BBC: Ghana’s President John Mahama has fired the country’s Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo following a recommendation by an inquiry. She had been on suspension since April after complaints were lodged against her in petitions by three individuals, with the president setting up a five-member committee to investigate. The commission found that “grounds of stated misbehaviour… had been […]
BBC: Monday’s meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi marked a rare display of solidarity – and an opportunity for Putin to engage directly with his country’s top oil buyers. India and China were drawn to Russian oil, which became cheaper after Western countries cut trade ties with Moscow over […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༩ པའི་ཚེས་ ༩ ལུ་ སུ་དཱན་གྱི་ ངོ་རྒོལ་སྡེ་ཚན་ རང་དབང་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སུ་དཱན་གྱི་ ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་ མར་ར་གངས་རིའི་ནང་ ས་རུད་ཆད་དེ་ མི་སེར་ ༡,༠༠༠ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣༡ ལུ་ ཆརཔ་ཤུགས་སྦེ་ རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ས་རུད་ཆད་པའི་ རྐྱེན་ངན་ནང་ ཏཱ་ར་སིན་ གཡུས་ཚན་གྱི་ མི་སེར་ཕུག་རྡོག་ ༡ མ་གཏོགས་ གཞན་མི་ཚུ་ག་ར་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོད་པའི་ གསལ་བཤད་འབད་ནུག། དེ་འབདཝ་ལས་ རང་དབང་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འཛམ་གླིང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འདུས་ཚོགས་ཚུ་ལས་ མི་སྡེའི་གྲོགས་རམ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ཞུ་བ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་སྦེ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ཚུ་ཡང་ སུ་དཱན་གྱི་ དྲག་པོའི་དམག་སྡེ་དང་ ཞི་བའི་དམག་སྡེ་གིས་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་མི་ དམག་སྡེའི་བར་ན་ དམག་འཁྲུག་ལང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཌར་ཕུར་མངའ་སྡེ་ལས་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་ རང་སོའི་གཡུས་སྤངས་ཏེ་ […]
BBC: Rescuers on helicopters are searching the ruins of remote villages in eastern Afghanistan for survivors of a powerful earthquake that has killed 800 people and injured 1,800 others. Many are feared trapped under the rubble of their homes after the magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck on Sunday near the country’s border with Pakistan. Authorities searched […]
BBC: The stage is set in the heart of Beijing for a grand display of power and military might that has been choreographed by President Xi Jinping. Eight huge Chinese flags flutter and flank the portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, which sits on top of the Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking […]
BBC: Thousands of commuters in one of India’s wealthiest suburbs were stuck on roads for six to eight hours due to rain-triggered traffic gridlock on Monday. The incident has sparked outrage online, with many questioning how a place like Gurugram – known for its futuristic skyscrapers and sprawling corporate offices – could have such poor […]
BBC: A flotilla of boats headed for Gaza carrying 350 pro-Palestinian activists – including climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg – has departed from Barcelona. Around 20 vessels displaying Palestinian flags left the Spanish port at 19:00 local time on Monday, stocked with medical and food supplies. The flotilla first attempted to set sail on Sunday, […]
BBC: A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, according to the rebel group The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on Sunday, which left just one survivor and “levelled” much of the village of Tarasin, the group said in a statement. The […]
BBC: Survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 800 people and injured thousands in eastern Afghanistan have spent a night in the open, as rescue efforts continue. Most of the deaths occurred in the mountainous Kunar province, which was closest to the epicentre of the 6.0 magnitude when it struck on Sunday night. Officials […]
BBC: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of 11 UN staff arrested by Houthi authorities in Yemen. The workers were detained by security forces in raids on the World Food Programme (WFP), children’s charity Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO), news agencies and the UN said. Sunday’s […]