(Reuters) SEOUL, March 10 – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said U.S.-South Korea military drills that began this week were a “provocative and aggressive war rehearsal” that would harm regional stability, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. The annual Freedom Shield military exercises revealed the allies’ “habitual hostile […]
(Reuters) BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, March 9 – Escalating hostilities have forced nearly 700,000 people to flee their homes in Lebanon over the past week, a U.N. agency said on Monday, as the war between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah entered a second week. Lebanon has been pulled deep into the war in the Middle East since Hezbollah […]
BBC: G7 nations have said they are ready to take “necessary measures” to support the global supply of energy after the US-Israel war with Iran sent oil prices surging. However, a meeting of G7 finance ministers and the International Energy Agency (IEA) ended without an agreement to release strategic crude reserves. The oil price reached […]
BBC: Counting of votes in Nepal’s general election held on 5 March, shows the party of rapper and ex-Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah on course to win in a landslide. The Rastriya Swatantra Party’s (RSP) win marks the first time in decades that a single party has garnered a majority in Nepal which has a two-system […]
BBC: Stock markets have slumped and global oil prices have jumped above $100 (£75.02) a barrel as the escalating US-Israeli war with Iran has fuelled fears of prolonged disruption to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran on Sunday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader, signalling that a week […]
BBC: Mojtaba Khamenei will replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Iran’s new supreme leader. A statement by the Assembly of Experts – an 88-member clerical body tasked with selecting the supreme leader – was read aloud by a presenter on state TV. Mojtaba Khamenei takes over from his father – who was killed in […]
BBC: Thousands of travellers waited in hours-long queues at US airports on Sunday amid increased spring travel and limited security personnel – who have been working without pay during a partial US government shutdown. Photos show people standing in long queues at check points managed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at airports in […]
BBC: An overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway’s police have said. The embassy in the Norwegian capital sustained minor damage after the blast in the early hours of Sunday – but no-one was injured. “One of the hypotheses is that it is an act of […]
BBC: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has told the BBC his “mind boggles” at questions over the legality of the war on Iran, saying it was necessary for self-defence in the face of Tehran’s nuclear and military ambitions. Iran’s leaders had not adhered to international law themselves, he told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, adding […]
BBC: Police in Norway have cordoned off the area around the US embassy in Oslo after an explosion was reported there. “Large resources” were sent to the area at about 01:00 local time (midnight GMT), police said. “The police are in dialogue with the embassy and no injuries have been reported,” the statement said. “There […]
