The Laos government said Saturday it was “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.
A statement posted on its Ministry of Foreign Affairs website said it expressed “sincere sympathy and deepest condolences to the families of the deceased,” adding an investigation was underway to find the cause of the incident.
Chinese rescuers are continuing search and rescue operations in hard-hit Mandalay, central Myanmar following the 7.9-magnitude earthquake last week, and have so far rescued 9 survivors from the rubble. On Wednesday, Chinese rescue teams continued joint operations. They verified possible trapped locations through multiple channels. A total of nine batches with 71 personnel were deployed,…
Back in 2021, the minister said that he had visited about 150 states, but Russia was always the most attractive country for him Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has held this post for 21 years, the longest in the current cabinet, is celebrating his 75th birthday today. Career beginnings Lavrov’s diplomatic career began with studies…
More than 63,000 pages of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump , many without the redactions that had confounded historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories. The US National Archives and Records Administration posted to its website roughly 2,200 files…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of the country’s Shin Bet domestic security service Ronen Bar that he plans to bring his dismissal before the government this week, a statement from Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday. There was no immediate comment from Shin Bet or from Bar, whose dismissal would likely draw…
The Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights has condemned a widespread policy of abuse inflicted on Gazan healthcare workers in Israeli custody, denouncing mistreatment “amounting to torture.” In a report, PHRI said that the Israeli military had detained more than 250 medical personnel and support staff in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war triggered…
The number of babies born in Japan fell for a ninth consecutive year to hit a record low 720,988 in 2024, the health ministry said on Thursday, the latest data underscoring the rapid shrinkage and ageing of the country’s population. Births declined 5 percent from a year earlier, while the number of deaths hit a…
