Vorapak Tanyawong denies wrongdoing but steps down to fight legal battle
The crew seized several tons of crystal methamphetamine and a smaller amount of cocaine
Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister yesterday, shattering the political glass ceiling and setting the country up for a decisive turn to the right.
Embassy reopening follows visit by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi
Ten South Koreans have been arrested in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscams and two more rescued, Seoul’s top diplomat said yesterday, days after dozens accused of working in the vast fraud operation were repatriated.
Starlink did not respond to a request for comment following AFP's investigation
Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to an immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, both sides said yesterday, after a week of fierce border clashes, the worst violence between the South Asian neighbours since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021.
China yesterday accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks on Beijing’s national time centre that could have caused severe damage to critical financial and telecommunications infrastructure.
Sixty-four South Koreans who had been detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscam operations returned home yesterday and were under arrest, a police official told AFP.
The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes
Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said.
Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday mutually agreed to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until conclusion of planned talks in Doha, according to three Pakistani security officials and one Afghan Taliban source.
Said White House official describing trade talks between two countries 'productive'
Murayama, in office from 1994-1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II
Dozens of troops and civilians were killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, hours before Islamabad said the two sides had agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire.
More than 80 women and children had been wounded
The private bus, carrying 57 passengers left Jaisalmer at around 3:00pm
Eighty South Koreans who were possible victims of fake jobs or scam centres were unaccounted for in Cambodia, South Korea’s foreign ministry told AFP yesterday, after the torture death of a student there shocked the country.
