BBC: About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been freed, authorities say. Niger state’s police chief, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, and Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, who is in charge of the school as the local leader of the Catholic community, both told the BBC that they had […]
BBC: Residents on both sides of Thailand’s and Cambodia’s border evacuated in droves on Monday as fresh clashes erupted, killing at least five people. Both sides have each accused the other of starting the violence, which is the most serious confrontation between the two countries since they agreed to a ceasefire in July. Thailand’s Prime […]
Press Release: The Prime Minister attended the inaugural ceremony of the Gelephu–Kolkata route today at the Gelephu International Airport, marking a historic milestone as the airport’s first international flight departed for Kolkata. Operated by Drukair, the new route positions Gelephu as Bhutan’s newest international aviation gateway, enhancing regional connectivity for investors, visitors, and travellers while […]
ABC: JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian officials said on Monday that two Dutch nationals imprisoned in Indonesia on drug trafficking convictions will be repatriated to the Netherlands later in the day following the agreement between the two countries. The two prisoners, including one who had been sentenced to death, were handed over by the Indonesian authorities to Dutch […]
ABC: ISTANBUL — A police officer died Monday after being shot and seriously wounded during an early morning drug raid in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Officer Emre Albayrak died of his wounds in a hospital. He was part of a special operations team carrying out the raid in the Cekmekoy district on Istanbul’s Asian side. “Our […]
ABC: TEHRAN, Iran — A second flight carrying Iranians deported from the United States has left America, Iranian officials said, as Washington reportedly planned to send hundreds of prisoners back to the Islamic Republic. The deportations come as tensions remain high between Iran and the U.S. after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites during Tehran’s 12-day war with […]
ABC: BANGKOK — Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as both sides accused the other of breaking a ceasefire that halted fighting earlier this year. Longstanding border disputes erupted into five days of combat in July that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians. U.S. President Donald Trump pushed the Southeast Asian neighbors to […]
BBC: A court in the southern Indian state of Kerala has acquitted Malayalam superstar Dileep in the case of abduction and rape of a leading actress. The trial court convicted six others in the case but cleared Dileep who was accused of criminal conspiracy in the case to kidnap and assault the woman. The actress, […]
རོའི་ཊརཛ། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༨ ལུ་ དྲོ་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༥ དེ་ཅིག་ལས་ མཐའ་ཡས་ལེན་དང་ ཀམ་པོ་ཌི་ཡའི་བར་ན་ རྩོད་རྙོག་ཅན་གྱི་ ས་མཚས་ཁར་ ས་གནས་ཁག་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ནང་ མཐའ་ཡས་ལེན་གྱིས་ མཁའ་དམག་ཐོག་ལས་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་བསྒང་ མཐའ་ཡས་ལེན་གྱི་ དམག་མི་ ༡ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་པའི་ཁར་ གཞན་མི་ ༨ ལུ་ཡང་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
ABC: MELBOURNE, Australia — A firefighter has died battling blazes that have destroyed around 40 homes in two Australian states, officials said Monday. The 59-year-old man was struck by a falling tree Sunday night while fighting a wildfire near the New South Wales town of Bulahdelah that had razed 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of woodlands and destroyed four […]
