Day: July 15, 2023

The U.S., South Korea and Japan held a joint naval missile defense exercise on Sunday to counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats, the South’s navy said, days after the North launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korea fired its latest Hwasong-18 missile, which Pyongyang describes as the core of its nuclear strike force, off the east coast on Wednesday in what it said was a “strong practical warning” to the adversaries. Sunday’s trilateral drill was conducted in international waters between South Korea and Japan, bringing together destroyers equipped…

Tens of millions were battling dangerously high temperatures in the United States on Saturday as record heat forecasts hung over Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the threat from climate change. A powerful heat wave stretching from California to Texas was expected to peak as the National Weather Service warned of an “extremely hot and dangerous weekend.” Daytime highs were forecast to range between 10- and 20-degrees Fahrenheit above normal in the U.S. Southwest. In Arizona, one of the hardest-hit states, residents face a daily endurance marathon against…

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA —  Cambodians head to the polls this month in an election that has been widely criticized by Western countries, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and pro-democracy activists, but authorities in Phnom Penh insist the ballot on July 23 will be free and fair. On the campaign trail, Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed his many critics and says he will run on his record. That includes his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, what he argues was a successful year chairing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations last…