Local media footage showed residents wading through murky, chest-deep water and cars submerged in flooded streets. “Flooding across eight provinces in southern Thailand has affected 553,921 households and claimed nine lives, prompting agencies to mobilize urgent assistance,” the country’s disaster agency said on its official Facebook page. More than 13,000 people had been forced to […]
Trudeau, whose public itinerary did not list a scheduled visit to Florida, was seen leaving a hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida, to go to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a Reuters witness. Trudeau’s office and Trump’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Trump threatened on Monday to impose a 25% tariff […]
Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight long-standing refugee camps. Later on Friday, an Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, medics said. Others were killed in the northern and southern areas […]
The opposition fighters, led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, carried out a surprise sweep through government-held towns this week and reached Aleppo nearly a decade after having been forced out by Assad and his allies. Russia, one of Assad’s key allies, has promised Damascus extra military aid to thwart the rebels, two […]
An unprecedented financial crash in 2022 brought months of consumer goods shortages, with inflation peaking at nearly 70 percent that year. Since then, a $2.9 billion bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), tax hikes, and austerity measures have slowly made headway in repairing the island’s economy. “Headline inflation will remain negative in the […]
Cyclonic storm Fengal is forecast to make landfall in Tamil Nadu state with sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres an hour (43-50 mph) in the afternoon, India’s weather bureau said. The forecast urged fishing crews to stay off the water and predicted surging waves of one metre (three feet) that posed a flood risk to low-lying […]
In West Virginia state of the US, a few hours south of Pittsburgh, there exists a town where the use of cell phones is prohibited. In this unique location, Wi-Fi access is restricted, and locating a radio station can prove to be quite challenging. Green Bank is commonly known as the quietest town in America. […]
Australia approved the social media ban for children late on Thursday. The law forces tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta to TikTok to stop minors logging in or face fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million). TikTok, the hugely popular platform where teen users upload and share videos, said in a statement […]
Each stay is for up to seven days, the official news agency said, with the multiple-entry visas valid for one year at a time. The announcement reinstates a multiple-entry policy from 2009 that was tightened in 2015 when China began allowing Shenzhen residents to go to Hong Kong only once a week. The stricter policy […]
The law forces tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta (META.O), to open a new tab on TikTok to stop minors from logging in or face fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million). A trial of methods to enforce it will start in January with the ban to take effect in a year. […]
