International

01-09-2024 TOKYO: Almost 40,000 people died alone in their homes in Japan during the first half of 2024, a report by the country’s police shows. Of that number, nearly 4,000 people were discovered more than a month after they died, and 130 bodies went unmissed for a year before they …

01-09-2024 KUALA LUMPUR:  An extensive search for an Indian woman who disappeared into a pavement sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur hit a snag on its eighth day, as authorities now say it is “too risky” to continue deploying divers. The incident has gripped Malaysia, with some 110 rescuers working around the …

01-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has said he will vote against a ballot measure in his home state of Florida that would protect abortion rights after facing backlash from conservative supporters. The former president’s announcement came one day after an NBC News interview in which he appeared to support the measure, …

01-09-2024 BRASILIA: X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after failing to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to name a new legal representative in the country. Alexandre de Moraes ordered the “immediate and complete suspension” of the social media platform until it complies with all …

31-08-2024 TRIPOLI/ BENGHAZI: More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political factions over the central bank and oil revenue threatens to end a four-year period of relative peace. …

31-08-2024 SAVANNAH, GEORGI: Kamala Harris defended some personal shifts in policy toward the center on Thursday and said she might name a Republican to her cabinet if elected, in her first interview with a mainstream news organization since Democrats nominated her for president. “I think the most important and most …

31-08-2024 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Yemen’s Houthis have released a video that appears to show their fighters boarding the oil tanker Sounion and detonating explosives on the ship that the group previously attacked in the Red Sea earlier this month. The footage released on Thursday comes amid international fear of a major …

31-08-2024 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Ukraine’s deep strikes against Russian military targets and its three-week-old ground offensive inside Russian territory have appeared to be yielding military and political results during the past week. Russia was reported to be moving its aircraft back from airfields near the Ukrainian border while glide bomb attacks …

31-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: “My heart is filled with so much pain. Even today, I cry when I think about how that one encounter destroyed my life.” The year was 1992. Sushma* said she was 18 when a man she knew took her to an abandoned warehouse …

31-08-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official …