BBC: US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison without parole. The three excluded from the measure include the Boston Marathon bomber and the man who killed Jewish worshippers in 2018. In a statement, Biden said he was “more […]
BBC: Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones at Israel. Haniyeh was killed in […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, Dec 23 (Reuters) – South Korea’s military said on Monday that it has detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. North Korea has already provided 240mm multiple rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzers, and was seen preparing […]
(Reuters) TAIPEI, Dec 23 – Taiwan’s cabinet warned on Monday the island’s security might be at risk after opposition parties passed laws that will require cuts in government spending, including defence, at a time when China has ramped up military activity nearby. Taiwan’s opposition parties, which hold a majority in parliament, last week passed legislation […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, Dec 23 – South Korea’s main opposition party threatened on Monday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo if he failed to proclaim a law to launch a special counsel investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed bid to impose martial law. Prime Minister Han has taken over from the suspended Yoon, who was impeached on Dec. 14 […]
BBC: A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train in Brooklyn. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the incident on Sunday as “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being”. She said […]
BBC: Ten members of a family have died after a private plane crashed into the city of Gramado in southern Brazil. Brazilian businessman Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, who was piloting the plane, was killed in the crash alongside his wife, three daughters and other family members, a statement from his company said. The small plane reportedly […]
སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་གི་ཞབས་ལས་ དྲགོས་ཀརྨ་ལྷ་མོ་དེ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་གཞུང་ཚབ་སྦེ་ བསྐོ་བཞག་ཐོག་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་ལེགས་དར་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ མཁའ་འགྲུལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་མདོ་ཆེན་ ཀརྨ་དབང་ཕྱུག་དེ་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་དང་ སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ དྲུང་ཆེན་དང་ རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཞུང་སྐྱོང་དང་ ཐབས་རིག་སྤེལ་ཁང་གི་མདོ་ཆེན་ ཚེ་དབང་རིག་འཛིན་དེ་ རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེའི་ གཙོ་འཛིན་འོགམ་སྦེ་ གསར་བསྐོས་ཐོག་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་ལེགས་དར་ གནང་ཡོད་པའི་ གནས་ཚུལ་མོར་བསྡུས།