Category: Rest of World News
Vietnam: Vietnam police find 2,000 dead cats intended for traditional medicine
HANOI: Vietnamese police have discovered around 2,000 dead cats intended for use in traditional medicine, state media said Friday.The bodies of the felines were found…
Ukraine: How a tiny NATO nation tackled a big problem: Arming Ukraine
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg’s military consists of fewer than 1,000 troops, one cargo plane, two helicopters shared with police forces and fewer than 200 trucks, ranging from…
Auckland: Passengers take 16-hour flight to nowhere after Auckland to New York U-turn
NEW YORK: Passengers boarding a trans-Pacific flight from Auckland to New York on Thursday evening had no idea of the rude awakening that awaited them:…
Japan’s first next-generation rocket aborts before launch
Japan’s much-vaunted launch of its flagship rocket was a fizzer — a disappointing result as competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX intensifies and the island nation…
First global summit on AI in military makes strong case for a human in the loop
THE HAGUE: The perfect storm is coming. And there is no forecast model for it. Artificial-Intelligence (AI)-driven and directed weapon systems are revolutionising warfare and…
Welch: Raquel Welch, actress & 60s sex symbol, dead
Raquel Welch, the movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century, died on Wednesday at…
Adel: ‘Saif al-Adel is Qaida chief, has $10m bounty on head’
DUBAI: Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer and a high-ranking member of al-Qaida with a $10 million US bounty on his head, is…
Pakistan: China consular office closed for system upgrade, confirms Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday confirmed that China has temporarily closed down the consular section of its embassy in Islamabad due to a system upgrade, downplaying…
Neruda: Was Pablo Neruda murdered? New report on poet’s death says maybe
When Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, perhaps the nation’s most celebrated figure, died in 1973, the official cause was cancer. Butthere has long been suspicion that…
Taliban: Taliban display rare division in public over ban on women education
ISLAMABAD: A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani gave a…