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SEOUL, South Korea — Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S. dollar bills and Bibles toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans tried to throw the bottles into the sea from front-line Gwanghwa Island so they could float toward North Korean…
AFP/Getty At his 1,200-person cleaning business in Maryland, chief executive Victor Moran carefully screens new recruits to make sure they are authorised to work in the US. Even so, President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants is starting to chip away at his workforce. About 15 people have left his company, Total Quality, since Trump won…
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sánchez are getting married in Italy this weekend, and a star-studded list of celebrities was seen arriving in Venice for the first planned events on Thursday. While the ceremony itself is set for Saturday at an undisclosed location, movie stars, TV personalities and business titans were…
Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for the murders of eight women and one man whose body parts he concealed in his small apartment. Japan has executed a man who was found guilty of killing and dismembering nine people he made contact with on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly…
People check out an electric SUV Xiaomi YU7 at a Xiaomi Store in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province Thursday, June 26, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Hong Kong-listed shares of China’s Xiaomi surged over 5% to hit a record high on Friday, a day after its electric car drew a strong…
A suspect in the bombing at a California fertility clinic who was found dead in a federal detention center this week died by suicide, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office records show. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and pronounced dead at a…
Jacqueline Howard & Adam Durbin BBC News Watch: Iran dealt “heavy blow” to US, says Khamenei Iran’s supreme leader has insisted the US “gained no achievements” from strikes on its nuclear facilities, in his first public address since a ceasefire with Israel was agreed on Tuesday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strikes did not “accomplish…
Johannesburg — Every four years, representatives to the global alliance of governments, pharmaceutical makers, United Nations agencies and philanthropic organizations known as Gavi, which helps get vaccines to people who need them, meet to lock in new funding pledges. Just as this year’s meeting in Brussels was drawing to a close on Wednesday, U.S. Health Secretary…
The most peaceful area in the entire hospital was a small patio at its centre, where patients rested on benches beneath a wooden pagoda. Nearby, a small, colourful obstacle course helped survivors regain their mobility after surgery and other intensive treatments. That’s where we met four-year-old Alexandro and his mother, Youseline Philisma. Alexandro was just…
Hello, this is Ganesh Rao, writing from London. This week, I look into how the Israel-Iran conflict was a reminder of India’s vulnerabilities — and the opportunities emerging from the crisis. The Indian Army’s Brahmos missile system takes part Rehearsal in full swing ahead of the Republic Day Parade 2025, at Kartavya Path on January…
