SYDNEY (AP) – A judge denied bail yesterday to a 15-year-old boy alleged to be in a network planning terrorist acts and who claimed to be a friend of another teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop last month. The attack on the bishop triggered an investigation that led to the arrests of six teens, […]
SINGAPORE (XINHUA) – The growth in the Asia-Pacific region will moderate to 4.5 per cent this year from the outperformed five per cent in 2023, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its “Regional Economic Outlook Asia and Pacific” launched in Singapore yesterday. Asia-Pacific is expected to remain the most dynamic region across the world, […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Tyrese Maxey made his Madison Square Garden memory, engineering a season-saving comeback with a rapid-fire flurry that evoked memories of Reggie Miller. Not that he was thinking about his own legacy as those three-pointers fell through the net. “Going through my mind right there was just, find a way to survive,” […]
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Before it was forced to close over its “intolerable” treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their enclosures. Now, four years later, it is a rehabilitation centre for Pakistani wildlife, providing a refuge for motherless leopard cubs, […]
HELONG (AFP) – After fleeing famine in North Korea, Kim Cheol-ok laid low in China for decades – until a doomed run for freedom got her sent back to her repressive homeland, her family said. She is among hundreds of North Koreans repatriated in recent months, according to rights groups, which said they face imprisonment, […]