HANOI: The death toll in Vietnam from heavy rains and flooding caused by Typhoon Wutip has risen to seven, authorities said on Monday. Wutip made landfall in southern China at the weekend with winds gusting up to 128 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour) before downgrading to a tropical storm. Seven people have been…
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s influential former leader Hun Sen Monday issued an ultimatum to Thailand to lift border crossing restrictions or his country will ban all Thai fruit and vegetable imports in the latest round of the border spat between the two countries. One Cambodian soldier was killed on May 28 as troops exchanged fire in…
NEW DELHI: New Delhi said Monday its diplomats were helping some Indian students relocate out of harm’s way in Iran, which has come under days of deadly Israeli bombardment. Tehran has hit back with strikes against Israel since it unleashed waves of attacks against Iran on Friday, sparking global alarm that the conflict could erupt…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said five people were killed and 92 wounded Monday in Iran’s latest missile strikes on the country, raising a previous toll of four deaths. The casualties were from strikes on four sites in central Israel, the MDA said in a statement, adding those killed included “two women and…
JERUSALEM: Iran unleashed a barrage of missile strikes on Israeli cities early Monday, after Israel struck military targets deep inside Iran, with both sides threatening further devastation. AFP images showed gutted residential buildings in Tel Aviv and fires smouldering outside the coastal city of Haifa, after Israel’s army warned people to take cover from incoming…
KANANASKIS: Group of Seven leaders including US President Donald Trump prepared to hold talks Monday in the Canadian Rockies, tackling issues including whether they can find common ground on an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. The three-day gathering in the mountain town of Kananaskis marks the return to the international diplomatic calendar for Trump,…
AHMEDABAD: Indian health officials have begun handing relatives the bodies of their loved ones after one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades, but most families were still waiting Monday for results of DNA testing. While mourners have held funerals for some of the 279 people killed when the Air India jet crashed in…
AHMEDABAD: Investigators in India on Sunday recovered the second black box from the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, killing at least 279 people, authorities announced. The cockpit voice recorder has been found, PK Mishra, a senior aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said in a statement. The flight…
KANANASKIS: Europe and the United States should focus on how the bloc takes more responsibility for its defence rather than creating economic uncertainty through trade tensions, European Union President Antonio Costa said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ahead of a gathering of G7 leaders in the Canadian…
WASHINGTON: Sri Lanka has made substantial progress on an IMF-supported economic reform program, but more work is needed to reduce the Asian country’s 24.5% poverty rate, tackle corruption and reduce domestic debt, the global lender’s No. 2 official said Monday. In remarks prepared for a conference in Colombo, Gita Gopinath, first deputy managing director of…
