BBC: US President Donald Trump has signed an order doubling tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from 25% to 50%. The move hikes import taxes on the metals – key inputs in everything from cars to canned food – for the second time since March. Trump has said the measures, which come into effect on […]
BBC: South Korea has handed a decisive victory to opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung six months after his predecessor’s martial law bid failed. The brief yet disastrous move set off huge protests and ended former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s career: impeached and removed from office, he still faces criminal charges for abusing his power. But the […]
BBC: The Dutch government has collapsed after Geert Wilders withdrew his far-right party from the governing coalition, less than a year after it was formed. Prime Minister Dick Schoof confirmed he was stepping down on Tuesday, and is expected to offer the resignation of the cabinet to King Willem-Alexander before the end of the day. […]
BBC: Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it has managed to strike the Crimea bridge with underwater explosives following an operation lasting “several months”. The SBU said its agents had “mined the supports” of the bridge with 1,100kg of explosives which “severely damaged” the bottom level of the supports. The “first explosive device” was activated early […]
ABC: DENPASAR, Indonesia — Three British nationals accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram (over two pounds) of cocaine into Indonesia were charged Tuesday in a court on the tourist island of Bali. They face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad. Jonathan Christopher […]
BBC: More than 200 prisoners escaped from a jail in Pakistan’s largest city following an earthquake in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Thousands of inmates broke down doors and the locks of their cells and shattered windows after they felt tremors shake the walls at Malir Jail in Karachi. Of those who escaped […]
BBC: At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they attempted to collect aid near a distribution site in Gaza, local officials say. Civilians were fired upon by tanks, quadcopter drones, and helicopters near the al-Alam roundabout, about 1km (0.6 miles) from the aid distribution centre, a spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil […]
ཨེ་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣ ལུ་ ར་ཤི་ཡ་གིས་ ཡུ་ཀེ་རེན་གྱི་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ནང་ ས་ཐག་རིང་ས་ལས་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་ཏེ་ མི་ ༧ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ ༢༧ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག།དེ་ཡང་ ཡུ་ཀེ་རེན་གྱི་ མཁའ་དམག་བདག་སྐྱོང་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ར་ཤི་ཡ་གིས་ ནུབམོ་ཅིག་ལུ་ མཁའ་དམག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཌཱོན་ ༡༡༢ དེ་ཅིག་ བཏང་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ས་གནས་ ༡༡ གི་ནང་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོད་རུང་ ཌཱོན་ ༧༥ དེ་ཅིག་ ཕབ་བཏང་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ཚུ་ཡང་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ཡུ་ཀེ་རེན་གྱི་ བྱང་ཤར་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ ༢ ཀྱི་ནང་ བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ སུ་མི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཡང་ ར་ཤི་ཡའི་ མཁའ་དམག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཌཱོན་གྱིས་ མི་ ༣ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ ༢༠ ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ དབང་འཛིན་ཚུ་གིས་ གསལ་བཤད་འབད་ནུག།དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ […]
BBC: Mongolian prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene has resigned after losing a confidence vote in parliament. The vote followed days of mass protests over corruption allegations – fuelled by social media posts about his son’s lavish birthday party and engagement. Oyun-Erdene, who took office in 2021, will remain as caretaker PM until a successor is appointed […]
BBC: At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average. Going into labour during a doctors’ strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was no expert help on hand once a complication emerged. Her baby’s […]
