With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia By Oliver Holmes and Ajit NiranjanBangkok is used to absorbing the sudden afternoon downpours that inundate the city during the rainy season. Even streets in many central high-rise districts can briefly turn into…
Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’ Associated Press The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight has described how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed…
Israeli officials investigating if incident, which forced plane to make emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, was attempted terror attack William Christou in Beirut One of the pilots of a plane flying from the UAE to Israel stabbed his co-pilot and appeared to try to crash the plane, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said ,…
Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party says Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies A senior member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ruling party was beaten to death on Sunday after appearing on a radio programme to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, a…
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history Seham Tantesh in Gaza City It took all day to clear a section of road in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City. At the end of it, Ahmed Alyan, a UN…
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island Staff and agencies Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday. David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday:…
As winter approaches, Kyiv fears disruption to vital networks that keep banks, payment systems and public services running Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv Russia has opened a new front in its campaign against Ukraine, hitting several datacentres and internet providers in Kyiv this week in an apparent attempt to weaken the digital backbone of the economy….
Sanae Takaichi has been under domestic pressure to publicly support the ICC, after the US sanctioned the court and its Japanese president Justin McCurry in Tokyo Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has voiced her country’s “consistent support” for the international criminal court (ICC), after Donald Trump urged member states to abandon the body, calling it “out of control”. In her speech…
The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination Robert Mackey Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US had struck an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, after threatening for much of his second term…
Drinking locally made alcohol is common in Nigeria, especially in rural areas where it is more affordable and poorly regulated Associated Press At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction suspected to contain methanol, officials said on Thursday. Banji Ajaka, Ondo state’s…