The Asian Financial Crisis hit shortly after Tung took over, which sent home prices diving. His administration was also beset by a series of public health challenges, including a bird flu outbreak from 1997 to 2002 and the 2003 outbreak of Sars, also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.But Tung’s biggest political challenge took place
Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuseMeta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found.The report comes two months after the Indian government ordered Meta to remove all ads and content promoting child sexual
The US is banning Canadian products, including alcohol, dairy and motor vehicles, as Canadian retaliatory tariffs on American goods come into force.In a series of executive orders on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump wrote that Canada is “discriminating” against the commerce of the United States, and ordered the import ban, which will begin 29 September.Earlier
The bankruptcy filing was made in the federal district court of New Jersey, where LIV Golf set up a subsidiary earlier in the summer.Chapter 11 protection postpones a US company’s obligations to its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business.PIF is providing a bankruptcy loan of $49.6m (£36.6m)
The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, which in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”.Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in recent
Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the worst ever small boats disaster in the English Channel.In November 2021, at least 30 men, women and children drowned when their motorised dinghy deflated and started taking on water halfway between France and the UK.The 14 defendants – mainly Afghan
Juicy brown and ripening yellow dates dangle down from the branches of each palm tree at Israeli settler farms in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.This year, as Israeli growers get ready for a good harvest, they are also preparing for the impact of new Western sanctions against settlements, which are illegal under
The British government dismissed Milei’s speech and stressed that its position on the Falklands was “unwavering”.Hopes that Milei’s primetime speech may have been a blip and that he would return to his previous stance of strengthening diplomatic ties with the UK were crushed on Monday, however, when his office announced it would file criminal charges
The five people killed and five injured when an Amazon cargo plane crashed on landing at Miami International Airport were in two vehicles on the ground, investigators said.The Boeing 767-300, operated by 21 Air, overshot the runway on Sunday and hit an airline cleaning van holding seven people before breaking the perimeter fence and striking
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods came into effect on Tuesday, with no sign of a trade deal on the horizon. The counter-tariffs will apply to nearly C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) worth of American products, from steel to furniture to cotton T-shirts, and will be as high as 50%. Fresh fish and lobster
The first road bridge linking Russia and North Korea has opened, allowing the two countries to more easily move cargo and passengers between their border across the Tumen river.Pyongyang state media said the bridge will be used for “personnel exchanges, tourism and trade”. But Ukrainian OSINT group Truth Hounds said the bridge is intended “primarily
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko has resigned over corruption allegations related to illegal call centres in the country.It follows a search of his offices over the weekend by Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators, who said they had identified a money-laundering scheme led by an official in Kravchenko’s office.In his resignation letter, Kravchenko said he did not want
The Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday after staff went on strike over female workers being removed for the visit of a Hindu religious group, workers and management said.A delegation of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group visited the landmark in the French capital on Saturday.Staff union representative
