BBC: Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says she has warned Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood. Cooper was speaking to the BBC before attending a conference on Monday at the UN in New York where France and other European states are due to make […]
BBC: Flight disruption across Europe is set to continue, with Brussels airport in Belgium asking airlines to cancel nearly half of their flights on Monday. Several of Europe’s busiest airports have spent the past few days trying to restore normal operations, after a cyber-attack on Friday disrupted their automatic check-in and boarding software. Disruption had […]
BBC: Thousands have been evacuated in the Philippines as the nation braces for a super typhoon that has been described by regional authorities as potentially “catastrophic”. Super typhoon Ragasa, packing 230km/h (143mph) wind gusts, is forecast to make landfall over sparsely populated northern islands on Monday, before barrelling west towards southern China. Ragasa brings a […]
BBC: US President Donald Trump hailed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “great American hero” and “martyr” during a speech to tens of thousands of mourners at a memorial service in Arizona. Trump was the headline speaker at the packed event on Sunday, which saw top officials from his administration, including Vice-President JD Vance, […]
BBC: Australian officials have promised telecommunications giant Optus will face “significant consequences” over a systems outage linked to multiple deaths. The incident last week left hundreds of people across more than half of the country unable to call emergency services for 13 hours. Optus – one of the country’s two major providers – says at […]
Starting Monday, the daily economic burdens of millions of Indians could ease slightly. Staples like milk and bread, life and medical insurance and life-saving drugs will become tax-free. Consumption tax on small cars, television sets and air conditioners will drop from 28% to 18%. And other common goods like hair oil, toilet soap and shampoo […]
BBC: Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state, in what represents a significant change in government policy. In a video statement on X, the prime minister said “in the face of the growing horror in the Middle East we are acting to keep alive the possibility of peace and a […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, Sept 21 – Russian Colonel General Alexander Lapin, a senior commander who served in the first phase of the Ukraine war, has been dismissed from military service, Russian media outlet RBC reported on Sunday, citing an unidentified source. Lapin, 61, will be appointed as an aide of Tatarstan’s head, responsible for support for […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, Sept 21 – Two civilians were killed and four injured in Russia’s Belgorod region in Ukrainian attacks, the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram on Sunday. One woman died when a shell hit a private house in the settlement of Shebekino and one man was killed in a drone attack on Rakitnoe, […]
Reuters: Sept 21 – A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak from the pandemic’s epicentre was sentenced on Friday to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said. Zhang Zhan, 42, was sentenced on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in China, the […]