Category: Rest of World News
A presidential candidate in Ecuador has been shot and killed at campaign event
QUITO: Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed Wednesday by unidentified gunman while at a political rally in the country’s capital of Quito,…
Fernando Villavicencio: Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio killed at campaign event
QUITO: Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed on Wednesday, President Guillermo Lasso said, vowing the murder will not go unpunished. Local media had earlier…
North Korea’s Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the military’s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in…
North Korea invites foreigners to Pyongyang golf tournament
SEOUL: North Korea has invited foreign golfers to a tournament in Pyongyang, another possible sign of the reclusive country’s reopening after Chinese and Russian officials…
Typhoon Khanun lashes southern Japan, South Korea; another storm looms
TOKYO/SEOUL: Flights were cancelled and trains halted on Wednesday as heavy rain from Typhoon Khanun pounded southern regions of Japan and South Korea, just as…
South Korea: Japan, South Korea issue warnings as storm Khanun moves north
TOKYO: Airlines cancelled several hundred flights and authorities issued warnings Wednesday as tropical storm Khanun barrelled off Japan‘s southern coast towards South Korea. The storm,…
Explainer: How a rusty naval ship is inflaming China-Philippines tensions
China on Tuesday repeated its call for the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship — a rusted-out World War II relic used as a…
No more ice cream with Mt Fuji: Japan train line phases out snack carts
TOKYO: Passengers on Japan’s super-fast bullet trains have long enjoyed ordering coffee, ice cream or boxed lunches from staff pushing a snack cart, savouring the…
Drug Overdose: Heatwave, overflowing toilets at South Korea’s ‘cursed’ scout jamboree
SEOUL: South Korea was evacuating tens of thousands of scouts on Tuesday from a problem-plagued jamboree campsite ahead of a typhoon, days after a heatwave…
Thailand: Second son of Thailand’s king makes surprise return after 27 years
BANGKOK: The second-eldest son of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn visited a child-care centre for underprivileged families on Tuesday during a surprise visit to the kingdom,…