International

The head of Libya’s armed forces and four other high ranking military officials died late Tuesday when their business jet crashed shortly after taking off from Ankara, officials in Turkey’s capital and Tripoli said. The wreckage of their Falcon 50 aircraft was located by Turkish security personnel in the Haymana district near Ankara, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. Three ...

A coach bus slammed into a barrier on an Indonesian highway early Monday, flipping over in an accident that killed at least 16 people, a rescue worker said. The bus, which was headed from the capital Jakarta to Yogyakarta, was travelling at a “fairly high” speed when it reached a turn at a highway interchange, local search and rescue agency ...

North Korea said on Sunday that Japan’s nuclear ambitions “must be prevented at any cost”, after a Tokyo official reportedly suggested the country should possess atomic weapons. Pyongyang’s reaction came after the unnamed official in the prime minister’s office was quoted by Kyodo News on Thursday as saying: “I think we should possess nuclear weapons.” The official was reported to ...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping defense policy bill into law Thursday that signaled strong bipartisan support for Europe and defied the US leader’s increasingly hostile posture toward NATO and America’s closest allies. The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one the few remaining rituals of cross-party cooperation in Congress even as divisions sharpen elsewhere in Washington, sets out the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday said an EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defense was essential to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. “It is about aid for Ukraine, but it is also about sending a clear signal to Russia that we will use the assets that are available here to help end ...

By Dr Abdul Hai and Fatama Rahman Ruma:   “Time has flown by in the blink of an eye — I can hardly believe it’s been 25 years in Germany. There was no other option but to learn the German language, no matter how challenging it was. It’s like learning a language you’ve never even heard before — It is ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that December 16 as India’s ‘Vijay Diwas’ (victory day), which sparked criticism, with observers and historians pointing out that the date marks Bangladesh’s Victory Day, commemorating the country’s independence in 1971. He claimed it through a Facebook post from his verified page on Tuesday. December 16 is observed in Bangladesh as the day Pakistani ...

Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night. In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was traveling from the Caribbean town of Tolu to Medellin ...

At least 10 people were dead after a shooting Sunday at Sydney’s Bondi beach, police told AFP, without saying if that toll includes a shooter. National broadcaster ABC reported that one of the shooters was among the dead and that 12 additional people were wounded. Police shot dead one attacker at the scene and arrested a second, who remains in ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned that the Black Sea should not turn into an “area of confrontation” between Russia and Ukraine, after several strikes in recent weeks, reports AFP. “The Black Sea should not be seen as an area of confrontation. This would not benefit Russia or Ukraine. Everyone needs safe navigation in the Black Sea,” he ...