Rescuers are searching for 23 missing people after a Vietnamese ship carrying 62 crew members sank in the South China Sea, Chinese state media reported Sunday morning. A China Coast Guard ship in the South China Sea. (Representative Image/ File Photo/ AFP) The cargo vessel Khoi Nguyen 18 encountered trouble near Yongshu Reef, also known…
Iraq will sign an agreement with Syria on the construction of pipelines linking oil production sites to global export markets via the Mediterranean, according to a statement. Iraq to sign an agreement with Syria on construction of pipelines linked to oil production sites. (Representational/AFP) The Iraqi cabinet authorized the director general of Basra Oil Co….
China issues highest red alert ahad of Typhoon Noul(X videos) China’s national weather authority has issued a red alert, the highest warning in its four-tier typhoon warning system, as Typhoon Noul approaches the country’s southern coastline and is expected to make landfall in Guangdong province.According to the National Meteorological Centre (NMC), Typhoon Noul, the 12th…
For years Lamu, on the coast of northern Kenya, was a tantalising symbol of unrealised promise. The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor, a colossal scheme estimated to cost $25bn, is supposed to connect a deep-water Kenyan port with markets in Ethiopia and oilfields in South Sudan via a pipeline, railway and motorway. Launched in 2012,…
Ukrainian drones struck a Siberian oil refinery in a fresh wave of strikes Saturday, as Kazakhstan’s president told Russia’s Vladimir Putin the Ukraine war should end during a forum in Siberia’s Omsk. Kazakh leader tells Putin war should end, Ukraine launches fresh strikes In occupied Ukraine, Russian-installed authorities said a Ukrainian strike had killed 12…
Maybe artificial superintelligence is just around the corner after all. How else to explain those tech CEOs who usually can’t get enough change suddenly wanting it throttled? Demonstrators at an anti-AI protest in San Francisco, July 11. Never mind that their complaints have the paradoxical flavor of the old Borscht Belt joke: The food was…
ALONG THE UKRAINE-BELARUS BORDER (AP) — More than four years after Russia launched its assault on Kyiv from Belarus, Ukraine is still fortifying the border it shares with Moscow’s ally. What was once a busy crossing between the two countries is now a quiet, mine-laden stretch of land closed off to civilians. Roads near the…
Saudi strikes attacked Yemen’s Red Sea governorate of Hodeidah on Friday. Saudi strikes attacked Yemen’s Red Sea governorate of Hodeidah on Friday, Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported, after eyewitnesses earlier said several strikes had targeted Hodeidah’s port. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Monday it would impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the…
ANKARA, July 24 (Reuters) – Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel and 91 breakaway lawmakers applied on Friday to launch a new political party, seeking to regroup to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan after their former party faced an unprecedented legal crackdown. They applied to the interior ministry to launch the so-called New Party in protest over…
July 24 (Reuters) – A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine’s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close to 100 others at a site where a defence industry event was being held, Ukrainian officials and industry representatives said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who did not name exact target, said that efforts to determine…