Aggressive California wildfire threatens thousands of homes
LOS ANGELES: Hundreds of firefighters were building barriers and constructing containment lines to slow an approaching wildfire threatening to torch thousands…
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Respite for firecrews as Portugal blaze dies down
MONCHIQUE, Portugal: Wildfires which have blazed along a stretch of Portugal’s Algarve for a week died down on Thursday, but…
Cambodia PM Facebook hacked to ‘give away parliament seats’
PHNOM PENH: Hackers targeted the official Facebook page of Cambodia’s premier Hun Sen on Friday and falsely claimed he would…
Australia MPs ‘trolled’ by constituents requesting Queen portraits
SYDNEY: Australian politicians have been inundated with “tongue in cheek” requests for portraits of Queen Elizabeth II after a writer…
Nationwide probe after Tokyo med school excludes women
TOKYO: Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation’s medical universities after a Tokyo…
Drive to curb salt intake should focus on China: study
PARIS: Salt consumption exceeds national and World Health Organization guidelines in most countries, but only the highest-sodium diets, such as…
Dozens dead, wounded in attack on Yemen bus carrying children
SANAA: An attack on a bus carrying children in rebel-held northern Yemen yesterday left dozens of people dead or wounded,…
Israel bombs Gaza despite talks of truce
GAZA/SDEROT, Israel: Palestinians fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel and Israel launched scores of air strikes in Gaza as…