(Reuters) DHAKA, May 13 – Bangladesh’s Election Commission has suspended the registration of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League, effectively barring the party from contesting the next national elections. The move comes after the interim government of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, banned all activities of the Awami League under the Anti-Terrorism Act after days of […]
Reuters — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was almost certain to be elected mayor of his home city by a landslide on Monday, unimpeded by his detention at the International Criminal Court on charges of murder as a crime against humanity. With 80% of votes counted in an unofficial tally, Duterte, who was brought to The Hague in March over […]
BBC: Australia’s Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss. Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor – who ran on a promise to restore conservative values […]
BBC: The US and China have agreed a deal that will significantly cut the import tariffs they have imposed on each other, in a major de-escalation of their trade war. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both countries would lower their reciprocal tariffs by 115% for 90 days. The announcement came after the two countries […]
རོའི་ཊརཛ། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༥ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༢ ལུ་ ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ལོ་ ༡ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ དུས་ཚོད་རྫོགས་མི་ གོ་མཚོན་ཚུ་ བཀོ་བཞག་སར་ འགས་སོངཔ་ལས་ མི་གྲངས་ ༡༣ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག། དེ་སྦེ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ཚུ་ཡང་ ཞི་བའི་མི་སེར་ ༩ དང་ དམག་མི ༤ ཨིནམ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ གོ་མཚོན་ཚུ་ འགས་པ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ དམག་མིའི་འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། མ་གཞི་ དེ་བཟུམ་མའི་ འགས་རྫས་ཚུ་ དུས་རྒྱུན་བཀོ་སའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ བཀོ་བཞག་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་ འགས་རྫས་བཀོ་སའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ ཅ་ཆས་རྙིངམ་ཚུ་ བསྡུ་ལེན་འབད་བར་ འཛོམས་སྡོད་པའི་བར་ན་ འགས་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་བཀོད་ནུག། དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ ན་ཧིང་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༣ པའི་ནང་ ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡའི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཇ་ཀར་ཏའི་ […]
(Reuters) JAKARTA, May 12 – Thirteen people died in a blast during a disposal of expired military ammunition in Indonesia’s West Java on Monday, army officials told local media, the second incident involving expired ammunition in the country in little over a year. Nine of the victims were civilians while four were military personnel, military […]
(Reuters) JIUPENG, Taiwan, May 12 – Taiwan on Monday test-fired for the first time a new U.S.-supplied rocket system that has been widely used by Ukraine against Russia and could be deployed to hit targets in China if there is a war with Taiwan. The United States is Taiwan’s most important arms supplier, despite the […]
BBC: The White House is in discussions with the royal family of Qatar to possibly receive a luxury jumbo jet, intended for use as an Air Force One presidential plane. In a statement, Qatar denied that the plane would be a gift, but said the transfer of an aircraft for “temporary use” was under discussion […]
NDTV: India on Monday released videos showing the damage to Pakistani military air bases during Operation Sindoor, which was launched on May 7 to avenge the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam last month. Addressing a press conference, Air Marshal AK Bharti, the Director General of Air Operations, first showed the Nur Khan airbase in […]
(Reuters) May 12 – Myanmar’s shadow government said an airstrike by the ruling junta had killed at least 17 students and injured 20 others at a school in an opposition-controlled area on Monday, despite a ceasefire being in place after a devastating earthquake. The school, which is operated by the shadow National Unity Government, is […]
