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‘Bull’s-eye’ landing caps Boeing’s faulty astronaut capsule test mission
Boeing Co’s (BA.N) Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert yesterday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space
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Netanyahu uses the anti-Semitism card against ICC war crime probe
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Criminal Court of anti-Semitism yesterday over its chief prosecutor’s plan to pursue a war crimes probe in the Palestinian Territories. The right-wing leader, who is fighting for his political life in
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Hundreds arrested in India during days of protests over citizenship law
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in the past 10 days, officials said, as police try to quell sometimes violent demonstrations against a citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution. Additionally, officials
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Bushfires hit emergency level on Sydney’s outskirts; One dead in South Australia
SYDNEY: Catastrophic conditions fuelled massive bushfires across Australia’s New South Wales state today, with three blazes around Sydney burning at emergency level, while in South Australia one person was found dead in a fire zone. Some major roads outside Sydney
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UK all set for Jan 31 Brexit as Johnson wins vote on deal
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in Parliament yesterday, the first step towards fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union by Jan 31 after his landslide victory. Lawmakers voted by 358
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Facebook takes down RM37.26mil pro-Trump disinformation campaign
Facebook Inc has taken down a well-financed campaign that used dozens of artificially generated faces to spread pro-Trump and anti-Chinese government messages, the company and outside researchers said yesterday. Researchers from New York-based Graphika and the Digitial Forensics Research Lab,
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ICC to probe alleged war crimes in Palestinian areas
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said yesterday she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories as soon as the court’s jurisdiction had been established. The announcement opens the possibility of charges being filed
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Aussie PM apologises for vacation as firefighters killed in huge blazes
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a rare public apology today and cut short a Hawaiian vacation in response to mounting public anger after two volunteer firefighters were killed battling bushfires sweeping the country’s east coast. Some areas of
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Exclusive: US probe of Saudi oil attack shows it came from north
WASHINGTON: The United States said new evidence and analysis of weapons debris recovered from an attack on Saudi oil facilities on Sept 14 indicates the strike likely came from the north, reinforcing its earlier assessment that Iran was behind the
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Democrats: Trump is not king, aides should testify in Senate impeachment trial
LOS ANGELES: The Democratic US presidential candidates promised during a debate yesterday to make the case to a divided American public that the impeachment of Donald Trump was necessary, and some said they wanted to hear testimony from top White
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