BBC: This weekend, tensions boiled over in the Los Angeles area after a week of immigration sweeps in the region sparked violent protests against the Trump administration and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. President Donald Trump’s decision to send 700 US Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area to […]
BBC: Russia has launched a “massive” drone attack on the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, while a maternity ward in Odesa has also been targeted. The Odesa drone attack hit medical facilities and residential buildings, killing a 59-year-old man and injuring four, Governer Oleg Kiper said on Telegram. In the capital, emergency services […]
(Reuters) KYIV, June 9 – Russia hit Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the start of the war, causing some damage at a military airfield in the west of the country that was one of its main targets, the Ukrainian air force said on Monday. It was the latest in Russian onslaughts since Ukraine destroyed […]
BBC: A prisoner exchange is under way between Russia and Ukraine, governments in Moscow and Kyiv have confirmed. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold “in several stages” over the coming days, adding that the wounded, seriously wounded and soldiers under 25 were being returned. Writing on Telegram, Zelensky said: “The process is […]
BBC: Police in India say a woman, who had gone missing after her husband was found brutally murdered during their honeymoon, is in custody after she surrendered. The families of the couple had alleged that the bride had also either been killed or abducted and mounted a huge campaign to find her. Police now allege […]
BBC: Authorities have imposed a curfew and shut down the internet in parts of the troubled north-eastern Indian state of Manipur after protests erupted over the arrest of leaders from an ethnic group. On Sunday, police arrested five leaders of Arambai Tenggol, an armed Meitei radical group, including their chief Asem Kanan Singh. India’s top […]
(Reuters) June 9 – A Ukrainian drone strike, among the deepest into Russia in more than three years of the war, forced a temporary suspension of production at an electronics company in the Volga river region of Chuvashia, the head of the region said on Monday. The strike, some 1,300 km (800 miles) from the border […]
(Reuters) ERUSALEM/ASHDOD June 9 – Israeli naval forces boarded and seized a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of the war-torn Gaza Strip on Monday and the boat with its crew of 12, including activist Greta Thunberg, is now heading to a port in Israel. The British-flagged yacht, Madleen, which is […]
BBC: South Koreans are celebrating their first win in the Tony Awards, which they say highlights their country’s status as a cultural powerhouse. The acclaimed Broadway production of Maybe Happy Ending, which debuted in South Korea almost a decade ago, won six Tonys, including best musical. Maybe Happy Ending is about the romance between two […]
BBC: US President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen in Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. His border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday: “We are making Los Angeles safer.” The Californian city saw a second day of unrest on Saturday as residents of a predominantly Latino […]
