WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has appointed a national security lawyer who entered the foreign service just four years ago as the top official overseeing the State Department's global workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter and an internal email seen by Reuters. The hiring of Lew Olowski to run the department's Global...
SYDNEY: (Bernama-Xinhua) An out-of-control bushfire burning in the suburbs of Perth, the capital city of Australia's state of Western Australia (WA), has prompted an emergency evacuation warning, reported Xinhua. Residents of parts of the suburb of Ferndale, 10 km southeast of central Perth, were on Thursday (April 3) morning advised to leave immediately due to the...
LONDON: World stocks, the dollar and oil all tumbled on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s drastic new U.S. trade tariffs stoked fears of a global recession and led investors to seek safe-haven assets like bonds and the yen. A new baseline 10% tariff on imported goods plus some eye-watering reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries that...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of launching new attacks against each other's energy facilities, in violation of a U.S.-brokered moratorium. Both sides said they were providing details of the alleged violations to the United States, which persuaded Moscow and Kyiv to agree to the limited truce last month as a hoped-for...
(Reuters) -Manchester City striker Erling Haaland will be out of action for up to seven weeks after suffering an ankle injury, manager Pep Guardiola said ahead of Wednesday's Premier League home game against relegation-threatened Leicester City. The 24-year-old Norway international, who has scored 30 goals in 40 matches in all competitions this season for City, picked...
SINGAPORE: More than 30 people were arrested and over 240 bank accounts were frozen following an islandwide police operation against government official impersonation scams. In a statement on Tuesday (April 1), the police said 27 men and seven women - aged between 17 and 46 - were nabbed during raids targeting suspects who gave their bank...
BANGKOK: Authorities have charged four Chinese nationals for illegally removing 32 files of documents from the collapsed 34-storey State Audit Office (SAO) building, which was destroyed by an earthquake on March 28. A legal officer from the Chatuchak District Office’s municipal affairs division filed a complaint at Bang Sue Police Station against five Chinese individuals accused...
BANGKOK: As Bangkok experienced tremors on March 28, a Korean man jumped across a broken sky walkway, 50 storeys above ground, to get from one swaying building to another where his wife and daughter were supposed to be. Thai resident Kwon Young-jun’s feat has been captured on video and circulated online amid other indelible images of...
TOKYO: Increasingly, people are holding proper funerals when they lose their dog, cat or other beloved pet. The ceremonies may be attended by Buddhism priests who read out sutras, and memorial services may follow to mark religious milestones in the afterlife of the pet. Mourning a pet as you would a family member who has passed...
LONDON (Reuters) - British business minister Jonathan Reynolds said the government was hopeful that any tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump would be reversed shortly, if the two sides agree a tech-led economic deal. Britain expects to be hit by Trump's plan to put tariffs on goods from countries across the globe this week, but...
