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Kenton Cool, pictured here after his 17th climb up Everest in 2023, has achieved the feat twice more as of 18 May
British mountaineer sets record 19th Everest summit
LONDON — British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most climbs up the world's tallest mountain for a non-sherpa.The 51-year-old, who was accompanied by Nepali sherpa Dorji Gyaljen, reached the 8,849m (29,000ft) high summit at 11:00 local time (04:15 GMT) on Sunday.Cool first climbed Everest in 2004 and has summited it almost yearly since.Gyaljen logged his 23rd climb up Everest. Another Nepali sherpa, Kami Rita, holds the record for making the most number of Everest summits at 30, and is also currently on the mountain attempting to set a new record.Cool's record-setting feat comes after at least two climbers - Subrata Ghosh from India and Philipp "PJ" Santiago II from the Philippines - died on Mount...
May 19, 2025

British mountaineer sets record 19th Everest summit

Less than half of the country's population are immunised against polio, a highly infectious disease
WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign.Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country's northeast.Less than half of the country's population is immunized against the potentially deadly disease, which is close to being wiped out but has recently resurfaced in some parts of the world."We have to do something about it and we have to do it immediately," said Sevil Huseynova, WHO's representative in Papua New Guinea, warning that the disease could spread beyond the country."We have to make maximum effort to get 100% [vaccination] coverage," Dr Huseynova said at...
May 16, 2025

WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea

Over 330,000 Indians visited Turkey in 2024, marking a post-pandemic surge in tourism interest
Indians urge Turkey boycott amid regional tensions
NEW DELHI — What began as public calls to boycott travel to Turkey has now escalated into a broader rupture, with India severing links with Turkish businesses and universities.The diplomatic chill stems from Turkey's recent vocal support for Pakistan during the recent India-Pakistan hostilities.On Thursday India barred Turkish firm Celebi from operating at its airports, citing national security concerns — an allegation the company denies.Several Indian universities — including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Maulana Azad National Urdu University — have also suspended academic ties with Turkish institutions.Celebi, which handled ground services at major airports like Delhi and Mumbai, has been formally dropped, in line with the federal aviation ministry...
May 16, 2025

Indians urge Turkey boycott amid regional tensions

Search teams recovered 89 bodies in a six-week operation in the rubble of the partially constructed 30-story State Audit Office tower in Bangkok
Construction tycoon among 17 wanted in Thailand over deadly tower collapse
BANGKOK — A Thai court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people including a high-profile construction tycoon over their alleged involvement in the building of a skyscraper that collapsed and killed scores of workers during a powerful March earthquake, Reuters reported on Thursday citing police.Search teams recovered 89 bodies in a six-week operation in the rubble of the partially constructed 30-story State Audit Office tower in the capital Bangkok, which was the only skyscraper to collapse during tremors caused by a massive 7.7 magnitude quake in neighboring Myanmar.The charges included building code violations that caused deaths, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, said deputy Bangkok police chief, Police Major General Somkuan Puengsap.Thai authorities are investigating...
May 16, 2025

Construction tycoon among 17 wanted in Thailand over deadly tower collapse

There are about 30,000 North Korean defectors residing in South Korea
North Korea defectors in SK public sector at record high
SINGAPORE — There are now more North Korean defectors working in the South's public sector than ever before, Seoul has said.By the end of 2024, 211 North Korean defectors held jobs in the public sector, 17 more than the previous year, the Ministry of Unification said in a statement on Wednesday.That number is the highest since 2010, when North Korean defectors "began to enter the public service in earnest", the ministry said.Seoul has been widening its support for North Korean defectors who struggle with unemployment and social isolation as they adjust to their new lives in the South."There is a growing need to expand opportunities for North Korean defectors to enter public service so that they can directly participate in and contribute to the government's...
May 16, 2025

