This file photo dated Sep 17, 2021 shows a leopard laying inside a cage in one of the facilities of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) A male leopard cub found dead in the wild in mid-October in India was infected with the novel coronavirus, marking the […]
People wearing face masks walk at Shibuya district in Tokyo on Jan 19, 2022, as Japan's government approved new coronavirus restrictions on a large part of the country, including the capital to battle record infections fuelled by the Omicron variant. (BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP) TOKYO – Japan on Friday acted to contain a record surge […]
Dave Ryding pulled off a massive shock on Saturday when he won Britain’s first World Cup race with victory in the men’s slalom in Kitzbuehel. Ryding clocked a combined total of 1min 41.26sec, finishing 0.38sec ahead of Norway’s Lucas Braathen, with his teammate Henrik Kristoffersen in third (+0.65). “This place is a special place for […]
A man walks next to a sidewalk covered by rubble in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture on April 15, 2016, after a 6.5-magnitude quake struck the southwestern island of Kyushu. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP) MANILA / TOKYO – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted southwestern Japan early on Saturday morning, injuring 13 people, the authorities […]
People inspect the wreckage of buildings that were damaged by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Jan 18, 2022. (HANI MOHAMMED/AP) SAADA/NEW YORK, Yemen – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Friday that reportedly killed at least 60 people in a detention center in the Houthi-held […]
Students arrive to attend their classes at the Rajuk Uttara Model College in Dhaka on Sept 12, 2021, as Bangladesh schools reopened after 18 months in one of the world's longest shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (MUNIR UZAMAN / AFP) DHAKA / PHNOM PENH / SUVA – Bangladesh on Friday closed all schools and colleges […]
A Pakistani lab technician takes a sample with a swab to test for the coronavirus at the PIMS Hospital, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Jan 3, 2022. (RAHMAT GUL / AP) TOKYO / SINGAPORE / JERUSALEM / ANKARA / KUALA LUMPUR / SYDNEY / NEW DELHI / ISLAMABAD – Pakistan reported 7,678 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the […]
In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defense Force, volcanic ash covers roof tops and vegetation in an area of Tonga on Jan 17, 2022. (CPL VANESSA PARKER / NZDF VIA AP) WELLINGTON / SYDNEY – As aid trickles into the South Pacific nation of Tonga, devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami, an […]
NASA researchers have estimated that the force of the volcanic eruption that took place on Saturday near the island nation of Tonga was equivalent to 10 megatons of TNT, which means it was more than 500 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three of Tonga's smaller islands […]
For the first time, Hong Kong will be sending more than one skier to the Winter Olympics. Adrian Yung and Audrey King will be competing in two events – the Giant Slalom and Slalom – in the Games in Beijing next month. The pair, who are undergoing training in Bosnia, told reporters via video link […]
Owen Dixon Commonwealth Law Courts building, where the hearing of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is held at the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, is seen in Melbourne, Australia, Jan 14, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) MELBOURNE – An Australian court said on Thursday it dismissed tennis superstar Novak Djokovic's challenge to his […]
A handout photo taken and released on Jan 20, 2022 by the Royal Australian Air Force shows Australian High Commissioner to Tonga Rachael Moore (left) and Tongan Foreign Minister Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu watching the arrival of the first Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft from Australia delivering humanitarian assistance. (HANDOUT / AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 8, 2021, an Afghan street vendor carries a Taliban flag beside outer concrete wall of US embassy in Kabul. (AAMIR QURESHI / AFP) KABUL – Afghanistan's acting prime minister, Mullah Hasan Akhund, on Wednesday called for international governments to officially recognize the country's Taliban administration, saying at a […]
This handout photo taken on Jan 17, 2022 and received on Jan 18 from the New Zealand Defense Force shows crew on a P-3K2 Orion aircraft surveying an area in Tonga, after the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga – Hunga-Haa'pai volcano on Jan 15. (HANDOUT / NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE FORCE / AFP) Two New Zealand navy […]
People inspect the wreckage of buildings after they were damaged by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Jan 18, 2022. (HANI MOHAMMED / AP) ADEN, YEMEN – Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi group on the capital Sanaa killed at least 20 people overnight, including civilians, Houthi media and residents said, in […]
In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defense Force, volcanic ash covers roof tops and vegetation in an area of Tonga, on Jan 17, 2022. (CPL VANESSA PARKER / NZDF VIA AP) SYDNEY/WELLINGTON – Tonga's small outer islands suffered extensive damage from a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with an entire village destroyed and […]
Yemenis inspect the damage following overnight airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the Huthi rebel-held capital Sanaa, on Jan 18, 2022. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) ADEN, YEMEN – An air strike killed about 14 people in a building in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, residents said on Tuesday, during strikes across the city launched by […]
In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga, Jan 15, 2022. (PHOTO / JAPAN METEOROLOGY AGENCY VIA AP) Days after Pacific island nation of Tonga was devastated by a massive eruption of an underwater volcano emergency […]
This photo provided by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea government shows what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile in the DPRK on Jan 5, 2022. (KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY / KOREA NEWS SERVICE VIA AP) UNITED NATIONS / PYONGYANG – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for diplomatic talks between the Democratic […]
A truck travels along a highway in Band-e Sabzak area in Badghis on Oct 17, 2021. (HOSHANG HASHIMI / AFP) KABUL – An earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 20 people and destroying hundreds of homes, local authorities said. The 5.6 magnitude tremor shook the western province of Badghis, bordering Turkmenistan, in […]