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19-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: On Saturday, as “extremely severe” Cyclone Mocha gathered speed in the Indian Ocean and tracked a straight course for Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine coast, Hla Tun made a critical decision. While the vast majority of the residents of the seaside city of Sittwe, including his wife and daughter, headed …

19-05-2023 ANKARA: Turkish opposition leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has promised to send “10 million refugees” home if he wins a May 28 run-off as he shifts to a sharply more anti-migrant tone to try to win nationalist votes and defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kilicdaroglu, candidate of a …

19-05-2023 JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities have beefed up security in Jerusalem, particularly in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, ahead of the annual “flag day” march by Orthodox Jews and settlers amid an already tense situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. More than 2,000 police were deployed as flag-bearing marchers …

19-05-2023 LONDON: In a historic development, global temperatures are now more likely than not to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming within the next five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This does not imply that the world will surpass the long-term warming threshold of …

19-05-2023 NEW YORK: In a historic auction in New York, a remarkable Hebrew Bible over 1,000 years old was sold for a staggering $38.1 million, setting a new record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon, dating back to the late ninth to early 10th …

18-05-2023 TOKYO: The G7 countries all agree on the threat of China’s economic coercion but reaching a consensus on concrete action to counter Beijing promises to be a challenge for the club of wealthy democracies amid divisions over how to manage ties with the world’s second-biggest economy. The leaders of …

18-05-2023 BEIRUT/ DAMASCUS: For seven years, Moussa al-Omari has been postponing his military service in Syria but knowing he was running out of legitimate reasons, he left the country in August last year and entered Lebanon legally through the airport. Seeing March this year was the final month of his …

18-05-2023 WELLINGTON: New Zealand police say they believe a deadly hostel fire in the capital, Wellington, was likely a result of arson and they are treating it as a homicide investigation. Smoke and flames engulfed the four-storey Loafers Lodge early on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least six …

18-05-2023 LILONGWE: A one-year-old child died and 23 people were missing and feared dead after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in southern Malawi, according to authorities. Police in the southern African country’s southern district of Nsanje said on Tuesday that the vessel was carrying …

18-05-2023 ABUJA: A convoy of United States embassy staff has come under fire in southeast Nigeria, an attack that killed two employees and two police officers. Gunmen also kidnapped three individuals two other police officers and a driver during the attack on Tuesday near the town of Atani in Nigeria’s …