17-04-2023 SEOL: After spotting a North Korean vessel temporarily crossing the disputed western sea boundary, South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots to repel their potential obtrusion. The North Korean patrol vessel, which crossed the North Limit Line at around 11am on Saturday, was moving in the waters while …

17-04-2023 TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a day after narrowly escaping an attack, pledged to assure the security of Group of Seven dignitaries visiting Japan, starting with tighter protection for climate ministers assembling in Sapporo. Japan’s environment minister Akihiro Nishimura said Sunday: “My security has become even heavier this …

17-04-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ JALABSAR: Twenty five years ago, a teenage boy in India was wrongly sentenced to death as an adult for murder. In March, the Supreme Court freed him after confirming that he was a juvenile at the time of the incident. The BBC’s Soutik …

17-04-2023 TOKYO: Five bodies were found Sunday following a deep-sea dive in search of a Japan Self-Defense Forces helicopter that went missing earlier this month with 10 personnel aboard off the southern prefecture of Okinawa, the Ground Self-Defense Force said. The SDF have been working to recover the bodies as …

17-04-2023 TUNIS: Tunisian footballer Nizar Issaoui has died from burns sustained in a protest against “police injustice”, his family said, in which he set himself on fire. He had appeared in a video posted online showing him shouting that he had been accused of terrorism by officers after a dispute …

17-04-2023 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: An Australian man who recently returned to the country after living overseas has been charged with supplying sensitive information to foreign intelligence agents. Fifty-five-year-old IT specialist Alexander Csergo was arrested by Australian Federal Police (AFP) shortly after he landed back in Sydney. The authorities say …

17-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Christians filled Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday for an important Orthodox Easter ritual, despite restrictions by Israeli police. The Holy Fire ceremony drew huge crowds to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in occupied East Jerusalem, where Israeli Police control security. It sits on the site where …

17-04-2023 LAS VEGAS: China’s Zhilei “Big Bang” Zhang has set his sights on Ukraine’s heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk after dealing Britain’s Joe Joyce his first professional defeat. Referee Howard Foster stopped the fight in the sixth of 12 scheduled rounds at London’s Copper Box Arena on Saturday night after …

17-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Extreme views adopted by some local, state and federal political leaders who try to limit what history can be taught in schools and seek to undermine how Black officials perform their jobs are among the top threats to democracy for Black Americans, the National Urban League says. Marc …

17-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Doctors say hundreds of people have also been injured as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces continues for a second day. The sounds of gunfire and heavy artillery reverberated through Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, for a second day as medics said at least 56 civilians were killed in …