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Advertisement East Asia South Korea overpass collapse kills three people during safety inspection All the people killed and injured were senior city public works officials and a private sector expert conducting the inspection, a fire official said. South Korean firefighters and rescue team at the overpass, which collapsed while it was being dismantled in Seoul, […]

Advertisement Asia Thailand mandates 21-day Ebola quarantine for DRC, Uganda arrivals Those with Ebola symptoms must quarantine at a designated state hospital, while those without symptoms would be required to stay at an unspecified quarantine site, the Thai health ministry said. Response teams wear protective suits before burying a person suspected of having died from […]

Advertisement analysis East Asia Suzhou’s APEC meeting offers glimpse of how China could handle Taiwan as host. What are its considerations? China kept the Taiwan issue largely out of sight during last week’s APEC meeting in Suzhou, but analysts say the leaders’ summit in Shenzhen this November could prove harder to manage. Yang Jen-ni, Taiwan’s […]

Advertisement Asia 10 hours and 1 surgeon: The quiet hero of Indonesia’s train crash tragedy He was supposed to head home after a night out with his family but Muhammad Iqbal El Mubarak ended up coordinating efforts to save the lives of those trapped in a devastating train accident.   Muhammad Iqbal El Mubarak, a […]

Advertisement East Asia Samsung’s unionised workers in South Korea approve pay deal Choi Seung-ho, head of Samsung Electronics union, Yeo Myung-koo, head of the People Team under Samsung’s Device Solutions division and the company’s chief management negotiator, and Labour Minister Kim Young-hoon pose for photographs after reaching tentative pay deal in Suwon, South Korea, May […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink Plumes of smoke billow from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, May 25, 2026. [Stringer/Reuters] Twenty-six years ago this week, Israel was forced to end an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Much has changed since, yet Lebanon and Israel still cling […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink Peter Murrell, right, arrives at the High Court on May 25, 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland [Jeff J Mitchell/Getty] The former chief executive of the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP), and ex-husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than 400,000 […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Memorial Day event held on May 25 at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia [Nathan Howard/Reuters] Since reports of a possible deal with Iran started to emerge, pro-Israel advocates in the United States have been warning […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink Plumes of smoke billow from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon [Reuters] ⁠Israeli ⁠Prime Minister ⁠Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to ⁠intensify strikes ⁠against Hezbollah ⁠in Lebanon to “crush” the armed group. The Israeli leader announced the order in […]

Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the site of the planned White House ballroom on May 19 [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] The administration of US President Donald Trump has renewed its push to lift a court ruling barring progress on a new White House ballroom, […]