QUITO – Ecuador has released a man who survived a United States (US) strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submarine, the attorney general’s office said Monday after finding no evidence that he had committed a crime. The US has deployed warships to the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela since August, attacking mostly boats that US...
JERUSALEM – The top US envoys to the Middle East conflict arrived in Israel on Monday to inspect progress on the Gaza plan after weekend violence threatened to wreck the hard-won ceasefire.Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing in to Gaza for aid shipments, a security official and a humanitarian source said, after it was...
Luo Zheng On October 12, Agence France-Presse (AFP) issued a report named ‘China, Philippines trade blame over boat collision’ and was published in the Namibia’s New Era newspaper the next day. This report is totally contrary to the basic facts, which I wish to state as follows: On 12 October, Philippine official vessels, with the...
NAIROBI – Two people died, and dozens were injured in a stampede at the state funeral of Kenya’s revered opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday as crowds rushed to see his coffin, Doctors Without Borders said. It came a day after at least three people were killed when security forces opened fire to disperse a...
ABUJA – Nigerian authorities on Saturday denied that more than a dozen officers had been arrested over a coup plot, pushing back on local media reports. The west African country has seen several military takeovers in its history and spent much of the 20th century under junta rule since its independence from Britain. A fresh...
GENEVA – The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday called for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow desperately needed aid into the war-torn Palestinian territory. A fragile truce in Gaza, introduced under United States president Donald Trump’s plan, needs to see crossings opened to flood the...
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Canada’s foreign minister in New Delhi on Monday, the most senior visit since both sides agreed to reinstate ambassadors after a bitter fallout. “India-Canada bilateral relations have been steadily progressing in the last few months,” Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told his Canadian counterpart Anita...
MANILA – A moderately strong earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Cebu yesterday, injuring at least 14 people and damaging infrastructure already weakened by a deadly tremor two weeks earlier, officials said. The magnitude 5.7 aftershock, recorded by the United States Geological Survey, struck just after 1:00 am on Monday (1700 GMT Sunday). Its...
JERUSALEM – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday hailed the release of the 20 surviving Israeli hostages by Hamas as “the start of healing” and a step towards Middle East peace. “Two years of fear, pain, and hope are behind them. Today, families can finally embrace their loved ones again,” he posted on X after the...
MANILA – The Philippines said a Chinese ship deliberately rammed one of its government vessels in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, although Beijing blamed Manila for the incident. Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the contested waterway, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an international ruling that its...