Apple just lost a key designer– many are happy to see him go

Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the Cupertino, California-based company. While losing key executive talent is usually bad news for a company, some industry voices have welcomed the news of Dye’s departure. “Dye’s decadelong stint running Apple’s software design team has been, on the whole, terrible – and rather than getting better, the problems...

Another Thai soldier feared dead, raising possible death toll in Cambodia border clashes to two

BANGKOK: The Royal Thai Army (RTA) has confirmed one soldier has been killed and reports a second is feared dead in clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border. In addition to the potential two fatalities, eight other Thai soldiers have been wounded in the attacks. The casualties resulted from what the RTA described as prepared Cambodian military operations involving...

Trump ‘garbage’ rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics

(This story contains language some readers may find offensive) WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - During a closed-door White House meeting in his first term, President Donald Trump demanded to know why the U.S. was accepting immigrants from “shithole countries” like Haiti and some African nations, remarks widely reported at the time by Reuters and other media...

‘We’ve lost everything’: How floods devastated one of Thailand’s largest cities

HAT YAI, Thailand (Reuters) -When Jantarakarn Kaewjan went to bed in Thailand's southern city of Hat Yai last Friday, three days of heavy rains had only caused some waterlogging in the street outside her apartment building. But a little past midnight, the rising waters reached her building, forcing her to move her motorcycle from the parking...

Man suspected of killing National Guard member to face murder charges, US attorney says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice is upgrading charges for the Afghan man suspected of shooting and killing a National Guard member and wounding another to first degree murder, U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro said on Friday. The comments were made on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program. Pirro said a day earlier that...

German travel agency Dertour records US slump as politics hits demand

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Dertour, Germany's leading provider of tours in North America, has recorded a double-digit percentage slump in bookings to the United States since President Donald Trump took office and does not expect demand to recover, said the firm's Germany head. "Unfortunately, this trend is continuing," said Boris Raoul, CEO of Dertour Germany. "The current political...

NATO scrambles jets after deepest drone breach yet into Romania

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanian and German NATO fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday near Romania's border with Ukraine to respond to a drone incursion that penetrated deeper than ever into Romanian airspace, in what Bucharest called a Russian provocation. Defence Minister Ionut Mosteanu said the NATO pilots came close to shooting down a drone which had repeatedly...

Exclusive-US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal – sources

KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said. Washington has presented Ukraine with a 28-point plan, which endorses some of Russia's principal demands in the war, including that...

Cambodian health clinic owner jailed for five years over fatal injection, dumping of patient’s body

PHNOM PENH: The owner of Songhak Marina Maternity and Treatment Clinic, who administered a fatal injection to a patient last year and subsequently dumped the victim’s body, has been sentenced by to 5 years in prison, while her husband received a one-year sentence. On November 17, the Takeo Provincial Court sentenced Sun Marina, 39, to a...

Japan counts cost of China’s travel boycott as tensions flare

TOKYO: Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a diplomatic dispute, Tokyo-based tour operator East Japan International Travel Service had lost 80% of its bookings for the remainder of the year. The small firm, which specialises in group tours largely for Chinese clients, is at the sharp end of...