Views: 14 A fire broke out at Golden Mile Tower at Beach Road this afternoon (Aug 31), with social media users on Facebook, X and TikTok sharing photos and videos of thick smoke coming out of the building shortly after 1pm. Multiple vehicles parked in close proximity on the rooftop carpark were on fire. They appear to be of the […]
Views: 9 The CLE200 Coupe may have been the one that heralded in a fresh two-door era for Mercedes-Benz on our shores. But Mercedes-Benz Singapore seems to know that good things tend to come in threes. On Thursday morning (22 August 2024), its CLE family here was thus expanded with not just one, but two
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Views: 11 GULF TODAY A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Daesh group in western Iraq, with seven US troops injured during the operation, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Friday. The raid targeted Daesh leaders and was carried out early Thursday morning, resulting “in the death of 15
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Views: 6 BERLIN, Aug 31 — Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv’s right to self-defence, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory. “Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right
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Views: 5 TOKYO, Aug 31 — At least six people were dead as Typhoon Shanshan crept eastward through Japan today, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood warnings hundreds of kilometres from the storm’s centre. Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed homes with roofs partly sheared off while cars drove wheels-deep on
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Views: 6 United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced that it had received a report that a merchant ship was hit by two missiles while passing through the Gulf of Aden. UKMTO reported that the first missile hit within 50 meters of the ship’s bow, while the second missile hit near the ship’s stern, indicating the targeting’s
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Views: 6 Former US President Donald Trump blamed Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, accusing her of being responsible for the fate of thousands of children who entered the US illegally and getting sidetracked here. Trump alleged that many of these children are now missing, dead, or being exploited as sex slaves, and
Views: 4 TOKYO — TOKYO (AP) — Japan lodged a formal protest via China’s embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into its territorial waters Saturday, the Japanese foreign ministry said. The ministry expressed “strong concern” after the ship was spotted near Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, early in the morning. The Chinese ship,
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Views: 6 INDEPENDENT A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground on Friday 30 August, killing seven people and injuring at least 77 more, local authorities said. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video of the aftermath of the strike, and said a 14-year-old girl was among the dead.
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Views: 4 INDEPENDENT Ukraine urged Mongolia to arrest Russian president Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes when he visited the country on 3 September. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant in March last year accusing Mr Putin of the war crime of unlawfully deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia during its invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin responded saying it was “not worried”. “The Ukrainian
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