GUAYAQUIL: The death toll from bloody clashes between rival gangs in an Ecuador prison reached 116, with nearly 80 more wounded, President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday, as soldiers surrounded the facility — one of the country’s many overburdened and understaffed jails. Inmates went to war armed with guns and grenades […]
Month: September 2021
Kim Yo Jong, a key adviser to her brother North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a position on the State Affairs Commission. Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has been appointed to the country’s top government body, the official KCNA news agency reported Thursday. […]
BTS and Coldplay released the official video of their recent collaboration, My Universe. RM dedicated the song to their fans, who call themselves ARMY. BTS and Coldplay’s English-Korean collaboration ‘My Universe’ has been creating waves ever since its release on September 24. And now, fans of both the popular bands […]
Stonemasons discovered 239 pieces of gold, minted before the French Revolution, when they began renovating the property near Quimper in the western Brittany region. Paris: Hundreds of rare gold coins dug out of the walls of a remote French mansion fetched more than one million euros ($1.2 million) at auction […]
US deputy assistant secretary of defense for China, held meetings by video conference on Tuesday and Wednesday with Chinese Major General, Pentagon said. Washington: US and Chinese military officials held “frank, in-depth” talks this week on a range of defense issues, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as the countries grapple […]
The Waltons are the world’s wealthiest family, worth $238 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index The Walton family is shedding light on its stock picks, revealing it held almost $5 billion in equities at the end of June through a little-known firm that helps invest its Walmart Inc. fortune. […]
Amazon will be required to pay the employees lost wages according to the agreement. New York: Amazon has reached an agreement with two employees who accused the e-commerce giant of dismissing them in retaliation for their activism, both parties said Wednesday. Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, who led an advocacy […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said. And in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead a male “terrorist” who opened fire on them during clashes prompted by an overnight arrest operation, police said. According […]
SYDNEY: Melbourne’s Covid-19 cases surged to record levels on Thursday with officials blaming illegal home gatherings to watch a key sporting event for the spike as a hard lockdown to combat the spread of the Delta variant neared two months. Authorities in Victoria, home to Melbourne, estimated nearly a third […]
KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a small women’s rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed. A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after […]