BBC: The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower. Now measuring 162.91 metres tall, the Spanish basilica has officially pipped the record from the Ulm Minster in Germany, which has held the crown since 1890. Designed […]
BBC: The Japanese government plans to recruit hunters to cull bears, as anxiety grows in the country over the rise a sharp rise in bear attacks. The environment ministry said on Thursday that it would set aside funds to hire licenced hunters and other personnel to tackle bears that have been wandering into residential areas […]
BBC: Fourteen current and former law-enforcement officers are among 20 defendants charged in Mississippi and Tennessee with accepting bribes from drug traffickers for police protection in what officials called “a monumental betrayal of public trust”. The arrests follow a years-long investigation by federal agents who posed as narcotics dealers. Two of the defendants were Mississippi […]
BBC: Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The troops, accompanied by drones and light armoured vehicles, entered Blida and stormed the town hall, where the employee – named as Ibrahim Salameh – was sleeping, […]
BBC: Tanzania’s government has ordered all civil servants to work from home following Wednesday’s elections that were marked by violence and internet disruption. Rights groups have urged restraint following reports of deaths and injuries on voting day, when protesters set fire to vehicles and damaged infrastructure. The protesters accused the government of undermining democracy, as […]
Reuters: GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct 30 – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that it was more important than ever to strengthen bilateral ties given how the countries had much in common under the current trade environment, Lee’s office said on Thursday. His comments came during a summit meeting […]
རོའི་ཊརཛ། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣༠ ལུ་ ཡུ་ཨེཛ་གི་སྲིད་འཛིན་ ཌོ་ནཱལ་ཊམ་གྱིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ གློ་ནད་སྨན་ཁུ་ ཕེན་ཊ་ནིལ་ཟེར་མི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་བཀག་ཐབས་ལུ་ བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་མི་དང་ ཡུ་ཨེཛ་ལས་ སྲནམ་ཅུང་ཉོ་སྲོལ་ འཕྲོ་རྒྱུན་མཐུད་མི་ དེ་ལས་ གཏེར་རྫས་དཀོན་དྲགས་ཚུ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་ནི་ལས་ བཀག་དམ་མ་འབད་བར་ བཞག་མི་ཚུ་གི་ཚབ་ལུ་ རྒྱ་ནག་གིས་ ཡུ་ཨེཛ་ལུ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་མི་ ཚོང་ཟོག་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཁྲལ་ཚད་མར་ཕབ་འབད་ནི་སྦེ་ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྲིད་འཛིན་ ཛི་ཇིན་པིང་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཞལ་འཆམས་བྱུང་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ གློག་རིག་སྒྲིག་བཀོད་ (PDF) ཐོག་ལུ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་དོན་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་དངུལ་ཁང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསར་ཤོག་གི་ རྩིས་ཁྲ་ཨང་ ༡༠༠༩༡༥༣༣༤ ཅན་མར་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ ༥༠༠ བཙུགས་གནང་སྟེ་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་གནང་ཟེར་ ཞུ་ནི་དང་། བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ […]
Reuters: SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Oct 30 – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he has given South Korea approval to build a nuclear-powered submarine, a dramatic move that would admit Seoul to a small club of nations possessing such vessels. The submarine will be built in a Philadelphia shipyard, where South Korean firms have increased investment, Trump wrote […]
Reuters: BUSAN, South Korea, Oct 30 – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed to reduce tariffs on China to 47% in exchange for Beijing resuming U.S. soybean purchases, keeping rare earths exports flowing and cracking down on the illicit trade of fentanyl. His remarks after face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in […]
BBC: Rob Jetten’s achievement in dragging his socially liberal D66 party from fifth place to the top of Dutch politics in less than two years has been extraordinary. But politically, all the stars were perfectly aligned for the 38-year-old to do so. The result of Wednesday’s election is too close to call, with Jetten vying […]