SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament on Tuesday passed a landmark ban on production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country’s international image.Some angry dog farmers said they plan to challenge the bill’s constitutionality and hold protest rallies
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s leading presidential candidate William Lai said Tuesday he hopes for a reopening of dialogue with China following almost eight years of Beijing’s near-complete refusal to communicate with leaders of the self-governing island it considers its own territory.But Lai told reporters he would continue the current administration’s policy of maintaining democratic
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) — Voters in Bhutan, a landlocked country in the eastern Himalayan mountain range with a population of around 800,000 people, began casting their ballots Tuesday to elect a new Parliament, hoping the politicians make good on their promises to fix the nation’s economic crisis.Some voters are expected to trek in freezing temperatures
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has temporarily grounded three Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners, following an incident last week in which an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage.The three aircraft, grounded since Saturday, belong to the Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air. The decision was made
An Israeli drone strike hit a car Tuesday morning in southern Lebanon, killing three people inside it, security officials in the area and the state news agency said. The strike on Ghandouriyeh, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with Israel, came a day after a similar attack killed a commander with the militant
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal investigators say a door panel slid up before flying off an Alaska Airlines jetliner last week, and they are looking at whether four bolts that were supposed to help hold the panel in place might have been missing when the plane took off.The comments Monday from the National Transportation Safety
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Tuesday in an annual procession in the Philippines’ capital that paraded a centuries-old black statue of Jesus. Many said they were praying for peace in the Middle East, where tens of thousands of Filipinos work, as fears rise of a spread of
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan died in a hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, to seven.Police said in a statement that at least three officers
BANGKOK (AP) — European markets opened lower on Tuesday after a mixed session in Asia, where Tokyo’s benchmark closed at a 33-year high. Germany’s DAX fell 0.4% to 16,654.65 and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.2% to 7,433.01. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged 0.1% lower to 7,688.41. The futures for the S&P 500 and Dow
Politika | 09.01.2024 | access_time 10:20 Lider Jedinstvene Srbije (JS) Dragan Marković Palma izjavio je da izbori nisu pokradeni, kao i da su uslovi za sve bili podjednaki.On je u intervjuu Novostima postavio pitanje onima koji se, kako je rekao, sada bune, da, “ako su mislili da su uslovi loši, zašto su išli na izbore”.”Svako
