BBC: The top Democrat on the congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein has accused the US justice department of withholding files containing allegations of sexual abuse of a minor made against President Donald Trump. Robert Garcia, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said he had personally viewed documents containing the allegation that had not been […]
BBC: India’s Supreme Court has banned a school textbook after a chapter in it made a reference to corruption in the judiciary. The revised social science book was published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which designs the syllabus and textbooks for millions of schoolchildren in the country. On Wednesday, after […]
ABC: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s security forces killed 34 militants in multiple raids across the country, the military said on Wednesday, as a separate ambush blamed on the Pakistani Taliban killed four police officers near the Afghan border. Pakistan’s military, in a statement, said 26 militants, including at least one Afghan, were killed in four separate […]
པདྨ་དབང་འདུས།སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༡ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་གིས དབུ་གཙོས་པའི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ལྷན་རྒྱས་ དེ་ལས་ མི་དབང་སྐུ་འཁོར་ལྷན་རྒྱས་ཡོངས་ཀྱིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ གོང་འཕེལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ གལ་གནད་ཆེ་བའི་ ཨྱོན་ནོར་ལྷ་མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་ འགོ་འབྱེད་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་ ས་བསླང་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ མཛད་སྒོ་ཚུ་དང་ ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཁས་བླངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་ སྐོར་ཐེངས་ ༥ པའི་ནང་ ཁས་བླངས་པ་ ༡༦,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་དང་ མཉམ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡི།དེ་བསྒང་ ཨྱོན་ནོར་ལྷའི་ མཆོད་རྟེན་དེ་ ཨྱོན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་ རྣམ་སྤྲུལ་ལུ་ ཆེད་དུ་བསྔོ་ཐབས་ལུ་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ བྱིན་ལྡན་ས་རྟགས་དང་པ་སྦེ་ བསྒྲུབས་ཡོད་མི་དེ་གི་ སྒོ་འབྱེད་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ མཛད་གནང་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ 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 […]
BBC: A baseline tariff may be the “price” Canada has to pay to continue shipping goods to the US, Canada’s finance minister said. François-Philippe Champagne’s remarks came after Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, in which the US president said he wants tariffs to eventually replace income taxes to become America’s main revenue source. […]
BBC: Two teenage boys have been killed and one has been seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in County Donegal near the border with Northern Ireland. Gardaí (Irish police) said a car and a lorry were involved in the collision in the village of St Johnston, about eight miles from Londonderry, at 23:15 local time […]
BBC: Ugandan police have arrested two women, both in their 20s, after neighbours reported seeing them kiss outside, an act criminalised under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the police said the pair had been taken into custody on Wednesday 18 February in Arua, a city in north-western Uganda. Authorities said […]
Reuters: Feb 25 – A retired general from an army-backed party that swept Myanmar’s election is set to take the powerful role of speaker of parliament, party sources said, which could help the military cement control of government after a return to democratic rule. A junta that has run Myanmar since a 2021 coup will formally cede […]
BBC: A bomb scare at the Australian prime minister’s home originated from written threats directed at a Chinese dance and music group banned by Beijing. In emails seen by local media, performers of the Shen Yun group were told to cancel their upcoming Australian shows or risk explosives being detonated at Anthony Albanese’s official residence […]
BBC: Japan plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles to its remote western island near Taiwan by March 2031, its defence minister said, as regional tensions simmer. It is the first time that Japan specified a timeline for the missile deployment to Yonaguni island since it was announced in 2022. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own […]