News in Brief(2024-03-26)

FE Team | Published: March 25, 2024 23:06:13

Myanmar's next election may not
be nationwide, Junta chief says
YANGON, Mar 25: Military-ruled Myanmar plans to have an election if there is peace and stability in the country but may not be able to hold it nationwide, its top general said, as the junta battles to contain a rebellion on multiple fronts. The military, which has been in power since a coup three years ago, still planned to return the country to democratic rule, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing told Russia's Tass news agency, according to a transcript of an interview carried by Myanmar's state media. — Reuters
New Zealand's glaciers shrinking faster
WELLINGTON, Mar 25: New Zealand's glaciers are shrinking as ice melts at an accelerating rate, a top government scientist warned Monday after concluding a monitoring expedition in the country's Southern Alps. The country's climate institute conducts a yearly aerial "snowline survey", which helps to chart how much ice the nation's glaciers have lost. — AFP
Kim inspects 'Seoul' tank unit
SEOUL, Mar 25: North Korea's Kim Jong Un inspected a tank unit which once invaded Seoul during the Korean War, state media reported Monday, with Pyongyang's leader calling for ever greater preparations for combat. Inter-Korean relations are at one of their lowest points in years, with Kim's military recently conducting a string of banned weapons tests, including launching a ballistic missile and staging a ground test of a "new type" of hypersonic missile engine. — AFP
13 killed in Philippine road crash
MANILA, Mar 25: At least 13 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Monday after a collision between a dump truck loaded with sand and a passenger van, local authorities said. The incident happened in the afternoon on a major road in Antipas municipality in North Cotabato province on the second-largest island of Mindanao. —-AFP
Nine missing after Indonesia landslide
JAKARTA, Mar 25: At least nine Indonesians were reported missing overnight and more than 200 were evacuated after a landslide and flooding hit their village on Java island, an official said Monday. — AFP