raids last year in a S$3 billion money laundering cas...
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can challenge the dominance of conservatives in the Islamic republic.A presidential election had not been due until 2025, but was brought forward after ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi died i...
Japan's government is calling for stricter oversight of US troops stationed in the country after a soldier was charged over the alleged sexual assault of a Japanese teenager in Okinawa.Prosecutors in the southern island region charged the US soldier in March, top government spokesman Yoshimasa H...
A city council in South Korea said Wednesday their first administrative officer robot was defunct after throwing itself down some stairs, with local media mourning the country's first robot suicide.South Korea's Gumi City Council announced the robot was found unresponsive after having appare...
Sports,Football
Substitute Lautaro Martinez grabbed an 88th-minute winner as Argentina finally overcame Chile 1-0 to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa America on Tuesday.Lionel Messi hit the post for Argentina in the first half but the World Cup winners had their goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez to tha...
England manager Gareth Southgate was met with boos and beer cups thrown by his own fans despite his team topping Group C as Slovenia also progressed to the knockout stages of Euro 2024 thanks to a 0-0 draw in Cologne.The Three Lions were already assured of a place in the last 16 but can expect more ...
Denmark defender Jannik Vestergaard backed his underdog side ahead of Saturday's last-16 meeting with Euro 2024 hosts Germany, saying "everything is possible".Denmark drew 0-0 with Serbia in Munich on Tuesday but qualified second in the group after the parallel England-Slovenia Group C...
Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood believes there is no "drastic" need to cull Australia's ageing squad despite the failure to make the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.Australia's 24-run loss to India on Monday pushed them to the brink of elimination from the last-four chase before Afghan...
Ten children per day are losing one or both of their legs in the war in Gaza, the head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Tuesday."Basically we have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Gen...
Beleaguered Afghans were riding high on Tuesday after reaching semi-final in the T-20 World Cup victory over Bangladesh by eight runs (DLS method) spread a rare mood of euphoria across the country."With every ball, every run, every boundary, every wicket, I wasn't able to hold my emot...
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