BBC: Thousands of heavily armed police officers are patrolling the streets of Sydney as people mark the new year – a rare and stark sight in Australia, following the Bondi Beach mass shooting. Some officers were authorised to carry high-grade weapons as part of heightened security measures. The attack on 14 December targeted Australia’s Jewish […]
(Reuters) DHAKA, Dec 31 – A once-banned Bangladeshi Islamist party, poised for its strongest electoral showing in polls in February, is open to joining a unity government and has held talks with several parties, its chief told Reuters on Wednesday. Opinion polls suggest that Jamaat-e-Islami will finish a close second to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party […]
BBC: Guinea’s junta chief Gen Mamady Doumbouya has won the presidential election by a landslide, getting 86.7% of the vote, according to provisional results published by the election commission. The general is hoping to legitimise his rule after seizing power in a coup in 2021. A civil society group calling for the return of civilian […]
BBC: Thailand has released 18 Cambodian soldiers that were captured in July during deadly border clashes. The release was part of a deal signed on Saturday by both countries, where Thailand had agreed to the release if a truce held for 72 hours. But this was delayed by nearly a day after Thailand accused Cambodia […]
རང་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༡ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣༠ ལུ་ སྐྱབས་མགོན་བླ་མ་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གི་ འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་ལྟར་དུ་ རྡོར་གདན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐང་ གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ དཔལ་མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༧༠ བཞེས་པའི་ འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་སྟོན་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩོམ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དེ་ཡོད་མི་ ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་ ཆོས་སྡེ་ཁག་ལས་ བསྡུ་བསྒྲིགས་འབད་མི་ བསྟོད་རྩོམ་ཚུ་གི་དཔེ་དེབ་ བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་ རྡོར་གདན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐང་ གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི་སྤྱི་འཛིན་ མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་ ༣ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ འགོ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོད་པའི་ གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།
རང་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༩ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༨ ལས་ ཉིན་གྲངས་ ༣ གྱི་རིང་ལུ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྗེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ དགེ་སློང་ཞལ་གྲངས་ ༢༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཀུར་སྟོད་ཨའུ་མཚོ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་གླིང་ དགོན་འཛིན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནང་ དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ ཚོགས་འབུམ་གནང་མི་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣༠ ལུ་ གྲོལ་གནང་ཡོད་པའི་ གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།
Reuters: TAIPEI, Dec 31 – Taiwan remained on high alert on Wednesday after China staged massive military drills around the island the previous day, keeping its emergency maritime response centre running as it monitored Chinese naval manoeuvres, the coast guard said. The exercises named “Justice Mission 2025” saw China fire dozens of rockets towards Taiwan and deploy […]
ABC: GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into Monday during the holiday lull, police said. Some 2,700 bank customers were affected by the theft in Gelsenkirchen, police and the Sparkasse bank said. Thomas Nowaczyk, a police spokesperson, […]
CNN: Two trains taking tourists to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring around 30 passengers. The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told The Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the […]
BBC: Israel is to revoke the licenses of 37 aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, saying they failed to meet requirements under new registration rules. Well-known international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) such as ActionAid, the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council are among those that will have their licenses suspended […]