TOKYO: Japan scored after just 90 seconds and held out North Korea to win 1-0 on Thursday and maintain their perfect start in the second round of Asian qualifying for the 2026 World Cup. Ao Tanaka’s strike at the National Stadium gave the host three wins from three Group B games. The midfielder fired home … Read more
Putin is poised to extend his rule in highly orchestrated vote even as Russians quietly protest MOSCOW: Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin in a vote that offered them no real alternatives after he … Read more
KYIV: Ukrainian authorities have begun mass evacuations of communities in the country’s northern Sumy region close to the Russian border after extended periods of intense shelling of the area, local officials said on Friday. The military administration of Sumy region, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said more than 180 residents of areas near the … Read more
BEIRUT: Turkiye bears responsibility for human rights abuses and violations of land and property rights in swathes of northern Syria it controls alongside its proxies, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday. Since 2016, Turkiye has carried out successive ground operations to expel the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from Syria’s north, with its proxies … Read more
Startup of the Week – supply chain platform Omniful aims to boost Saudi Arabia’s e-commerce space CAIRO: E-commerce and supply chain operations platform Omniful is aiming to significantly boost its presence in the Saudi market after a successful $5.85 million seed funding round. In an interview with Arab News, CEO and co-founder of Omniful, Mostafa … Read more
WASHINGTON: A Houston-based company has landed America’s first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, part of a new fleet of NASA-funded, uncrewed commercial robots intended to pave the way for astronaut missions later this decade. But while flight controllers confirmed they had received a faint signal, it was not immediately clear whether Odysseus, … Read more
Biden is left with few choices as immigration takes center stage in American politics SCOTTSDALE, Arizona: Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles on Tuesday into the sea off its west coast, South Korea’s military said, the third time Pyongyang has tested cruise missiles in less than a week. The missiles were launched at around 7 a.m. (2200 GMT on Monday), Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. South … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea tested its new strategic cruise missiles for the second time in a week on Sunday, calling it a newly developed submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM), accelerating its navy’s nuclear armament, state media reported on Monday. Leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the missile, called “Pulhwasal-3-31,” which is identical to the strategic … Read more
SANAA, Yemen: US forces struck an anti-ship missile in Houthi-held Yemen that they said was ready to fire Saturday, hours after the Iran-backed rebels caused a fire on a British tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a similar munition.US and British forces have launched joint strikes aimed at reducing the Houthis’ ability to target … Read more