January 2, 2025
News Headlines
January 2, 2025
15 killed, 30 injured as US army veteran flying IS…
A US Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and ploughed into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people in an attack, officials
January 2, 2025
South Korea police raid Jeju Air, airport over fat…
South Korean police on Thursday raided the offices of Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of the probe into the fatal crash of a Boeing 737-800 plane that killed
January 2, 2025
China slaps sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms…
Soldiers drive M60 tanks on a street as part of a military drill in Taichung, Taiwan. — Reuters/File BEIJING: China sanctioned 10 US defence firms on Thursday over arms sales to Taiwan, its second
January 2, 2025
27 die after two boats capsize off Tunisia
Representational image of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit in a makeshift boat off the coast of Tunisia’s city of Sfax on October 4, 2022. — AFP TUNIS: At least 27 migrants, including women and
January 2, 2025
Filipino hotel breaks world record with unique bui…
A unique hotel in the Philippines has set a new Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest building shaped like a chicken. The 10-storey-high rooster hatched at the Campuestohan Highland Resort in Negros
January 2, 2025
South Korea police raid Jeju Air, airport over fat…
The wreckage of the Jeju Air aircraft that went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport lies near a concrete structure it crashed into, in Muan, South Korea, December 30, 2024. —
January 2, 2025
What we know so far
Vast presence of law enforcement at the scene of a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street on January 1, 2025. — Reuters/Stephen Lew-Imagn NEW ORLEANS: The United States saw 2025 begin with
January 2, 2025
Israel attacks Gaza humanitarian zone, killing at …
At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on makeshift tents housing displaced people in a designated humanitarian safe zone in southern Gaza, local medics and
January 2, 2025