Richard Lloyd Parry
The Times of London
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Jungle hostage pilot located four weeks after guerrilla kidnap
Until their violent coming together a month ago Phillip Mehrtens and Egianus Kogoya had nothing in common. One is a commercial pilot, a 37-year-old husband and → Read More
Zelensky declares war on an enemy within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
The raid began at dawn and went on all day. Church services were interrupted as soldiers and security agents spread across the vast territory of the ancient mon → Read More
Battle for tiny outcrop could decide who wins Russia-Ukraine war
By day, the Kinburn Spit is little more than a dark, low bar across the grey water — it is night that reveals the fierce battle being fought over the peninsula → Read More
Victims had no chance to escape Seoul crush
When she first saw them from the upper windows of a Seoul nightclub, Nicole Hammond assumed the people lying on the street were performers in an elaborately sta → Read More
Tiny Taiwan can outfight Chinese ‘at close range’
On maps and in satellite photographs, the island of Taiwan resembles a plump shrimp beneath the belly of an immense whale. Compared with China, which claims it → Read More
Thailand shooting: 30 killed by ex-policeman in nursery gun attack
More than 30 people have been killed in a shooting at a nursery in northern Thailand, according to police. → Read More
Japan warns citizens to take cover after North Korea fires missile over country
Japan reacted with anger after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile high over the north of the country this morning, prompting the suspension of trains → Read More
Taiwan billionaire Robert Tsao pays to build army of citizen snipers
Before his change of mind, Robert Tsao spent hundreds of millions of dollars and years of his life trying to see the best in the Chinese Communist Party. The Taiwanese billionaire who founded one of the island’s biggest semiconductor producers tried to use business to heal the bitter divisions betwe → Read More
Queen’s funeral: Joe Biden caught officials off guard with plan to attend
President Biden caught the White House off guard on Friday when he told reporters he planned to travel to London for the Queen’s funeral → Read More
Nuclear power’s sorry salesman laments its comeback in Japan
For a long time, Yuji Onuma was stricken with guilt about the notorious words that used to hang above his home town. He was a 12-year-old schoolboy in the smal → Read More
Security was startlingly lax around my neighbour, Shinzo Abe
It always seemed terribly wrong that, for five years, I was allowed to be Shinzo Abe’s next door neighbour. The Japanese prime minister’s official residence is → Read More
Imelda Marcos watches son ‘Bongbong’ sworn in as president of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos Jr was sworn in as the president of the Philippines today, marking the return of one of Asia’s most notorious political families 36 years after → Read More
South Korea lied about murder by North to appease Kim, says family
North Koreans shot Lee Dae-jun at a sensitive stage of diplomacy → Read More
War leaves its brutal mark on Ukraine’s vulnerable young minds
Ever since they emerged from the basement where they hid from the Russians, Sergiy Solomenko’s boys have never been quite the same. They spent weeks down there, during the violent battle that raged in Makariv, the small town where they live in northern Ukraine, and the brutal occupation that followe → Read More
Cancer and strokes won’t stop them defending Ukraine
Invalids are among the frontline fighters serving the Territorial Defence Forces → Read More
A mother’s anguish for her son missing in Ukraine as another shallow grave is found in the woods
Nina Semenets got a terrible feeling when she saw the scene at the edge of the forest. She was driving her granddaughter to their home in the village of Kolonsh → Read More
Russian grain theft from Ukraine threatens another famine
Russian forces are stealing huge amounts of grain from areas of Ukraine under their control, in what Ukrainian authorities have denounced as “food terrorism” re → Read More
The shooting started and I tried to sign: Down! Get down!
The hundred thousand people trapped in the broken city of Mariupol are all victims of war, but few are more vulnerable than Oksana Lysenko and Vladyslav Zrashba → Read More
Mariupol civilians evacuated from the horrors of besieged steel plant
More than a hundred women and children have been evacuated from the besieged steel plant in the city of Mariupol, where 2,000 Ukrainian troops and hundreds of civilians are trapped after more than two months of war.President Zelensky confirmed on social media that a second round of evacuations had b → Read More
First civilians evacuated from Mariupol steelworks after ceasefire agreed
A small group of women and children have been evacuated from the steel plant in the city of Mariupol where Ukrainian troops and hundreds of civilians are trapp → Read More