BBC: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin promised Russian soldiers a hero’s welcome when they return from Ukraine, but the BBC has found cases of servicemen robbed and scammed for their salaries and pay-offs by government officials. Since the invasion began in February 2022, President Putin has trebled the size of the Russian army, relying on financial […]
29 July 2025: The state funeral of Dasho Dorji Gyeltshen, Zimpon to His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, was held today. The Royal Bhutan Army presented a Guard of Honour, and funerary rites were overseen by the Je Khenpo. Zimpon Dasho Dorji Gyeltshen began serving His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo after joining the Royal […]
BBC: Thailand has accused Cambodia of “deliberately” violating a ceasefire the two countries had agreed on Monday to end border clashes that have killed at least 33 people and displaced thousands. It’s a shaky start for the ceasefire, which was meant to bring an end to five days of bombardment and rocket attacks along their […]
BBC: India’s defence ministry has rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim of ending its conflict with Pakistan in May, saying the country had not responded to pressure from anyone. Rajnath Singh was speaking at the opening of a parliamentary debate on the 22 April attack in Pahalgam, in Indian-administered Kashmir, which claimed the lives of […]
BBC: A New York City police officer is among four people killed in a shooting inside a Midtown Manhattan high-rise. Police said the gunman walked into the office building on Monday evening with an MR rifle in clear view before spraying bullets in the lobby and on an upper floor. He then took his own […]
BBC: Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” after five days of fighting at their border killed at least 33 people and displaced tens of thousands. “This is a vital first step to a de-escalation and a restoration of peace and security,” said Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, flanked by his […]
མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ། གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་ཟླཝ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ལུ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ མཚན་སློབ་སྐུ་བགྲེས་ སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༨༦ གི་ཐོག་ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུ་དབྱངས་ཅན་ཕུག་ སྒྲུབ་ཁང་ནང་སྦེ་ དགོངས་པ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ལུ་ཐིམས་པའི་ ཚུལ་སྟོན་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ སློབ་པོན་ཞིང་གཤགས་མཆོག་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༣༩ ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཅང་དགེ་བསྙེན་ཁར་ སྐུ་འཁྲུངས་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༧ ལུ་ བྱམས་མགོན་ངག་དབང་འཕྲིན་ལས་ཀྱི་ཞབས་སར་ དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པའི་འདུས་སྡེར་ འཛུལ་བཞུགས་མཛད་དེ་ གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ཆོས་སྤྱོད་སྒྲིག་ལམ་ཚུ་ལུ་ སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ དང་བླངས་མཛད་གནང་ནུག། དགུང་ལོ་ ༡༧ ལས་ ༤༦ ཚུན་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཞིང་གཤེགས་དམ་པ་ མཁས་དབང་དགེ་འདུན་རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གི་ ཕྱག་ཞུ་སྟེ་ སྤ་རོ་ཀུན་དགའ་གླིང་ཆོས་གླིང་དང་ ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྟ་མགོ་དང་ ཕ་ཇོ་སྡིངས་བཤད་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ སྐྱོར་དཔོན་མཛད་དེ་ བཞུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ལས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༨༥ དགུང་ལོ་ ༤༧ […]
BBC: Five people have been killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok, according to Thai officials. One other person has been injured in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market and the suspect is also dead. Police said officers are investigating the motive behind the attack in Thailand’s capital. Local media […]
BBC: Three people have been killed and several others seriously injured after an overflowing sewage shaft caused a passenger train to derail in south-west Germany, local authorities say. Prosecutors said the train crashed between Riedlingen and Munderkingen near Stuttgart on Sunday following heavy rain in the area. They said water was believed to have caused […]
BBC: Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the world-renowned Shaolin Temple, is being investigated by multiple agencies for embezzlement, “improper relationships with multiple women” and “fathering illegitimate children”, the temple said on Sunday. The 1,500-year-old Shaolin Temple, located in a mountain range in central China’s Henan province, attracts thousands of disciples every year – some from […]