DUBAI, April 28 - Two months into a war with the U.S. and Israel, Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of power — an abrupt break with the past that may be hardening Tehran’s stance as it weighs renewed talks with Washington.
The week-long trek was 210km long.
ROME, April 28 - Italy's parliament on Tuesday backed a government plan to donate an ageing aircraft carrier to Indonesia, a move the administration said would strengthen relations with an ally while avoiding the costly dismantling of an obsolete asset.
By prefecture, Tokyo was at the top with 153 cases.
WASHINGTON, April 28 - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran has said it was in a state of collapse and wants the United States to open the Strait of Hormuz while it sorts out its leadership.
April 28 - A superyacht owned by Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov was able to transit the blockaded Strait of Hormuz after undergoing maintenance in Dubai because neither Iran nor the United States objected, a source close to Mordashov said on Tuesday.
In 2024 alone, over 50,000 reports of unruly passenger behaviour were made by 60 airline operators.
April 28 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been invited to attend next month's summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Armenia, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Tuesday, adding that this marked the first time that a non-European country was
LONDON, April 28 - Britain on Tuesday sought to uphold a ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, which it has designated a terrorist organisation, after a court ruling that the move unlawfully interfered with freedom of expression.
The court ordered all sentences to run concurrently from the date of their arrest, May 17, 2024.
MOSCOW, April 28 - Russia's Federal Security Service said on Tuesday that Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin had been released by Poland as part of a prisoner swap, state news agency TASS reported.
The PM may now be forced to bring forward the general election, when it is due only by early 2028.
Kok An runs a business called Crown Resorts, which owns casinos and other buildings in Cambodia.
Experts urge separate tracks for long-distance and commuter trains, among other measures, in the wake of Monday’s (Apr 27) train collision that killed 15 people and injured dozens.
WARSAW, April 28 - Belarus has released Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, as the two countries conducted a prisoner exchange at their border.
A minister said the funds would boost domestic tourism and curb capital outflows from overseas tourism.
Singapore built its edge on something rare: neutrality that actually worked. Capital moved in, companies set up and deals got done without politics getting in the way. From where I sit, that predictability has always been “The Product.” Yet, it seems that pressure on that model
April 28 - Saudi Arabia will host an exceptional meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Jeddah on Tuesday, the first in-person meeting of Gulf leaders since their states became a front in the Iran war two months ago.
BYD's first-quarter net profit dropped 55.4 per cent from a year earlier to 4.1 billion yuan.
ZURICH, April 28 - Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court has discontinued a money laundering trial against Gulnara Karimova, a daughter of Uzbekistan's former president, on the grounds that she is not allowed to leave her country in time.
A sea of tents to host more than 1,000 people has built up at the foot of Everest.
Experts have repeatedly sounded the alarm on the proposed zoo's massive animal intake.
April 28 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Israel's purchase of grain from occupied Ukrainian territory \"stolen\" by Russia \"cannot be legitimate business\" and that Kyiv was readying sanctions against those attempting to profit from it.
April 28 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday confronts a case with broad implications for human rights litigation in American courts, a long-running lawsuit brought by members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement who have accused Cisco Systems of facilitating religious
A Taiwanese official said there was strong demand for inter-island patient transfers in places like Ishigaki.
These robots may in future help clean cabins and operate ground support equipment.
Manila and Beijing have been locked in a series of maritime confrontations in the South China Sea.
Anant Ambani, the son of tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said he had put in a formal request to the Colombian government to stay a decision to kill the animals.
Motorists are forced to queue up to six hours for fuel or pay more on the black market, while farmers lack fuel to operate machinery and harvest crops.
The Seoul High Court found Kim Keon Hee guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive ... trading act constituting market manipulation".
The former first lady has been detained in jail since August.
SEOUL, April 28 - South Korea's former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her earlier sentence.
The EU approved a fresh round of sanctions on Russia in April, tightening restrictions on oil trade.
Rising oil prices are cutting into incomes for more than 2 million people across the country’s fishing sector, as costs climb and catches fall.
Tokyo had warned that installing the structure in Auckland could jeopardise diplomatic relations.
In the incident in Johor Bahru’s Ulu Tiram town on May 17, 2024, two police officers were killed and the alleged attacker Radin Luqman Radin Imran was shot dead.
DUBAI, April 28 - Iran is ready to share its defensive weapons capabilities with \"independent countries, especially members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)\", Deputy Defence Minister Reza Talaei-Nik said on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media.
The statue was planned to be installed in a Korean cultural garden on city-owned land.
The Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, was cited as saying by state news agency Xinhua that the economy got off to a better-than-expected start this year.
CCTV footage circulating on social media showed children at the Little Aresha daycare centre in Yogyakarta, most under two, lying on the floor wearing only diapers with their hands and feet bound with rags.
JAKARTA, April 28 - The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a senior minister said on Tuesday, as emergency teams completed work to rescue passengers trapped in the wreckage.
Habitat loss remains the core challenge.
Some seemingly regular events are so massive in their implications across various domains that they deserve their own write-up. TSMC’s highly unusual public complaint of ASML’s latest EUV pricing falls in that category. Not only because the “very very expensive” complainer is
The explosion that tore through the Ummul Qura International Madrasa in Keraniganj on December 26 last year followed a very familiar trajectory. What initially appeared to be a possible accident — perhaps a gas leak — quickly shifted as investigators recovered improvised
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong vowed to work closely with Japan to “navigate global disruption”.
MOSCOW, April 28 - Ukrainian drones attacked Russia's Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, causing a fire, authorities said on Tuesday.
An NGO said the number of executions and death sentences more than doubled in five years since 2020.
China’s rapid rise in science has hit a milestone. The country’s investment in research and development has reached parity with – and by purchasing power measures has surpassed – that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation for Economic