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1. West Bank settlers steal Palestinian family’s sheep herd ahead of Eid festival

   Palestinian shepherd Sameeha Rasheed was planning for the sacred ritual of sacrificing her family’s sheep for the Eid al-Adha holiday, one of the holiest occasions in Islam, but West Bank Jewish settlers stole them in a predawn raid, she said. Instead of celebrating, Rasheed has been left with nothing and has also been deprived of the income she would have received from selling the sheep not...

2. Concerns mount in China’s space sector that Musk’s Starship will be a failure

   There are growing doubts within China’s space sector that Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket being developed by SpaceX in the United States, will ever overcome its engineering and financial challenges and deliver for founder and CEO Elon Musk. Starship’s latest flight on Friday – weeks before the company’s expected initial public offering (IPO) – was described as “mostly successful” by...

3. Tanker hit by explosion near Hormuz hours after US strikes on Iran

   An explosion damaged a tanker close to its waterline as it sailed off Oman, a marine monitor said on Tuesday, as tensions remained high around the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. “The crew and vessel are safe, although the master reports some bunker fuel has discharged into the sea,” UK Maritime Trade Operations said. The incident, in the Gulf of Oman about 60 nautical miles east of Muscat, was an...

4. Deadly building collapse shocks Philippine city: ‘like an aeroplane landing’

   James Bernardo, 30, was delivering food on Teodoro street in Angeles City in the Philippines when a nine-storey building under construction on the opposite side of the road collapsed behind him. “What I heard behind me sounded like an aeroplane landing. The sound was unlike anything normal. When I looked at my side mirror and then turned around, what I saw were pylons falling and power lines...

5. Mainland Chinese mum who offered bribe for son’s Hong Kong school place spared jail

   A mainland Chinese mother who tried to secure a Hong Kong secondary school place for her son by offering a bribe to an assistant principal received a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday. Cai Yu, 39, was also accused of deleting evidence after anti-corruption authorities launched an investigation. The woman on Tuesday told acting principal magistrate Daniel Tang Siu-hung at Tuen Mun Court that she...

6. Trump makes everything worse but he didn’t start it

   While cleaning my basement, I found an old copy of Foreign Affairs dated September/October 2014. If you didn’t look at the publication date but only its table of contents, you would have thought it was a recent edition. Titled “See America: Land of Decay & Dysfunction”, the edition’s front cover is a painting of a crumbling Capitol Building that houses the United States Congress. Keep in mind we...

7. Malaysia police’s ‘gay party’ label sparks debate after hotel drug raid

   Malaysian police have arrested 51 men in a drug raid at a luxury Kuala Lumpur hotel, describing the scene as a “gay party” with “immoral activities” committed. The language has drawn scrutiny from lawyers and rights advocates who say the terms risked prejudicing suspects and stigmatising LGBTQ people. Bukit Aman narcotics chief Hussein Omar Khan said four raids were carried out between 2.35am...

8. High-altitude turbulence tricky to detect, experts say, as Cathay investigates case

   Even the most advanced aircraft radar systems cannot fully detect high-altitude turbulence, aviation experts have said, as Cathay Pacific Airways investigates an incident that injured 10 people on a Hong Kong-bound flight from Brisbane last week. Hong Kong’s flag carrier revealed on Tuesday that it had launched the probe following calls for an inquiry into the weather forecast relayed to the...

9. Mango founder’s son steps down as vice-chair amid probe into father’s death

   Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, said on Tuesday he was stepping down temporarily as the fashion group’s vice chair after being named a suspect in an investigation into his father’s death, while strongly asserting his innocence. “The attention and focus that my defence in the judicial process currently requires do not allow me to maintain the high level of commitment demanded by...

10. Why US and Canadian conservatives backed Trump’s China trip but slammed Carney’s

    When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing in January, US conservative podcaster Alex Jones accused him of bowing to China’s leadership. In Canada, the opposition Conservative Party was no less scathing in its criticism. Party leader Pierre Poilievre questioned how Carney went “from saying China was Canada’s ‘biggest security threat’ before the election to announcing a ‘strategic...