BBC: At least 13 people have died and 98 were injured after a train derailed in Mexico on Sunday, according to the Mexican Navy. There were 250 people on board. The derailment occurred in Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca, on the train’s main line between Veracruz and Salina Cruz. In a statement, the navy said that 36 […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༨ ཀྱི་ཕྱི་རོ་ ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ ཆུ་ཚོད་ཕྱེད་དང་ ༩ དེ་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ སུ་ལུ་ཝི་སི་ མངའ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་ས་ མ་ན་ཌོ་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཡོད་མི་ དཱ་མའི་དགོངས་ཞུ་སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལུ་ མེ་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་གྲངས་ ༡༦ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག། དེ་སྦེ་ མེ་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ སྒྲིང་ཁྱིམ་དེ་ནང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་ནང་ལས་ དགོངས་ཞུ་འབད་མི་ རྒན་རྒས་ཚུ་ སྡོད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ མེ་རྐྱེན་དེ་གི་ བྱུང་རྐྱེན་སྐོར་ལས་ ཧ་མ་གོ་བར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས་ཟེར་ བཀོད་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
BBC: Sixteen people have been killed and three left injured after a fire tore through a nursing home for elderly residents in northern Indonesia, local authorities say. The fire department was alerted to a fire at Damai retirement home in the city of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, on Sunday night at around […]
BBC: China is holding military drills around Taiwan simulating the seizure and blockade of the island’s key areas, as a warning against “separatist forces”. The army, navy, air force and rocket force have been dispatched for the drills which include live-fire exercises, the Chinese military said. Codenamed “Justice Mission 2025”, the drills are taking place […]
BBC: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky said progress had been made to end the Ukraine war during Florida talks but the US president admitted the problem of territory remained “unresolved”. While both the US and Ukrainian presidents described the talks as “great”, Trump said “one or two very thorny issues” remained outstanding – most notably […]
BBC: “Want the royal charm of Jaipur? Don’t come here, just buy a postcard,” a local taxi driver quipped during my recent visit to the north-western Indian city. I had asked him why Rajasthan’s amber-hued capital – thriving with tourists drawn to its opulent palaces and majestic forts – looked so ramshackle. His answer reflected […]
BBC: One person has died and another suffered critical injuries after two helicopters collided mid-air on Sunday above a city in New Jersey, local police said. The Hammonton Police Department reported that one of the helicopters was engulfed in flames by the time it crash landed on the ground, and emergency services were working to […]
ANC: BEIJING — Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia kicked off two days of talks in China on Sunday as Beijing seeks to strengthen its role in mediating the two countries’ border dispute, a day after they signed a new ceasefire. The ceasefire agreement signed on Saturday calls for a halt to weeks of fighting along their contested […]
ABC: BANGKOK — Political parties in Thailand on Sunday registered their candidates for the next prime minister, marking the unofficial start of campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved Parliament earlier this month to call early polls, after the main opposition party prepared to seek a no-confidence vote over constitutional change. Calling a new […]
BBC: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, for the latest round of talks aimed at ending nearly four years of war with Russia. The pair will discuss an updated version of a US-brokered peace plan, which Moscow is yet to support, as well as separate proposals for US security […]