BBC: An Australian teenager has died after he was hit by a cricket ball during a practice session in Melbourne. Ben Austin, 17, was training in cricket nets in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday when he was struck in the head or neck by a ball from an automatic bowling machine. It’s believed he was wearing […]
BBC: The normal soundtrack that accompanies Jamaican life is silent this morning as many have woken to no electricity. About three-quarters of the island is without power and many parts of its western side are under water, with homes destroyed by strong winds after Hurricane Melissa tore across the island with catastrophic force. As wind […]
BBC: The US and South Korea have reached a broad trade deal, both countries have said following talks between their leaders. South Korea’s presidential aide, Kim Yong-beom, said the two sides will keep reciprocal tariffs at 15%, as was agreed earlier this year, but that the taxes on car and car parts would be lowered. […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༩ ལུ་ ཧ་མཱཛ་གིས་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ ཞི་བའི་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ལས་སྡེ་དང་ སྨན་ཁང་གི་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཨིཛ་རེལ་གྱིས་ མཁའ་དམག་ཐོག་ལས་ ག་ཟ་ལུ་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་མིའི་ནང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༡༠༤ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་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་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
BBC: More than 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency and hospitals say. The Israeli military said it struck “dozens of terror targets and terrorists” in response to violations by Hamas of the US-brokered ceasefire deal. Israel’s defence minister accused Hamas of […]
BBC: Authorities in Indian capital Delhi unsuccessfully carried out a cloud seeding trial, which is the science of altering clouds to make rains, to tackle the city’s worsening air pollution on Tuesday. Cloud seeding is done by firing small particles – usually silver iodide – into clouds to produce rain. The technique is used around […]
Reuters: NEW DELHI/DHAKA, Oct 29 – Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi. Hasina, 78, said she would not return to Bangladesh under any government […]
Reuters: HAVANA, Oct 29 – Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba early on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighbouring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation. Melissa hit the southern coast of eastern Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) […]
Reuters: GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct 29 – U.S. President Donald Trump began the final leg of his Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday, optimistic about advancing an unresolved tariff deal with President Lee Jae Myung and striking a trade war truce with China’s Xi Jinping. Arriving from Tokyo hours after North Korea test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile, Trump […]
Reuters: WARSAW, Oct 29 – Polish jets intercepted a Russian aircraft on Tuesday that was flying a reconnaissance mission in international airspace over the Baltic Sea without a filed flight plan and with its transponder turned off, the Polish army said on Wednesday. Countries on NATO’s eastern flank have been on high alert for potential […]