29-08-2024 TOKYO: Japan has issued an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches its southwest, prompting carmaker Toyota to shutter factories and airlines to cancel flights. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Wednesday estimated that Typhoon Shanshan was situated 70km (43 miles) from Yakushima Island at 2pm (05:00 GMT), heading …

29-08-2024 DHAKA: Ekramul Haque was stunned when his uncle called him late in the afternoon of August 21 to inform him that floodwaters had inundated their ancestral home in southeastern Bangladesh’s Feni district, close to the Indian border. At the time, Haque was about 10km (6 miles) away in the …

29-08-2024 NEW YORK: SpaceX has postponed its attempt to launch an expedition featuring an all-civilian crew that is aiming to carry out the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens. The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, had been scheduled to take off from NASA’s space centre in Florida early on Wednesday morning. …

29-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: At least nine Palestinians have been killed in a major operation by Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Israeli security forces said they had begun “a counterterrorism operation” in Jenin and Tulkarm overnight and they had so …

29-08-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of a vaccine to combat mpox, making it the first African country to receive a batch amid the current outbreak of disease that used to be called monkeypox. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a …

29-08-2024 WASHINGTON: US Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former president Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election following his loss to Joe Biden. The new charging document tailors the allegations against Trump to the recent US Supreme Court …

29-08-2024 SINGAPORE: Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks, Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armor carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024. The mission, coordinated by …

28-08-2024 WASHINGTON/ SANA’A/ DUBAI: An oil tanker which was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea last week is still on fire and may be leaking oil, the US Pentagon says. Attempts to salvage the Greek-owned and flagged MV Sounion have been thwarted by the Houthis, who have …

28-08-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of messaging app Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France as an example of how other countries also …

28-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Police in India fired tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday (Jan 27) as they clashed with thousands of protesters seeking justice for a doctor who was raped and murdered in Kolkata this month. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body …