BBC: Relentless rains and floods have killed at least 41 people in central Vietnam since the weekend, while a search continues for nine still missing, state media reported. The deluge has submerged more than 52,000 homes and left half a million households and businesses without power, according to reports. Rainfall exceeded 1.5m (5ft) in several […]
BBC: At this year’s UN climate summit (COP30), under way in Brazil’s Belem city, all eyes are on India – the world’s third largest carbon emitter. India has not yet submitted a key climate plan that countries are required to do every five years, even as international assessments have deemed India’s climate action as being […]
BBC: From 10 December, social media companies will have to take “reasonable steps” to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated or removed. The government says the ban – a world-first policy popular with many parents – is aimed at reducing the “pressures and […]
BBC: South African women’s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become commonplace. The campaign began with a viral social media movement and will culminate in a nationwide “shutdown” on Friday, ahead of the G20 Summit […]
ABC: PRAGUE — An express train collided with another passenger train in the southern Czech Republic on Thursday, injuring dozens of people, officials said. The accident took place near the city of Ceske Budejovice at around 6:20 a.m. Two people were seriously injured while about 40 suffered light injuries, the regional rescue service said. The traffic […]
ABC: ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces raided two Pakistani Taliban hideouts in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border, triggering intense shootouts that left 23 militants dead, the military said Thursday. There were no details on any casualties among the military. The raids took place on Wednesday in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a […]
ABC: DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for national elections but said it won’t apply to the polls being held early next year. The caretaker system was introduced in 1996 and widely accepted by Bangladesh’s people and by international observers as a step toward election fairness in the a […]
ABC: LONDON — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and ground-based air defense systems put on the highest level of alert in Poland and Romania during a massive and deadly overnight Russian attack on targets across Ukraine, military officials in Warsaw and Bucharest said. One drone was reported penetrating some 5 miles into Romanian airspace before being […]
BBC: Days after recording a landslide victory in India’s Bihar state, Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar has taken oath as chief minister. Kumar’s party and its allies, which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won 202 out of 243 seats in the recently-held polls. Kumar, 74, one of the state’s most influential political […]
BBC: Arrests have been made after a ferry ran aground on rocks off South Korea’s south-east coast, according to media reports. All 267 passengers and crew on board the Queen Jenuvia 2 were rescued after it ended up stuck near the uninhabited island of Jogdo, off the coast of Jangsan Island in Sinan County, on […]
