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Hezbollah supporters beat their chests as they march in Beirut, 6 July 2025
Hezbollah refuses to hand over its weapons to Lebanese government
BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem threatened open confrontation on Friday if Lebanon's government proceeds with plans to disarm the militant group, calling the cabinet decision an implementation of "US-Israeli orders."The Lebanese Council of Ministers approved a decision last week requiring the army to urgently develop a disarmament plan and implement it before year-end, marking the most severe challenge to Hezbollah since the civil war ended in 1990."The decision is dangerous and exposes the country to a major crisis," Qassem said during a televised speech in Baalbek. "It strips the resistance and Lebanon of defensive weapons during aggression."Qassem vowed Hezbollah would not surrender its weapons and warned of armed conflict, if not outright...
August 15, 2025

Hezbollah refuses to hand over its weapons to Lebanese government

The 79-year-old was handed a fine instead of a jail sentence because of his poor health
F1 tycoon fined $23,000 in Singapore gift scandal
SINGAPORE — A Singapore-based billionaire has been fined $23,400 (S$30,000; £17,251) after he had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a gift scandal that shocked the country last year.Hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng had admitted to abetting the obstruction of justice by helping ex-transport minister Subramaniam Iswaran cover up evidence while the latter was being investigated for corruption.Ong gave expensive gifts, including an all-expenses paid trip with a private jet ride, to Iswaran while they were engaged in official business.The 79-year-old had faced a maximum penalty of seven years in jail but a judge said "judicial mercy" would be granted in light of his poor health.Ong suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer.At his sentencing on Friday, Judge...
August 15, 2025

F1 tycoon fined $23,000 in Singapore gift scandal

Communal fighting and war have displaced some hundreds of thousands of Rohingya in Rakhine State
Fears of starvation in Myanmar as UN warns of 'disaster'
BANGKOK -- Aid agencies are warning of starvation in war-torn Myanmar's Rakhine State, with the World Food Programme (WFP) making an urgent appeal for more donations to avoid a "full-blown disaster".The agency has been trying to feed the rapidly rising number of displaced people in the state, including the 140,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been living in camps since they fled their homes during communal fighting in 2012.The civil war which was ignited by the 2021 military coup has destroyed the economy across much of Myanmar and created huge humanitarian needs.But the situation in Rakhine, which has been cut off from the rest of the country because of a military blockade, is significantly worse than other areas.On 20 April, a 50-year-old father living in the Ohn Taw Kyi camp...
August 15, 2025

Fears of starvation in Myanmar as UN warns of 'disaster'

Rubbish dump trucks, green and yellow in colour, queue up laden with rubbish in a tip. To the left and right are high piles of degrading plastic and rubbish. In the background the skyline of Nairobi can be seen
Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided
GENEVA — Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed.The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to negotiate into the night in the hopes of breaking a deadlock.There remained a split between a group of about 100 nations calling for curbs on production of plastic, and oil states pushing for a focus on recycling.Speaking in the early hours, Cuban delegates said that countries had "missed a historic opportunity but we have to keep going".The talks were convened in 2022 in response to the mounting scientific evidence of the risks of plastic pollution to human health and the environment.Despite the benefits of plastic to almost every sector, scientists are...
August 15, 2025

Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided

Prabowo's flagship free meals programme has become the target of food safety concerns and heated anti-government protests
More than 300 ill in Indonesia after eating free school lunches
JAKARTA -- Some 365 people have fallen ill in an Indonesian town after eating school lunches, the largest spate of food poisonings to hit President Prabowo Subianto's free meals program so far.The meals have temporarily been suspended in Sragen, in central Java, as food samples are being tested for contamination, local authorities said.The program - which costs an estimated $28bn (£21bn) - delivers on a campaign promise by the president to combat stunting in the country.But it has been plagued by a string of food poisonings, as well as criticisms that its high price tag has put considerable strain on the government's finances - with several ministries having their budgets cut as a result.Wizdan Ridho Abimanyu, a ninth-grader in Sragen, told Reuters he was awakened in the middle of...
August 15, 2025