North Korea defectors in SK public sector at record high

Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case has been called the trial of the century
Top Australian soldier loses appeal over war crimes defamation case
SYDNEY — Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered four unarmed Afghans were true, but Roberts-Smith had argued the judge made legal errors.The civil trial was the first time in history any court has assessed claims of war crimes by Australian forces.A panel of three Federal Court judges on Friday unanimously upheld the original judgement, though Roberts-Smith has said he will appeal the decision to the High Court of Australia "immediately"."I continue to maintain my innocence and deny these egregious spiteful allegations," he said in a statement.Roberts-Smith,...
May 16, 2025

Top Australian soldier loses appeal over war crimes defamation case

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31 suspected rebels killed in India’s ‘biggest ever operation’ against decades-old Maoist insurgency
NEW DELHI — Indian police have killed 31 suspected Maoist rebels in what is being described as the “biggest ever operation” against the long-running insurgency.Security forces spent 21 days attempting to capture the rebels along the border of the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana in central India, Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday.Describing the operation as a “historic breakthrough,” Shah said security forces carried out the “biggest ever operation” against the rebels, killing 31 of them in Karreguttalu Hill, considered a Maoist stronghold.Indian authorities have been battling Maoist rebel groups, also known as Naxals, across several central and northern states since 1967. Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, insurgents have over the decades launched...
May 15, 2025

31 suspected rebels killed in India’s ‘biggest ever operation’ against decades-old Maoist insurgency

Derek Wang spent almost half a million dollars setting up his company
Relief on China's factory floors as US tariffs put on hold
BEIJING — There's a vast empty space in the middle of the factory floor in Foshan in southern China where workers should be welding high-end air fryers for the US market.Derek Wang says his American customers were wowed by his air fryer models — which are controlled via smartphones and can also bake, roast and grill.But then on 2 April, Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs hit all Chinese goods entering the US, eventually reaching 145% — and his clients asked him to pause production."I tried to keep smiling through my anxiety for the sake of my 40 workers," he told the BBC.On Wednesday, as a deal to ease the trade war came into effect, Wang said his US buyers were back on the phone.Both countries still face some tariffs. There is at least a 30% tax on...
May 15, 2025

Relief on China's factory floors as US tariffs put on hold

A Kashmir resident looks at his damaged home in Salamabad, near the Line of Control, in India-administered Kashmir on May 8, 2025
Divided by a border, united by fear: Kashmiris pick up the pieces after India-Pakistan step back from the brink
MUZAFFARABAD — Mohammad Iqbal was working the night shift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying artillery shells were exploding around their home.“I told them all to hunker down in one room together on the ground floor and hopefully things would become okay by morning,” he told CNN.But dawn brought no relief from the shelling that would continue for four days as India and Pakistan fought their most intense conflict in decades, raising fears of an all-out war.Iqbal, 47, lives near the town Poonch in India-administered Kashmir, a stone’s throw from the de-facto border with Pakistan, an area of pine-clad foothills and flowery meadows, backdropped by towering, icy peaks.But the idyll is illusory – Kashmir is one of the world’s most militarized regions...
May 14, 2025

Divided by a border, united by fear: Kashmiris pick up the pieces after India-Pakistan step back from the brink

The Jeju Air plane belly-landed at Muan International Airport without its landing gear deployed on 29 December
Plane crash victims' families file complaint against Jeju Air CEO
SEOUL — Some families of those killed in a Jeju Air plane crash last December have filed a criminal complaint against 15 people, including South Korea's transport minister and the airline's CEO, for professional negligence.The 72 bereaved relatives are calling for a more thorough investigation into the crash, which killed 179 of the 181 people on board - making it the deadliest plane crash on South Korean soil.The crash was "not a simple accident", they allege, but a "major civic disaster caused by negligent management of preventable risks".Nearly five months on, authorities are still studying what may have caused the plane to crash-land at Muan International Airport and then burst into flames.The police had already opened a criminal investigation before this...
May 14, 2025

Plane crash victims' families file complaint against Jeju Air CEO

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