(Reuters) WASHINGTON/TAIPEI, Feb 17 – Taiwan is exploring buying arms worth billions of dollars from the United States, sources briefed on the matter said, hoping to win support from the new Trump administration as China continues to apply military pressure on the island. Three sources familiar with the situation, speaking to Reuters on condition of […]
BBC: One child and two adults have been critically injured after a plane crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson airport in Canada, according to emergency services. Images shared on social media show a plane which appears to have flipped over and is lying on its roof on the snow-covered tarmac. It appears to […]
BBC: The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC. Several hundreds of the agency’s probationary workers – who have generally been in their positions for less than a year – received […]
BBC: UK Special Forces command rejected resettlement applications from more than 2,000 Afghan commandos who had shown credible evidence of service in units that fought alongside the SAS and SBS, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time. UK Special Forces officers appear to have rejected every application from a former Afghan commando […]
BBC: Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the UK prime minister said securing a lasting peace in Ukraine was “essential if we are to deter Putin […]
BBC: At least nine people have died over the weekend, as torrential downpours drenched parts of the south-eastern US, submerging roads and houses. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said eight people died in his state and suggested at a news conference on Sunday that the total could go up. Hundreds of people stranded in flood waters, […]
BBC: More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday. The collapse took place near Kéniéba, in Mali’s western, gold-rich Kayes region. The victims had climbed into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth around them caved in, […]
Al Jazeera: More than 25 people were arrested following an attack on a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers that wounded two people including a senior commander. “More than 25 people have been arrested by Lebanese army intelligence”, with another person detained by the security services, Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar told reporters after an emergency […]
BBC: Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, in the latest swap under the ceasefire agreed by Israel and the militant group last month. The three hostages handed over on Saturday are American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Argentinian-Israeli Yair Horn, 46, and Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29. In return, 369 […]
BBC: Five men and a woman have been arrested in Dublin over the alleged abduction of a man in the city. More than 100 police searched several homes in the greater Blanchardstown area on Saturday morning. A house suspected of being the location where the man was held against his will has been sealed off […]