1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (500+ words) DOONBEG: Donald Trump turned his focus Sunday to golf and promoting his business interests, as he wraps up a two-day visit to Ireland during which his off-the-cuff diplomacy has caused another stir. The US president caught his Irish hosts and…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (435+ words) VIENTIANE, Laos: Isolated, under-developed Laos brands itself the "Battery of Southeast Asia”, powering its neighbors with dozens of hydroelectric plants, but frequent power outages leave its own people in the dark. Exports of electricity to neighboring countries including Thailand and…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (280+ words) These have severely restricted grain exports in the Black Sea—a crucial source of Kyiv’s revenue. The strikes have also targeted steel companies, another key sector, as well as supply chains—notably in the rail sector—and major warehouses. "The…...

9+ hour, 59+ min ago   (361+ words) NEW DELHI: BRICS leaders closed a two-day summit in New Delhi on Sunday with a call for economic cooperation, a day after issuing a rare joint statement urging restraint over the war in the Middle East. The statement was the…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (160+ words) KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education announced Sunday its readiness to welcome 481,000 students for the 2026-27 academic year, ensuring schools and educational and administrative staff are prepared for a safe and stable learning environment. The ministry said in a statement that the…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (315+ words) JAKARTA: One person died and 102 others were rescued on Sunday after a ferry carrying 243 passengers and crew ran into bad weather in the Java Sea, Indonesian rescue officials said. The Virgo Transport 8 had left Surabaya in East Java for the…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago   (215+ words) KUWAIT: Minister of Education Sayed Jalal Al-Tabtabaei and Minister of State for Youth and Sports Affairs Dr. Tareq Al-Jalahma stressed the importance of a joint cooperation protocol to strengthen coordination in school sports and develop student programs and activities. In…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago   (483+ words) SAPTARI: For 10 days Sanjay Sah lay in darkness inside a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal, drinking muddy water and losing all sense of time. When a disaster response team reached him on Sept 4, his first question showed how far the…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (335+ words) CORON: The bodies of 41 more victims of the M/V June Aster were brought ashore in the Philippine resort area of Coron on Sunday, raising the confirmed death toll from the ferry fire to 76 in the country's worst such disaster…...

14+ hour, 56+ min ago   (495+ words) STOCKHOLM: Swedes vote Sunday in a general election that will either put the far right into government for the first time or return the left-wing opposition to power, after a race that tightened into a dead heat in its closing…...