BBC: Fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces continued early on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump said the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he told Trump a ceasefire would only be possible after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces and removed landmines. He wrote on social […]
བི་བི་སི། མཐའ་ཡས་ལེན་ལུ་ བདུན་ཕྲག་ ༡ དེ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ས་མཚམས་བདའ་སྟེ་ ཀམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཟིང་འཁྲུག་ལང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ཉིན་གྲངས་ ༤༥ ལས་ ༦༠ གི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་བཙག་འཐུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དེ་ ཆ་མེད་གཏང་ནི་ཨིན་པའི་ གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ 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་ཐོག་ལས་ 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་།
(Reuters) SEOUL, Dec 13 – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North’s KCNA news agency reported on Saturday. In a speech carried by KCNA, Kim praised officers and soldiers of the 528th Regiment of Engineers […]
BBC: US President Donald Trump has said the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will halt fighting “effective this evening”. Trump made the announcement after telephone conversations with the two leaders following deadly border clashes in recent days which have left at least 20 people dead and half a million displaced. Neither Thai PM Anutin […]
BBC: Warehouses supplying the vast majority of Ukraine’s pharmacies have been destroyed in a series of Russian attacks over recent months. Medical supplies worth about $200m (£145m) were destroyed in just two strikes in December and October. A large warehouse storing medicines in the city of Dnipro was destroyed in a Russian air strike on […]
BBC: A new Bollywood spy film is generating praise – and unease – in India and Pakistan for its contentious portrayal of the longstanding hostilities between the South Asian neighbours. Dhurandhar, which hit cinemas last week, plunges audiences into a high-octane world of espionage, gang wars and patriotic fervour. Anchored by Bollywood star Ranveer Singh’s […]
BBC: A large fire broke out on a Turkish car ferry anchored at the Ukrainian port city of Odesa after it was hit in a strike on Friday. The company that operates the Cenk T confirmed the attack occurred at 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT) shortly after it docked at the Chornomorsk port. Ukraine’s President […]
BBC: Wednesday afternoons have become a ritual for 15-year-old Sadmir Perviz. It’s a circuitous route from home in Perth to the Fiona Stanley Hospital – but it’s worth it, he says, to sit down for a game of Dungeons & Dragons with people he may not know but with whom he shares a great deal […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, Dec 12 – Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul confirmed on Friday that there was no ceasefire yet with Cambodia and said he had spoken by telephone with U.S. President Donald Trump and told him Bangkok was not the aggressor in the conflict with its neighbour. Anutin said Trump told him he wanted the two countries […]
(Reuters) KYIV, Dec 12 – A bulk carrier in Ukraine’s Odesa region suffered damage and was on fire after a Russian attack on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. One of the sources said the vessel was in the port of Chornomorsk, one of Odesa region’s three big Black Sea ports. Russia […]
