BBC: Both chambers of Congress agreed to order the US justice department to release its files on sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein. The House of Representatives overwhelming approved the measure in a 427-1 vote and the Senate unanimously fast-tracked it without a formal vote. The moves come just days after President Donald Trump reversed his […]
BBC: Vigils have been held for the five young people who died in a crash in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland at the weekend. Chloe McGee, 23, and Shay Duffy, 21, both from Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; Alan McCluskey, 23, from Drumconrath, County Meath; Dylan Commins, 23, from Ardee, County Louth, and Chloe Hipson, […]
BBC: At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli strike near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says. The Israeli military said it had targeted members of the Palestinian armed group Hamas “operating in a training compound… in the Ein el-Hilweh area”. It said the location was used […]
BBC: The bodies of a 34-year-old woman and her daughter, 10, have been found inside freezers in an apartment in western Austria. The remains of the Syrian woman and child, who had been missing for several months, were discovered on Friday. The freezers were hidden behind a drywall partition in the flat, located in the […]
BBC: Former Harvard University president Larry Summers has said he will step back from public commitments after his emails with disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public. “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognise the pain they have caused,” he said in a statement to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. Emails […]
BBC: Poland’s prime minister has said an explosion on a railway line leading to the Ukraine border this weekend was caused by “an unprecedented act of sabotage”, and vowed to catch those responsible “regardless of who their backers are”. Visiting the scene on Monday, Donald Tusk said the damage done to the railway tracks on […]
Reuters: DNIPRO, Ukraine, Nov 18 – Russian drones damaged a building housing the Dnipro newsroom of public broadcaster Suspilne and Ukrainian Radio Dnipro in a major overnight attack on the city, Suspilne said early on Tuesday. Vladyslav Haivanenko, the acting governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, of which Dnipro is the administrative centre, said on the Telegram […]
BBC: A woman has died and a man has been seriously injured after being attacked in Cork city. Gardaí (irish police) and emergency services were called to reports of an assault at a house at Shrewsbury Downs in Ballinlough at about 21:00 (local time) on Monday. Irish broadcaster RTÉ has reported the man and women […]
རོའི་ཊརཛ། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༨ ལུ་ ཏཱ་ཡེ་ཝཱན་གཞུང་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ གསང་ཞིབ་ཀྱི་ ལཱ་འབད་བའི་ དོགས་པ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ མི་ཁུངས་ ༡ འཛིན་བཟུང་འབད་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ སྒྲིག་གཡོག་ནང་ཡོད་མི་ དམག་མི་དང་ དགོངས་ཞུ་འབད་མི་ དམག་མི་ཚུ་གི་ གསང་བའི་བརྡ་དོན་ཚུ་ བསྡུ་ལེན་འབད་ཐབས་ལུ་ཨིནམ་ལས་ ཏཱ་ཡེ་ཝཱན་གཞུང་གིས་ མཚོ་གླིང་དེ་ནང་ གསང་ཞིབ་ཀྱི་ལཱ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་ཚུ་ བཀག་དམ་འབད་ནི་གི་ ཐབས་ཤེས་ཚུ་ སྟོན་དགོཔ་སྦེ་བཀོད་ནུག། དྲང་ཁྲིམས་ལྷན་ཁག་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་ཡིག་ཚང་ལས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ བཟའ་ཚང་གི་མིང་ ཌིང་ཟེར་མི་དེ་ ཧོང་ཀོང་ལུ་སྡོད་མི་ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ མི་ཁུངས་ཨིན་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁོ་གིས་ རྒྱ་ནག་དམག་སྡེའི་ བཀོད་བྱ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ གསང་བའི་བརྡ་དོན་ཚུ་ བསྡུ་ལེན་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་སྐོར་ལས་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་མ་ཚད་ ངོ་མིང་ཌིང་གིས་ དགོངས་ཞུ་འབད་མི་ དམག་མིའི་འགོ་དཔོན་ ༢ ཡང་ གསང་ཞིབ་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་ འཐུས་མི་གཙོ་བོ་སྦེ་ བསྐོ་བཞག་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་སྐོར་ལས་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས་ཟེར་ བཀོད་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
BBC: A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia is challenging a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the polarising, salty spread that has become a national symbol. State authorities say inmates may use the strong-smelling condiment to disguise contraband substances, or brew alcohol behind bars. But Andre McKechnie argues that the ban, in […]