More than 300 ill in Indonesia after eating free school lunches

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have not met in person for six years (file picture)
Trump set to meet Putin in push for Ukraine peace
WASHINGTON – US and Russian officials will converge on the state of Alaska ahead of a highly anticipated Friday meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.The pair will meet for the first time in six years, as Trump tries to enact a key campaign pledge to end Russia's war in Ukraine.The US president, who has portrayed himself as a global peacemaker, hopes to leverage his personal relationship with Putin to achieve a ceasefire breakthrough where others have failed.On Thursday he assessed there was a "25% chance" the meeting would not be successful.Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky has been excluded from the talks, and warned that any resolutions made in his absence will be meaningless.In Anchorage there are few signs of the impending high-stakes...
August 15, 2025

Trump set to meet Putin in push for Ukraine peace

California Governor Gavin Newsom shouts behind a podium that bears a sign that says Election Rigging Response Act. A crowd of supporters holds signs behind him
California governor unveils voting lines plan to counter Texas Republicans
LOS ANGELES – California's Democratic governor has unveiled a high-stakes plan to redraw voting lines in America's most populous state, in order to counter similar efforts by Republicans in Texas.Gavin Newsom called for a special election to be held in November, in which voters would be asked to approve lawmakers redrawing congressional districts before national midterms in 2026.He billed the move as an emergency measure in response to a Donald Trump-backed plan in Texas, which could see the Republicans pick up five more seats in the finely-balanced House.It is the latest development in a gerrymandering fight that runs the risk of setting off a political arms race for control of the US Congress.The governor – whose term in office ends next year and is rumoured to have...
August 15, 2025

California governor unveils voting lines plan to counter Texas Republicans

Rescuers at the site of the flash flood in Indian-administered Kashmir
Dozens dead in flash floods on popular Himalayas pilgrimage route
DELHI – Flash floods have killed 46 people in a village hosting Hindu pilgrims in Indian-administered Kashmir.The flooding took place in the remote village of Chositi in Kishtwar district, which is on a busy pilgrimage route to a famous shrine in the Himalayas.Videos shared online showed dramatic flood waters, vehicles being washed away and rescuers searching for survivors in damaged homes, as people cried in the streets – some caked in mud.Dozens of pilgrims have been evacuated to safety, but at least 50 people are feared missing, and a rescue operation is still under way.The floods were triggered by a cloudburst, officials said, with Federal Minister Jitendra Singh, who is also an MP from Jammu and Kashmir, saying it was on a "massive scale" and rescue teams were finding it...
August 15, 2025

Dozens dead in flash floods on popular Himalayas pilgrimage route

Nanjing massacre was the darkest chapter of the years-long Sino-Japanese war
A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations
TOKYO – Japanese vlogger Hayato Kato's 1.9 million followers are used to his funny clips about exploring China, where he has been living for several years.But on 26 July he surprised them with a sombre one."I just watched a movie about the Nanjing Massacre," he said, referring to the Japanese army's six-week rampage through Nanjing in late 1937, which, by some estimates, killed more than 300,000 civilians and Chinese soldiers. Around 20,000 women were reportedly raped.Dead To Rights, or Nanjing Photo Studio, is a star-studded tale about a group of civilians who hide from Japanese troops in a photo studio. Already a box office hit, it is the first of a wave of Chinese movies about the horrors of Japanese occupation that are being released to mark the 80th anniversary of...
August 15, 2025

A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations

Ukrainians are still training to fight Russia - few expect the war will end soon
Left out of Alaska talks, exhausted Ukrainians fear an unjust peace
KYIV – They call it "dronocide": new training to deal with what is now the greatest threat to a Ukrainian soldier's life on the battlefield – drones.These machines saturate the front line and cause the largest number of casualties, according to Ukraine. If Donald Trump can't make Vladimir Putin agree to a ceasefire at their meeting in Alaska on Friday, then this training in eastern Ukraine might be essential to saving lives on the front.The continuing preparation for battle suggests few in Ukraine are expecting this war to stop any time soon. The training is not especially sophisticated: their defence is a shotgun. The soldiers go through drills to hit fast-moving targets – shooting first from the ground, and then while on the move. Ihor, their experienced...
August 15, 2025

Left out of Alaska talks, exhausted Ukrainians fear an unjust peace

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