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Authorities deliver sandbags to areas on the path of Cyclone Alfred in Queensland
'Scary' tropical Cyclone Alfred nears Queensland
BRISBANE — The wind has been kicking up along Australia's Gold Coast and so too has the swell. But while authorities have been warning residents to stay indoors as Cyclone Alfred approaches, die-hard surfers have been throwing caution to the increasing wind."This is what we look forward to," said Jeff Weatherall as he waited for a jet ski to pick him up from Kirra beach and carry him into the big waves. "This is the fifth day straight — I've done nothing but eat, sleep, surf and do it again."Kirra beach is famous for its breakers and this week has been busy as surfers wait for Cyclone Alfred.The cyclone is expected to make landfall as a category two system on Saturday morning.Its path has slowed in recent days and has been moving "erratically"...
March 07, 2025

'Scary' tropical Cyclone Alfred nears Queensland

The incident happened on a Jetstar service at a Melbourne airport
Teen armed with gun overpowered by passengers onboard plane
SYDNEY — Police in Australia have charged a 17-year-old who got on a plane with a shotgun and ammunition.He was filmed being wrestled to the ground by passengers and crew as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, carrying 160 people bound for Sydney on Thursday afternoon.Police believe the teenager got onto the airport tarmac by breaching a security fence, before climbing the front steps to the plane, where he was tackled to the ground near the front door.The 17-year-old - who has not been identified — was taken into custody and will appear in youth court to face eight charges.Among them are unlawfully taking control of an aircraft, endangering the flight's safety and creating a bomb hoax.Victoria Police said a bomb specialist had to be brought in to...
March 07, 2025

Teen armed with gun overpowered by passengers onboard plane

North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020
North Korea halts tourism just weeks after reopening
SEOUL — North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years.North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, and started to scale back restrictions in the middle of 2023.It opened up to Russian visitors in 2024, but it was only last month that Western tourists were allowed into the remote, eastern city Rason.However several tour companies now say that trips to the reclusive country have been canceled until further notice. Pyongyang has not given a reason for the sudden halt."Just received news from our Korean partners that Rason is closed to everyone. We will keep you posted," China-based KTG Tours, which specializes in North Korean tours, said...
March 06, 2025

North Korea halts tourism just weeks after reopening

Phil Goff
New Zealand fires envoy to UK over Trump comments
WELLINGTON — New Zealand has fired its most senior envoy to the United Kingdom over his remarks that questioned US President Donald Trump's grasp of history.High Commissioner to the UK Phil Goff's comments were "deeply disappointing" and made his position "untenable", New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters said.At an event in London on Tuesday, Goff compared efforts to end the war in Ukraine to the Munich Agreement in 1938, which allowed Adolf Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia.Goff recalled how Sir Winston Churchill criticised the agreement, then said of the US leader: "President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?"Goff's comments come after Trump paused military aid...
March 06, 2025

New Zealand fires envoy to UK over Trump comments

South Korea's air force said that its KF-16 fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs outside of its firing range during a military drill
15 injured after South Korean fighter jet accidentally drops bombs
SEOUL — Fifteen people in South Korea were injured, two of them seriously, after a pair of fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs in a civilian district during a live-fire military exercise, local media reported. The incident involving the Air Force KF-16 aircraft took place at around 10:04 local time (01:04 GMT) in the city of Pocheon, near the border with North Korea. South Korea's Air Force said that it was investigating the incident and apologized for the damage, adding it would provide compensation to those affected. While shells from live firing exercises sometimes land near civilian residences, they rarely cause injuriesOnly one bomb is believed to have exploded. A bomb disposal team is working on safely disposing of the other seven unexploded bombs, Pocheon...
March 06, 2025

15 injured after South Korean fighter jet accidentally drops bombs

One in five Indian households have put their savings in the stock market
Boom to gloom: India middle-class jitters amid trillion-dollar market rout
NEW DELHI — Two years ago, on his bank adviser's suggestion, Rajesh Kumar pulled out his savings — fixed deposits included — and shifted to mutual funds, stocks and bonds.With India's stock market booming, Kumar, a Bihar-based engineer, joined millions investing in publicly traded companies. Six years ago, only one in 14 Indian households channelled their savings into the stock market — now, it's one in five.But the tide has turned.For six months, India's markets have slid as foreign investors pulled out, valuations remained high, earnings weakened and global capital shifted to China — wiping out $900bn in investor value since their September peak. While the decline began before US President Donald Trump's tariff announcements, they have now become a bigger...
March 06, 2025

Boom to gloom: India middle-class jitters amid trillion-dollar market rout

Muhammad Yunus
Bangladesh leader likens Sheikh Hasina regime to 'terrible tornado'
DHAKA — Bangladesh's interim leader says he felt "dazzled" when asked to take charge after long-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina was driven from power last year."I had no idea I'd be leading the government," Muhammad Yunus told the BBC. "I had never run a government machine before and had to get the buttons right."Once that settled down, we started organizing things," the Nobel-prize winning economist said, adding that restoring law and order and fixing the economy were priorities for the country.It's unclear if Hasina, who fled into exile in India, and her party will participate in elections Yunus hopes to hold later this year. She is wanted in Bangladesh for alleged crimes against humanity."They [the Awami League] have to decide...
March 06, 2025

Bangladesh leader likens Sheikh Hasina regime to 'terrible tornado'

Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivers the government work report at the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Wednesday.
China defies Trump’s trade war by setting ambitious 5% growth target
HONG KONG — China has set an ambitious target of “around 5%” growth for 2025, in a defiant show of confidence as it braces for the fallout from escalating American tariffs on its export-driven economy.The target “underscores our resolve to meet difficulties head-on and strive hard to deliver,” Premier Li Qiang, China’s No. 2 official, said on Wednesday as he delivered the government work report at the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s rubber-stamp legislature.Li gave his state-of-the-union-like speech shortly before US President Donald Trump began his first address to Congress in his second term, a split-screen moment between the two great power rivals, with both leaders laying out what they each see as the best way forward to solidify...
March 05, 2025

China defies Trump’s trade war by setting ambitious 5% growth target

Cyclone Alfred is the first cyclone to pass near Brisbane in 50 years.
Rare cyclone threatens millions on Australia’s east coast
BRISBANE — Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are preparing for the impact of the most southerly cyclone to threaten the region in more than five decades.Tropical Cyclone Alfred, with strength the equivalent of a category 1 Atlantic hurricane, is expected to cross the coast just south of the Queensland capital of Brisbane, home to 2.5 million people, in the early hours of Friday, potentially at high tide, complicating the days ahead for emergency services.“This is a rare event – to have a tropical cyclone in an area that is not classified as part of the tropics, here in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW),” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Brisbane on Wednesday.The last cyclone to cross near Brisbane of a similar strength was Cyclone...
March 05, 2025

Rare cyclone threatens millions on Australia’s east coast

Jagtar Singh Johal was arrested in 2017 in the northern Punjab region of India
Scottish man acquitted in India terror case
NEW DELHI — A Scottish Sikh man detained in India for seven years on terror charges has been cleared in one of nine cases against him.Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was arrested in 2017 in the country's northern Punjab region weeks after his wedding there.He has been held in prison ever since, on trial for his alleged role in a series of targeted killings of religious and political figures.Now a verdict in the District Court in Moga, Punjab, has acquitted him of conspiracy under the country's anti-terror law and of being a member of a "terrorist gang".His legal team say the allegations against Johal in all the cases, for which he faces the death penalty, are close to identical and that the other charges should now be dismissed.His brother Gurpreet Singh Johal has...
March 04, 2025

Scottish man acquitted in India terror case

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