CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces have withdrawn from the city of Jenin and a refugee camp there, following a 10-day episode of "violent aggression", says the Palestine news agency (WAFA). Twenty-one people were killed in the city and camp, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Friday (Sept 6). A Reuters witness said the Israeli...
HANOI (Reuters) - Typhoon Yagi and the landslides and floods it triggered have killed at least 24 people and injured another 299 in northern Vietnam on the weekend, the government said, as authorities on Monday warned of more flooding. The typhoon was Asia's most powerful storm this year and made landfall on the country's northeastern coast...
Allenby Bridge, Ahmad GHARABLI (AFP) - A truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan Sunday before being "eliminated", Israel's military said, as it pounded Hamas targets in Gaza. The rare attack at the Allenby Bridge crossing comes amid soaring violence in the West Bank with...
ISTANBUL: A flight operated by India’s Vistara Airlines made an emergency landing on Friday (Sept 6) around 4.30pm (9.30pm in Singapore) in Erzurum in eastern Turkey, after a piece of paper with “bomb on board” written on it was found in a lavatory, Turkish officials said. Two bomb disposal experts and one search dog were continuing...
YANGON: Two people have died and over 600 others have been hospitalised with severe diarrhea in Hlaingtharya township of Myanmar's Yangon region from July 5 to Monday (Sept 2), an official from the Ministry of Health told Xinhua on Friday (Sept 6). The health official said that the two deceased had underlying health conditions. As of Tuesday,...
AVIGNON, FRANCE (AFP): The daughter of a Frenchman on trial for enlisting strangers to rape his drugged wife described him as "likely one of the worst sexual criminals in past 20 years". Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, has admitted to abusing his wife without her knowledge between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and...
MANILA: Alice Guo, also known as Guo Hua Ping, has been handed over to the Philippine National Police (PNP) custodial centre in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Friday (Sept 6)afternoon after appearing in a court in Tarlac. Guo left the custodial centre on Friday at around 9:40am and police brought her to the Tarlac Regional Trial...
BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Thailand's Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers finally tracked down and arrested a British fugitive who had been hiding in Thailand over the past two years pretending to be a boxer. CSD chief Pol Maj-General Montree Theskhan said on Tuesday that Ben Ransom, 28, was tracked down to a restaurant in Phuket’s Muang...
South Korean pop idols are often objects of fantasy, prompting malicious internet users to feature their likenesses in deepfake pornographic photos and videos. This phenomenon is becoming so widespread in South Korea that a major K-pop label has declared its intention to take legal action. JYP Entertainment, the entertainment company representing girl band TWICE, announced on August...
BANGKOK: In the lush farmlands of Thailand, a quiet revolution is taking place, spearheaded by an unlikely innovator: 17-year-old (Win) Chawinthorn Akkaratatta (pic). This young visionary is bridging the gap between traditional farming practices in Thailand and modern technology, empowering small-scale farmers with the likes of both engineering and economics. Win's journey began on his father's durian...
