North Korea has fired a pair of short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to South Korea’s military, two days after Pyongyang resumed banned testing activities with an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. South Korea detected the two launches from a western coastal town, just north of the North Korean capital, on Monday morning, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. North Korea’s state media said two projectiles were fired from a multiple rocket launcher, aiming at targets 395km (245 miles) and 337km (209 miles) away, respectively. “The 600mm multiple rocket launcher mobilised in the firing ……
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Ukraine is planning to stage a nuclear incident on its territory to pin the blame on Moscow ahead of a key United Nations meeting, Russia has alleged without providing evidence. Radioactive substances have been transported to Ukraine from an unnamed European country and Kyiv was preparing a large-scale “provocation”, Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement on Sunday. “The aim of the provocation is to accuse Russia’s army of allegedly carrying out indiscriminate strikes on hazardous radioactive facilities in Ukraine, leading to the leakage of radioactive substances and contamination of the area,” it said. Russia has repeatedly accused Kyiv of…
Oil tanker in the Gulf was ‘hit by an airborne object’ while in the Arabian Sea, owner says.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused arch-foe Iran of attacking an Israeli-linked oil tanker earlier this month. “On the Iranian front, our efforts are unceasing for the simple reason that Iran’s acts of aggression are unceasing,” Netanyahu said on Sunday at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting. “Last week Iran again attacked an oil tanker in the Gulf [region] and struck at the international freedom of navigation,” he said. Campo Square, a Liberian-flagged product tanker, was on February 10 “hit by…
It has been almost a year now since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sowing death and destruction across the country. The toll of the war is grim: thousands of Ukrainian civilians dead, tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides killed, millions displaced, whole Ukrainian towns and villages razed to the ground. As we move into the second year, both sides are preparing large-scale offensives, with tens of thousands of new recruits and new sophisticated hardware being sent to the front line. A wide range of scenarios that are viable to a different extent may unfold this year.…
Antakya, Turkey – In a field hospital set up for animals in this southern city, a cat meowed in half-hearted protest as he was gently laid on a table, examined, and injected with painkillers and antibiotics by a volunteer veterinarian and her assistant. The British Shorthair had been stuck in an apartment following two huge earthquakes on February 6. After almost two weeks, he finally jumped to the ground several floors below, where somebody found him injured. The dust-coated cat could not use his back legs and was suffering from suspected hypothermia, so he was transferred to an incubator to…
When John Schneider isn’t managing the Toronto Blue Jays, he’s busy taking his wife out to lunch and saving lives at the same time. At least, that was the scene a couple weeks ago. Speaking to Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae and Shi Davidi, Schneider said while he was out for lunch he saw a woman choking and struggling to breathe, with people around her not knowing what to do. Schneider, who’d learned the Heimlich Maneuver in high school, then walked over to offer help. It turns out Schneider definitely listened in school because he successfully performed the maneuver despite not being…
Britain’s Cameron Norrie lost in straight sets to top seed Carlos Alcaraz in the final of the Argentina Open.Second seed Norrie, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year, had been seeking a fifth ATP Tour singles title at the clay-court event in Buenos Aires. But Alcaraz, returning after being sidelined since November with abdominal and leg injuries, proved too strong, the 19-year-old US Open champion triumphing 6-3, 7-5 in just over an hour-and-a-half to become the youngest Argentina Open champion.The match went with serve up to 3-3 before world No 2 Alcaraz broke Norrie twice in succession to secure the opening set.Norrie,…
For Sania Mirza, a tennis journey spanning 30 years that began on courts prepared from cow dung in south India is set to conclude in a tennis stadium nestled among the glitzy skyscrapers of Dubai this week. Last month’s Australian Open was her final grand slam. On the famous Margaret Court Arena, as the sun set on a hot Melbourne day, Mirza recorded her final grand slam win – a mixed doubles semifinal along with her Indian compatriot Rohan Bopanna. Once the high fives and handshakes were over, Mirza turned her attention towards her four-year-old son Izhaan, who gleefully jumped…
Foreign policy chief supports Estonian proposal for EU to buy ammunition on behalf of its members to help Ukraine.The West must provide more military aid to Ukraine and speed up its deliveries, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, says. “Much more has to be done and much quicker,” Borrell said at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. “There is still a lot to be done. We have to increase and accelerate our military support.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies to speed up their military aid for Ukraine, warning attendees at the conference on Friday that delays…
The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) says search and rescue operations have ended in most provinces nearly two weeks after this month’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. “The death toll due to the earthquakes rose to 40,642, and the work of searching and rescue for people stuck under the debris has ended in most of the provinces,” Yunis Sezar, head of AFAD, said in a presser on Saturday. “We believe we will end the search and rescue operations by tomorrow night,” he added. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey’s southeast and neighbouring Syria on February 6, killing…