SEOUL : South Korean police Monday sought an arrest warrant for a K-pop star accused of filming and distributing illicit sex videos in a burgeoning scandal that has rocked the country’s music industry. Singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young last week admitted to filming himself having sex and...
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MEXICO CITY : A Mexican journalist shot dead at his home has become the third newsman killed so far this year in Mexico, authorities said Saturday. The killing of Santiago Barroso adds to a toll of more than 100 media workers murdered in the country over the last seven years, coinciding with a...
New Delhi [India] : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late on Saturday held a meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, to shortlist candidates for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. The meeting of the BJP Central Election Committee (CEC) at the...
JAKARTA : More than 42 people were killed and dozens of others went missing as flash floods hit Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province Saturday night, a local disaster agency official said on Sunday. Torrential rains had triggered the natural disaster in several villages in Jayapura...
HARARE : At least 31 people have been killed and dozens are missing as tropical cyclone Idai hit eastern parts of Zimbabwe after lashing neighbouring Mozambique, the government said on Saturday. Most of the deaths were in Chimanimani town, Zimbabwe’s information ministry announced on...
WASHINGTON : Chinese bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weapons. To a remarkable degree, the 2020 Pentagon budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words:...
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump’s trade battles cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in lost gross domestic product in 2018, a study by a team of economists at leading American universities published this week showed. Authors of the paper said they analyzed the short-run impact of Trump’s...
BEIJING : China’s premier denied Beijing tells its tech companies to spy abroad and promised Friday to treat foreign and domestic competitors equally, seeking to defuse tensions with Washington and Europe over technology, market access and other irritants. Premier Li Keqiang’s...
New Zealand Christchurch mosque shooting: “We are potentially still dealing with an evolving situation. And again, as I say, across multiple sites. Please be assured, though, the police are actively managing the situation. Agencies are already convening in Wellington.,” Prime Minister...
United States : The United States’ donation of three specially outfitted airplanes to the Honduran Air Force has helped to save lives and disrupt illegal drug trafficking. The last of the three U.S.-designed and -manufactured Cessna aircraft — built for challenging missions that might include...
