Biden announces new US arms, ammunition package for Ukraine

US President Joe Biden announced Sunday a new weapons package for Kyiv, as he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima.
21 May 2023, 06:03 AM

Armed attack against rally drivers leaves 10 dead in Mexico

A shooting targeting a group of amateur rally drivers in the northern Mexican town of Ensenada, near the US border, left 10 dead and nine wounded on Saturday, authorities said
21 May 2023, 05:11 AM

Plane crash in Swiss mountains kills 3

Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland's Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said
21 May 2023, 02:46 AM

Russian decision to outlaw Greenpeace ‘absurd’

Climate advocacy group Greenpeace on Friday criticised Russia’s decision to label it an undesirable organisation, which criminalises its work, as absurd and destructive.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Will do ‘whatever we can’ to solve Ukraine crisis

India will do “whatever we can” to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged yesterday as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia’s invasion.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Ukraine wins access to F-16s at G7

President Volodymyr Zelensky huddled with G7 leaders on a landmark visit to Hiroshima yesterday, securing long-sought access to US fighter jets and mounting a diplomatic offensive.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Magnitude 7.1 quake strikes east of New Caledonia

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck yesterday in the Pacific Ocean to the east of New Caledonia, the US Geological Survey said, a day after a major quake hit the same area.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

40 killed in bloody week for Burkina Faso

Around 40 people have been killed in a fresh wave of attacks in Burkina Faso, in areas where jihadist attacks are rife, sources said on Friday.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Sudan fighting enters 6th week

Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and last morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

FBI routinely accessed Americans’ private communications: court

The FBI frequently abused a restricted database of Americans’ personal communications, looking up the names of crime victims and participants in Black Lives Matter protests and the 2021 Capitol assault, documents released Friday showed.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

War is not an option

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen yesterday vowed to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in the face of increased military pressure from China, saying that “war is not an option”.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia’s Wagner claims Bakhmut

Russia’s Wagner private army claimed yesterday to have finally captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after the longest and bloodiest battle of the war, while Kyiv denied the city had fallen though it called the situation there critical.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Everest is ‘dry, more rocky’

Mount Everest is losing snow and turning “dry and rocky”, British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said yesterday.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

HRW calls on govt to ‘respect rights’

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday called on the Pakistani government to uphold human rights while prosecuting the “more than 4,000 people” arrested in the wake of violent protests that followed former premier Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

G7 calls for ‘responsible’ use

The world must urgently assess the impact of generative artificial intelligence, G7 leaders yesterday, announcing they will launch discussions this year on “responsible” use of the technology.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

G7 Bloc wants ‘constructive, stable’ relations with China

G7 leaders yesterday warned China over its “militarisation activities” in the Asia-Pacific region but said the bloc also wanted “constructive and stable relations” with Beijing.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

NASA taps Bezos’s Blue Origin to build Moon lander

Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a rival space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, to build a second lunar lander.
20 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Ukraine wins access to F-16s at G7

Moscow says supplying the advanced jets to Kyiv would carry 'colossal' risks for West
20 May 2023, 12:44 PM

Apple restricts use of ChatGPT for employees

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence tools for its employees as Apple develops similar technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing a document and sources
20 May 2023, 10:04 AM

Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in US Senate, to run for president

Republican US Senator Tim Scott has entered the 2024 presidential race, according to a filing with the US election regulator on Friday, in what amounts to a long-shot bet that a message of unity and optimism can still appeal in a party where many voters are hungry for a bare-knuckled fight.
19 May 2023, 18:23 PM