North Korea ups the ante as it fires 3 ballistic missiles
SEOUL: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest such move as the isolated country races to advance its weapons programmes. Three short-range ballistic missiles were fired at around 6:30pm local time from the Sunan area of its capital Pyongyang.
Eleven dead in Cameroon forest aircraft crash YAOUNDE: Nine passengers and two crew died after a plane chartered by a company maintaining a major trans-border oil pipeline crashed in a forest in central Cameroon, state radio said Thursday. “All perished in the disaster,” the radio presenter said. It was found in a forest near Nanga Eboko, some 150km northeast of Yaounde, it said.
US top court to get security amid abortion protests WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department will provide security services to the Supreme Court and its justices in the face of protests against a pending decision to overturn abortion rights, a spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland said. The move comes as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion nationwide.
Palestinians mourn slain Al Jazeera journo RAMALLAH: Thousands gathered to mourn a slain Al Jazeera journalist in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, as the head of the Palestinian Authority blamed Israel for her death and rejected Israeli calls for a joint investigation. Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-american reporter who covered the Mideast conflict for more than 25 years, was shot dead on Wednesday during an Israeli military raid in the
West Bank town of Jenin.