BBC: Zimbabwe’s cabinet has approved draft legislation that would allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 83, to extend his stay in office until at least 2030. Presidents would be chosen by MPs rather than in a direct vote and could serve a maximum of two seven-year terms, rather than the current five-year terms, under the proposals. Justice […]
BBC: An airline in Somalia has praised one of its pilots after he crash-landed his passenger plane, which had suffered a technical fault, on the shoreline next to the capital’s international airport with all 55 on board surviving. Starsky Aviation said the pilot’s quick thinking was crucial in saving the 50 passengers and five crew. […]
བི་བི་སི། རྒྱ་པཱན་གྱི་བློན་ཆེན་ ཨམ་ས་ནེ་ ཏ་ཀའི་ཅི་གི་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ ལི་བི་རཱལ་ ཌེ་མོ་ཀེ་རེ་ཊིག་ པར་ཊི་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ལས་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཅན་གྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༩ ལུ་ བགོ་བཤའ་ཚུ་ མཐོ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༨ ལུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ལས་ ལི་བི་རཱལ་ ཌེ་མོ་ཀེ་རེ་ཊིག་ པར་ཊི་གིས་ སྡོད་ཁྲི་ ༤༦༥ ལས་ ༣༡༦ ཐོབ་མི་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༤༧ ལོར་ རྒྱ་པཱན་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ད་ཚུན་གྱི་བར་ན་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཚོགས་ཁང་འོག་མའི་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྲི་གསུམ་དཔྱ་ ༢ ཐོབ་མི་དེ་ འགོ་དང་པ་ཨིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་དོན་ལས་ […]
BBC: Australian police have defended their actions after violently clashing with protesters during a demonstration against a visit by the Israeli president. Video emerged of police charging and punching protesters during the rally in Sydney on Monday night, with a state parliament MP among those who said they were injured in the clashes. Police said […]
(Reuters) DHAKA, Feb 10 – China’s influence in Bangladesh, boosted by the 2024 ouster of New Delhi‑aligned leader Sheikh Hasina, is likely to deepen after this week’s election, although politicians and analysts say India is too large a neighbour to be sidelined completely. Bangladesh votes on February 12 and the two frontrunner parties have historically […]
BBC: President Donald Trump has threatened to block the opening of a bridge connecting the US and Canada until Washington is “fully compensated for everything” it has given to its northern neighbour. The Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting the Canadian province of Ontario to the US state of Michigan, would not open until Ottawa “treats […]
BBC: As the dust from what has been a hard-fought election campaign in Thailand settles, many Thais may be rubbing their eyes and asking, “what just happened?”. Most of the opinion polls published before the election predicted a win for the progressive People’s Party. Some suggested it would get more than 200 seats in parliament, […]
A total of 18 people have died as a result of a period of extreme cold weather in New York City, its mayor has said. Since late January, the city has endured a cold snap, including 13 days of temperatures of 0C (32F) or below – one of the longest stretches of sub-zero weather New […]
BBC: The death toll from the collapse of two residential buildings in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has risen to 14, state media say. Eight people were rescued alive, Civil Defence director general Imad Khreiss said. Khreiss said the two adjoining buildings were home to 22 residents, but local municipal authorities warned people could […]
BBC: Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and broken up a paedophile gang operating between the country and France. Those arrested, who are all Senegalese, were part of a “transnational” criminal group that has been in operation since 2017, according to a police statement. It said the group was accused of “organised paedophilia, […]