[ad_1] TOKYO: Global free trade is in crisis, the head of the World Trade Organization chief said Tuesday while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba on Tuesday. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, told Ishiba that she has high expectations for Japan as a champion of open markets as US President Donald Trump […]
[ad_1] MEXICO: Peering through a microscope, food scientist Raquel Gomez studies microorganisms that add nutrients and preserve tortillas for several weeks without refrigerators — a luxury in impoverished Mexican communities.The humble tortilla is a Mexican staple, consumed in tacos and other dishes by millions every day, from the Latin American nation’s arid northern deserts to […]
[ad_1] Hamas releases Israeli-American hostage ahead of Donald Trump’s Middle-East visit Hamas released Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier on Monday, as a goodwill gesture towards the Trump administration. He is the first hostage freed since Israel ended an eight-week ceasefire with Hamas back in March and had been held captive in Gaza for over […]
[ad_1] Pope Leo XIV urges release of jailed journalists as Zelensky invites to Ukraine Pope Leo XIV called Monday for the release of jailed journalists and urged reporters against using words that fan hatred, as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky invited him to the war-torn country.Leo, the first US leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, held […]
[ad_1] In most civilised parts of the world, getting cancer doesn’t also mean bankrupting your family. In America, that’s the plot of one of the greatest TV shows of all time. A single vial of life-saving medication can cost more than a European vacation — business class.It’s a longstanding joke with a painful punchline: the […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump, the self-styled dealmaker, may have just landed the deal of the century—or the scandal of the decade. Depending on who you ask, the decision to accept a $400 million Boeing 747-8 from the Qatari royal family as a “temporary” replacement for the aging Air Force One is either a triumph of presidential […]
[ad_1] Food security experts warn Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t end its blockade (Photo: AP) The Gaza Strip will likely fall into famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday. Nearly half a million Palestinians are […]
[ad_1] On Mother’s Day 2025, Amber Heard casually dropped a cultural grenade into the timeline: she’s had twins. Agnes and Ocean. Welcome to the world, kids—your names already sound like a boutique fragrance line or a Netflix dystopia.The internet, being the internet, didn’t just wish her well. It did what it does best: asked the […]
[ad_1] A Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago is returned from South Korea (Photo: AP) A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a years long legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ownership that had […]
[ad_1] Just days into the papacy of Leo XIV, the new pope has begun to lay out his vision for how he will lead the Catholic church. Like his predecessor, he plans to embrace the poor and the marginalized. He wants to continue Francis’s effort to fling open the doors of the Vatican and listen […]
