NEW DELHI (DPA) – The body of an Indian magician who attempted to perform Harry Houdini’s famed underwater escape trick has been discovered, police said on Tuesday (June 18), confirming that he drowned while attempting the feat. “His body washed up around 2 kilometres from the site of the incident and was identified by his […]
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a strong earthquake which shook the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Yibin in Changning County, south-east of the provincial capital Chengdu, late on Monday, officials said. It was followed by several powerful aftershocks. TV footage showed […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Italy will cut spending to meet its fiscal deficit targets this year and can reach an agreement with the European Commission over its budgetary plans, Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said on Tuesday. Speaking to bond investors and bankers at a conference in London, Tria sought to reassure the international financial community that […]
SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will ease policy again if inflation does not rise back to its target, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Tuesday, reinforcing expectations for even more stimulus in the coming weeks. The ECB has undershot its inflation target of just under 2 percent since 2013 and a slowdown […]
PYONGYANG (AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to North Korea this week was in the news in Pyongyang on Tuesday (June 18), but in the country where Kim Jong Un comes first, it only just made the front page. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the ruling Workers’ Party, made it […]
SINGAPORE – Students will play the role of youth ambassadors in August, taking foreign guests in the Republic for the signing of an international treaty around Singapore and through its history and heritage. About 700 international delegates are expected to witness the signing of the Singapore Convention on Mediation on August 7 at Maxwell Chambers. […]
SINGAPORE – SingHealth received a $40 million donation from Ngee Ann Development for medical research and efforts to advance patient care on Tuesday (June 18) at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus in College Road. The sum, which will be managed by SingHealth Fund, will be used for research in areas such as ageing and population […]
A New Zealand man who shared a livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks has been jailed for 21 months. Philip Arps sent the video to 30 people and to a friend, asking for it to be modified to include a “kill count”. Christchurch District Judge Stephen O’Driscoll said Arps held “unrepentant views” towards the […]
BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Alarm bells are ringing in Germany. Amid its continuous heroic struggle with its egregious actions during World War II, it moves to impose further on personal privacy in a bid to stem crime. The information stored on a smart fridge, for example, could prove whether you were at home […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Seven days before his alleged sexual tryst with a cabinet minister, the accuser, Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, posted on Facebook a group photograph of him and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the cinema to watch Avengers: Endgame. It was an apt movie title in the wake […]