(Reuters) SEOUL, May 27 – South Korea’s liberal frontrunner for president Lee Jae-myung was leading his main conservative rival Kim Moon-soo by more than 10 percentage points in an opinion poll issued on Tuesday, though the race had tightened a week ahead of the election. The deeply polarised country holds a snap election on June […]
(Reuters) NEW DELHI, May 27 – India’s defence minister has approved a framework for building the country’s most advanced stealth fighter jet, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, amid a new arms race with Pakistan weeks after a military conflict between the neighbours. Indian state-run Aeronautical Development Agency, which is executing the programme, will shortly invite initial […]
ABC: A woman who turned 21 on the day of Australia’s federal election in May has been declared the nation’s youngest ever senator. And like many female candidates who run for election in Australia, Charlotte Walker wasn’t expected to win. The former union official won the governing center-left Labor Party’s third Senate seat for South Australia state in a […]
BBC: Nepali sherpa Kami Rita, also known as “Everest Man”, has scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time, breaking his own record for the most climbs up the world’s tallest peak. The 55-year-old, who was guiding a group of Indian army officials up the mountain, reached its 8,894m summit at 04:00 local time on Tuesday […]
BBC: The Kremlin claimed Donald Trump was showing signs of “emotional overload” after he called Vladimir Putin “absolutely crazy” following Moscow’s largest aerial assault on Ukraine. The US president said on Truth Social on Sunday that “something has happened” to Putin, after Russia killed 13 in Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles. “He has gone […]
BBC: The head of an organisation set up to distribute aid in Gaza as part of a controversial Israel-backed plan has resigned, saying it could not work in a way that adhered to “humanitarian principles”. Jake Wood quit the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) late on Sunday, saying it would not be able to fulfil the […]
(Reuters) KYIV, May 26 – Ukraine has confirmed information that China is supplying a range of important products to Russian military plants, the chief of Ukrainian foreign intelligence was quoted on Monday as saying. “There is information that China supplies tooling machines, special chemical products, gunpowder, and components specifically to defence manufacturing industries,” Oleh Ivashchenko […]
(Reuters) GENEVA, May 26 – The Palestinian delegation won the right to fly their flag at the World Health Organization after a symbolic victory in a vote on Monday that its envoy hopes will lead to greater recognition within the United Nations and beyond. The proposal, brought by China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and others, at […]
BBC: Authorities in India’s southern Kerala state have issued an alert after a ship carrying oil and hazardous cargo leaked and sank off the state’s coast in the Arabian Sea. The spill occurred in a Liberian-flagged vessel that capsized near Kochi city on Sunday. The coastal stretch is rich in biodiversity and is also an […]
བི་བིསི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༥ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ལུ་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཨིཛ་རེལ་གྱིས་ མཁའ་དམག་ཐོག་ལས་ ག་ཟའི་ས་གནས་ཁག་ ༢ ཀྱི་ནང་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ པེ་ལེཛ་ཊིན་གྱི་ མི་སེར་ ༢༤ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ ག་ཟ་ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཡོད་མི་ ཕཱ་མི་ཨཱལ་ ཇར་ག་ཝི་ སློབ་གྲྭའི་ནང་ སྤོ་བཤུད་འབད་དེ་བཞག་མི་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་བ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཨ་ལོ་ཚུ་གིས་གཙོས་པའི་ མི་སེར་ ༢༠ གི་ ཕུངམོ་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་བཀོད་ནུག། ཨིཛ་རེལ་གྱི་ དམག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཧ་མཱཛ་དང་ ཨིཛ་ལ་མིག་ ཇི་ཧཱད་དང་ དམ་འཛིན་ལྟེ་བ་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ ས་གནས་དེ་ གཡིབ་དམག་ཚུ་གིས་ ཨིཛ་རེ་ལ་གྱི་ ཞི་བའི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནོདཔ་བཀལ་ནི་གི་དོན་ལས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མས་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ སྙན་ཞུ་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ཚུ་གི་གྲས་ཁར་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ག་ཟ་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་ ཧ་མཱཛ་ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེའི་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ མོ་ཧཱ་མཱད་ ཨཱལ་ཀ་སི་དང་ ཁོ་གི་ཨམ་སྲུ་དང་ […]