CAEN: A young French woman was killed after being stabbed 14 times by her male partner in front of their three children, prosecutors in northern France said, amid a growing campaign to halt the deaths of women at the hands of their male companions. The man, 37, killed his 27-year-old
TIMIKA: An Indonesian cargo plane with four people on board lost contact with air traffic control on yesterday, an official said, the latest incident to hit the country’s poor aviation record. The Twin Otter DHC6-400, set off from the city of Timika on Wednesday at 10.39 am and was headed
MANILA: More than a thousand ex-prisoners prematurely freed under a controversial law in the Philippines will be captured “dead or alive” if they do not surrender before a Thursday deadline, President Rodrigo Duterte said. His government is scrambling to track down the former inmates — including convicted murderers and rapists
KABUL: The Taliban’s chief negotiator has said their “doors are open” to resuming talks with Washington, hours after two attacks by the insurgents killed at least 48 people in war-weary Afghanistan. Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai also defended the Taliban’s role in recent bloodshed across the country after US President Donald
MADRID: Spain will hold a repeat general election in November — its fourth in four years — after acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez failed to secure the support he needs from other parties. “Spain is bound to hold new elections on November 10,” Sanchez told a news conference late on
BANGKOK: Thai opposition MPs demanded premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s resign following weeks of uproar over the ex-junta head’s omission of a vow to uphold the constitution during his inauguration, raising questions of his legitimacy. The mastermind of a 2014 putsch, Prayut was the five-year junta regime chief before a disputed March
PARIS: France is sending experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate the origin of attacks on Saudi oil facilities that Washington blamed on Iran, the presidency said yesterday after telephone talks between President Emmanuel Macron and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Macron spoke to Prince Mohammed, widely seen as the kingdom’s
NAPLES (Italy): Dries Mertens and Fernando Llorente scored late as holders Liverpool fell 2-0 at Napoli in the opening match of their Champions League title defence on Tuesday. Mertens converted a penalty on 82 minutes and Llorente added a second in stoppage time as Napoli gained a measure of revenge
TOKYO: A man has been found dead inside a capsized fishing boat off northern Japan, with seven other crew members missing. The 29-tonne Keieimaru No.65 with eight Japanese fishermen on board lost communication on waters some 640 kilometres east of Cape Nosappu in Hokkaido on Tuesday, a coastguard spokesman said
LUXEMBOURG: Apple went on the offensive against Brussels in an EU court yesterday, fighting the European Commission’s landmark order that the iPhone-maker reimburse Ireland 13 billion euros in back taxes. The EU’s tax demand, delivered in 2016, “defies reality and common sense,” Apple’s lawyer Daniel Beard told the EU’s lower
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