BBC: Japanese stocks surged to a record high on Monday, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) basked in a historic election victory. The LDP secured 316 out of 465 seats in Sunday’s election, the first time a single party has won a two-thirds lower house majority since Japan’s parliament was established in […]
BBC: Train drivers in Spain are due to begin a three-day nationwide strike on Monday in protest of what they say is a lack of safety guarantees on the country’s rail system. The action follows two fatal train crashes in January, one in Adamuz in the country’s southern region which killed 46 people, and the […]
BBC: The walls of Dhaka University are screaming again. Graffiti – angry, witty, sometimes poetic – sprawls across walls and corridors, echoing the Gen Z-led July 2024 uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina after 15 years in power. Once Bangladesh’s pro-democracy icon, critics say she had grown increasingly autocratic. After her resignation, she fled to India. Students gather […]
BBC: Jihadist groups are increasingly carrying out drone strikes in West Africa, raising alarm that they are building the capacity to wage a “war from the skies”. A leading violence monitoring organisation, Acled, has recorded at least 69 drone strikes by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Burkina Faso and Mali since 2023, while two Islamic State […]
BBC: Suspected attacks on northern Italy’s railway network have led to severe travel disruption in the region, the authorities say, as thousands gathered for the start of the Winter Olympic Games. Police reported three separate incidents involving damage to railway lines that they believe are connected to the Games. A fire hit rail infrastructure between […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, Feb 8 – Polls opened in Thailand on Sunday in a general election defined by a three-way battle between the country’s conservative, progressive and populist camps, with no single party expected to secure a clear majority, prolonging the spectre of political instability. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul set the stage for the snap election in mid-December, amid a raging […]
BBC: People across Japan are braving snow to vote in a snap election called by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whose coalition is expected clinch a decisive win, according to polls. This is first mid-winter election in 36 years in Japan, which usually holds polls during milder weather. But Takaichi called an election to seek the public’s mandate […]
བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཟླ་ངོ་ཕྱེད་དང་ ༢ དེ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ པད་གླིང་ཆོས་འཁོར་ ༡༣ གྱི་ བཀའ་དབང་དང་ ལྗགས་ལུང་ཚུ་ གནང་མི་དེ་ རང་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༡ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ ལུ་ ཚེ་དབང་དང་བཅསཔ་སྦེ་ གྲོལ་གནང་ནུག།བཀའ་ཆོས་དེ་ རང་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༥ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༥ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ བསམ་རྩེ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་སྦེ་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཧེ་མ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༧༣ ལོར་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༨ བཞེས་པའི་ གནས་སྐབས་ནང་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བདུད་འཇོམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ དཔལ་འཇིགས་བྲལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག་གིས་ པད་གླིང་ཆོས་འཁོར་གྱི་ བཀའ་དབང་གནང་སའི་ གནས་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་འབད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན་ཟེར་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ ཁྲུས་ཆུ་དགོན་པའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ པད་གླིང་དབང་ལུང་གི་གཉེར་པ་ སློབ་དཔོན་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ གསུངསམ་ཨིན་པས། […]
BBC: Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition, the country’s main opposition, reunited on Sunday, more than two weeks after the centre-right partners split in a row over hate speech laws. “The Coalition is back together and looking to the future, not to the past,” Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley said, appearing alongside National Party leader David Littleproud in […]