Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. Hong Kong CNN — World leaders are converging in Phnom Penh this weekend for the first in a series […]
The inspector was found lifeless by his family at around 12:45pm on Friday, according to South Korean police. The police said they are investigating the circumstances. The news comes after investigators raided the offices of the Yongsan district police station, which oversees the nightlife neighborhood of Itaewon, where the crush took place. This is a […]
A faulty automatic engine throttle system that was not properly monitored by pilots led to a deadly January 2021 crash of a Sriwijaya 737-500 jet, Indonesia’s air accident investigator KNKT said in a final report on Thursday. The crash into the Java Sea after take-off from Jakarta, which killed all 62 people on board, was […]
CNN — An Australian man already sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines for human trafficking and rape has been given an extra 129-year sentence for sexually abusing children as young as 18 months, according to prosecutors. Peter Gerard Scully, his Filipina girlfriend Lezyl Margallo, and two accomplices were charged with 60 offenses that […]
Hong Kong CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend in person a summit of leaders from the Group of 20 nations in Bali next week, the Russian embassy in Indonesia told CNN on Thursday. Putin will be represented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said Yulia Tomskaya, the chief of protocol at the […]
Seoul, South Korea CNN — North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile towards waters off its east coast on Wednesday, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The missile was fired at 3:31 p.m. local time from the Sukchon area of South Pyongan province, according to the JCS. It added that the South […]
CNN — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit western Nepal on Wednesday morning local time, killing at least five people, according to local officials. The epicenter of the quake was located in Seti Zone, with a depth of 15.7 kilometers (9.7 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It was 21 kilometers east of […]
Seoul, South Korea CNN — A pair of dogs gifted by North Korea are the center of a political dispute in South Korea after the country’s former President said he was giving them up over an apparent lack of legal and financial support from his successor to care for the animals. The two white Pungsan […]
CNN — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has told CNN he had information from within intelligence agencies that the shooting which injured him last week would take place. Khan survived a shooting at a political rally in Gujranwala on Thursday, an incident that his party has called an assassination attempt. When asked by CNN’s […]
Seoul CNN — North Korean state media has released images purporting to show last week’s missile launches with a warning that the so-called “reckless military hysteria” of the United States and its allies is moving the Korean peninsula towards “unstable confrontation.” But it made no mention of the suspected failed launch of an intercontinental ballistic […]
