Three fuel trucks exploded, killing three people, and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi airport on Monday in what Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said was an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirates.

Military

Middle East

Drones

Asia

Terrorism

Politics

Videos

Oil and Gas Sector

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sana'a

Abu Dhabi

Yahoo News

Times of India

The Guardian

CBC News

Reuters

UAE says fuel truck blast kills three, Yemeni Houthis claim attack

Tickets for the Winter Olympics set to begin on Feb. 4 will be distributed to "targeted" groups of people and will not be sold to the general public, the organising committee said on Monday, in the latest setback to the Games inflicted by COVID-19. Organisers had said in September that there would not be any international spectators at the Games, under COVID-19 prevention

Olympics

International

Coronavirus

Medical

Sports

Pandemic

Beijing

BBC News

Beijing Olympics tickets will not be publicly sold due to COVID-19

BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA great Yao Ming said Monday he and others had a pleasant talk when they met last month with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose disappearance after making a sexual assault allegation against a former government…

CTV News

abc News

Associated Press News

Former NBA great Yao Ming addresses Peng Shuai, Olympics

PARIS: The world's 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday.

Europe

Business

Taxes

Economy

poverty

Paris, France

New York, NY

London, England

Paris

NDTV

The Independent

World's 10 richest men doubled wealth during Covid: report

Pitching tents hours before the opening of Nike stores so as to be the first to get inside, customers sprinted into the stores like a mad mob. A witness to the scene at Shinsegae Department Store in Daegu said it was “scary to see them running like zombies.”

Tech

Nike

The Korea Times

Hunt for limited edition Nike Jordan golf shoes cause mayhem in stores nationwide

The number of Covid-19 cases in China has reached the highest since March 2020, as Beijing races to stamp out the highly transmissible coronavirus variant just three weeks before hosting the Winter Olympics.

IBTimes

RTÉ

Anadolu Ajansı

The Guardian Nigeria

China virus cases highest in nearly two years

BEIJING - The birth rate in mainland China in 2021 dropped to a record low of 7.52 births per 1,000 people, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Monday. The birth rate in 2020 was 8.52 births per 1,000 people. There were 10.62 million births in 2021, official data also showed. (Reporting by Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

The Hindu 

Birth rate in mainland China in 2021 drops to record low

Another "large eruption" has been detected at the Tonga volcano, a Darwin-based monitoring station said Monday, two days after a massive eruption triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific.

volcano

Nature

Americas

Oceania

South America

Latin America

natural disasters

Tonga

Darwin

New York Post

NBC Chicago 

Chicago Sun Times

Another 'large eruption' detected at Tonga volcano: monitor

North Korea launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400 million worth of digital assets last year, one of its most successful years on record, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said in a new report.

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin

Pyongyang

N.Korean hackers stole $400 mln in cryptocurrency in 2021

ad fontes media

Media Bias/Fact Check

Hankook Ilbo

Dongwha Enterprise

South Korea

The Korea Times

Stay current with all the latest news from The Korea Times here and with perspectives from other news sources

TRENDING NOW

THE KOREA TIMES BLINDSPOTS

FOR THE RIGHT

LATEST STORIES

THE KOREA TIMES MEDIA BIAS RATINGS

HEADQUARTERS

LATEST TWEET

Get the weekly blindspot report right in your inbox and stay up to date with your bias blindspot.

EXPLORE MORE CURRENT TOPICS

Subscribe and get full access to Ground News

EXPERIENCE