PHILIPPINES Eruptions force evacuations A series of eruptions at the nation’s most active volcano has prompted the evacuation of nearly 3,000 people from a danger zone on its foothills, officials said on Wednesday. Authorities raised the five-stage alert around Mayon Volcano in the northeastern province of Albay to Level 3 on Tuesday after detecting intermittent…
CONFERENCE LEAGUE Palace miss easier route Crystal Palace missed a chance to advance directly to the Conference League round-of-16 on Thursday, held to a 2-2 draw with Finnish club KuPS. Palace midfielder Justin Devenny headed home an equalizer in the 76th minute at Selhurst Park, just three minutes after the visitors were reduced to 10…
British police yesterday charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 people, and said he also tried to kill someone at a London transit station earlier the same day. British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of…
CHINA Envoy to WTO removed Senior Chinese trade negotiator Li Chenggang (李成鋼) has been removed from his post as permanent representative to the WTO, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, just days after US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent described him as “unhinged.” Li, during a visit to Washington in August, had allegedly threatened that…
Microsoft Corp and OpenAI are among the US firms that have in the past few days pledged to invest ￡31 billion (US$41.8 billion) into artificial intelligence (AI) projects in the UK, but industry experts say the commitment could be undermined by the state’s aging power grid and some of the world’s highest electricity prices. British…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed plans by US finance firms, including PayPal Inc and Citigroup Inc, to invest ￡1.25 billion (US$1.7 billion) in the UK, which were announced days ahead of US President Donald Trump’s state visit. The investments by leading US companies, which also include Bank of America Corp and S&P Global Inc,…
PALESTINE UN backs two-state plan The UN General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and urge Israel to commit to a Palestinian state, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently opposes. The 193-member world body approved a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out…
National Technology Adviser Dave Smith is to lead 34 British semiconductor business representatives to this year’s Semicon Taiwan trade show, to be held from Wednesday to Friday next week, the UK representative office to Taiwan said yesterday. “I am delighted to be returning to Taiwan to lead the UK delegation, to continue our semiconductor discussions…
US President Donald Trump’s trade war is pushing the three closer together, but trust issues run deep, making it a fragile partnership By Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg Opinion The Russia-India-China alliance, floated in the 1990s as a counterweight to the US, is being revived today as a way for the three countries to ride out…
AUSTRALIA Manhunt in bush continues Police yesterday said they would not rest until they catch a 56-year-old gunman who fled into the bush two days earlier after allegedly killing two officers. Detectives said they were speaking to the man’s partner and searching rugged, forested terrain near the small town of Porepunkah, in Victoria’s northeast. The…