World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
Oman GMF Technic will service aircraft at a new Muscat airport facility and aims to cut how often airlines fly them abroad for checks. Investment and job figures were not disclosed.
Eisenkot told caretaker Netanyahu not to deploy the army without an immediate threat. Iran’s security chief warned that bases from West Asia to Europe would be targets.
Student and youth bodies want arrests over alleged attacks on Nyishi people amid tension with the Hrusso (Aka) community. Traffic to Tawang and Bomdila is restricted.
Mehdi Mohammadi says Washington set a two-week window before Trump decides on military action. Trump says he wants ‘total victory’, not 93 percent.
The ship that still holds the fastest Atlantic crossing record once carried presidents and film stars. It will become the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida.
Tajong Talom was detained outside Pasighat jail in a new case over the October 23 Siang dam protest. His family says no arrest order was shown.
One is believed to be a rebel from the 1835 Malê revolt. Taken for racist eugenics studies, the remains will be buried, not displayed.
The strike damaged the intensive care and surgical wards in Khan Younis. Israeli Army Radio called it an “assassination operation”; the army has not confirmed it.
Reports say the board could act within days after Huang admitted infidelity amid claims he was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy. Beijing calls the spy story baseless.
A forensic check of Simbarashe Kundizeza’s drafts found The Blue Fighter was human-written, the prize says, after detection software was said to have flagged it.
