SEOUL:The daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who has been seen in public may be his first child and she may be one of the “candidates” who could inherit his power, the head of a South Korean think tank said on Friday. The remarks by Koh Yu-hwan, head of the Korea Institute for National […]
BERLIN:Germany has slipped into recession as last year’s energy price shock takes its toll on consumer spending.Output in Europe’s largest economy dropped 0.3% in the first three months of the year, following a 0.5% contraction at the end of 2022, official data showed Thursday. The Federal Statistical Office downgraded its previous estimate of zero growth […]
CANBERRA:A 15-year-old boy was arrested after firing a gun in the parking lot of a secondary school in Two Rocks, Western Australia. Western Australia Police Force said officers were called to the school on Breakwater Drive following reports that an unknown male had discharged a firearm in the car park, reports Xinhua news agency.The police […]
JOHHANESBURG:A total of 17 people have died of cholera since its recent outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of South Africa’s administrative capital Pretoria, the Department of Health in Gauteng Province said. To date, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera has reached 29, while 17 people have passed on from the disease outbreak, the department said […]
SEOUL:The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. Thursday’s drills, the first of the allies’ five rounds of firing exercises until mid-June, mark […]
WASHINGTON:The U.S. State Department’s top China policy official Rick Waters is set to step down at a time of fraught relations between Washington and Beijing. Waters, deputy assistant secretary of State for China and Taiwan who leads the department’s recently created China House policy division, will leave his role on June 23 and remain a […]
NEW YORK:US President Joe Biden has nominated General Charles Q. Brown, a former Indo-Pacific leader and advocate of close defence ties with India, to be the nation’s top military officer. Biden is set to formally announce the nomination of Air Force head Brown as the next joint chiefs of staff on Thursday, according to media […]
SYDNEY:Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a three-day visit to Australia, on Wednesday raised the issue of attacks on temples in the country and said that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had assured to take “strict actions against such elements in the future.” During a joint address with his Australian counterpart Albanese, PM Modi said, […]
DHAKA:Bangladesh has the highest death toll from extreme weather, climate and water-related events in Asia, recording 520,758 fatalities from 281 events between 1970 and 2021, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO issued the report for the quadrennial World Meteorological Congress, which opened on Tuesday with a high-level dialogue on […]
SYDNEY:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a bilateral meeting with his Australian counterpart in Sydney, Australia.The meeting was also attended by India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. PM Modi was on Wednesday accorded a Ceremonial Guard of Honour at the Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia and […]