
Month: July 2025


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Twelve killed in Thailand-Cambodia military clashes on disputed border
BBC: Clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops at their disputed border have killed twelve people, Thai authorities say. The fighting marks an escalation of the dispute between the two South East Asian neighbours that dates back to more than a century. Most of the casualties were civilians and they were all from three Thai provinces, […]

India resumes visas for Chinese tourists amid thawing ties
BBC: India has resumed issuing tourist visas to Chinese nationals after a five-year gap as the two countries continue to explore ways to mend their strained relationship. The Indian embassy in Beijing made the announcement on Wednesday via the Chinese social media app Weibo, the state-owned Global Times newspaper reported. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the […]

Wreckage found after plane carrying 48 people goes down in Russian far east
BBC: Russian rescue services have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared about 16km (10 miles) from its destination in the far-eastern Amur region. The Angara airlines An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials […]

Australia to lift import ban on US beef after Trump tariffs tiff
BBC: Australia will lift restrictions on the import of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration. American beef has effectively been banned from the country – which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world – since 2003 after an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known […]

Gaza posts 15 new deaths from hunger, taking toll since Israel’s war to 101
Al Jazeera: At least 15 Palestinians, including four children, have starved to death in a single day in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to health officials, bringing the total number of deaths from malnutrition since Israel’s war began to 101. The announcement on Tuesday came as Israeli forces continued to pound Gaza, killing at least […]

The latest front line in the battle for Sudan
BBC: Sudan’s oil-rich Kordofan region has turned into a major front line in the war between the army and rival paramilitary forces, as both sides try to gain the upper-hand in a conflict that has devastated the vast African state for more than two years. Attacks that killed hundreds of civilians earlier this month have […]

Ukraine and Russia set for fresh peace talks, Zelensky says
BBC: Russia and Ukraine will hold a new round of peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “Today, I discussed with [Ukrainian Security Council chief] Rustem Umerov the preparations for a prisoner exchange and another meeting in Turkey with the Russian side,” Zelensky said in his daily address on Monday. […]

China begins building world’s largest dam, fuelling fears in India
BBC: Chinese authorities have begun constructing what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibetan territory, in a project that has sparked concerns from India and Bangladesh. Chinese Premier Li Qiang presided over a ceremony marking the start of construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo river on Saturday, according to local media. The river flows […]