(Reuters) BEIJING, Aug 26 – Many people were feared dead or missing after a mudslide hit major border crossing between China and Nepal in Tibet’s Gyirong county on Wednesday, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported. “At approximately 10:30 AM (0230 GMT) on August 26, due to a mudslide occurring on the Nepalese side, major casualties and missing […]
BBC: At least 14 newborn babies have died in a fire on a hospital ward in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. The fire broke out on the third floor of the mother and child unit of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital, one of the main state-run hospitals in the city, on Wednesday morning. An […]
Tha Kathmandu Post: A flash flood has swept through the Timure and Syabrubesi areas of Rasuwa, damaging markets and hydropower projects and prompting authorities to warn communities downstream along the Trishuli river. The Rasuwa District Administration Office said it had received reports of a sudden surge in the Bhote Koshi river, which enters Nepal from […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON, Aug 25 – President Donald Trump’s administration is starting to send personnel back to some diplomatic missions in the Middle East that were evacuated or downsized amid tensions with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The posts in Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Baghdad, Iraq, are among those where staff […]
པདྨ་དབང་འདུས། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༥ ལུ་ རྒྱ་པཱན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྐུ་ཚབ་ ཝི་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱ་པཱན་གྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་ ཀེ་ཨི་ཅི་ཨོ་ནོ་གིས་ ནིའུ་དིལླི་ལུ་སྦེ་ མི་སྟོབས་གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ དྲན་ཐོ་བརྗེ་སོར་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ནུག། ཆིངས་ཡིག་དེ་གི་འོག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་པཱན་གཞུང་གིས་ འབྲུག་གཞུང་ལུ་ གཞུང་གཡོག་ནང་གི་ ན་གཞོན་འགོ་དཔོན་བདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་པཱན་གྱི་ གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་ཚུ་ནང་ མཐོ་རིམ་གོང་མའི་ ཤེས་ཡོན་སྦྱང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ རྒྱ་པཱན་གྱི་ཏི་རུ་ ཡེན་ས་ཡ་ ༡༧༡ དེ་ཅིག་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་སྦེ་ བྱིན་ནི་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ མི་སྟོབས་གོང་འཕེལ་གྱི་ སློབ་གཉེར་གྲོགས་རམ་ལས་འགུལ་ གོ་རིམ་གསུམ་པའི་འོག་ལུ་ དྲན་ཐོ་བརྗེ་སོར་དང་པ་ཨིནམ་ད་ དྲན་ཐོ་བརྗེ་སོར་དང་པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༨ ལོར་ ཐིམ་ཕུ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རྒྱ་པཱན་གྱི་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་བློན་པོ་ ཏཱ་རོ་ཀོ་ནོ་གི་ གཟིགས་སྐོར་སྐབས་ལུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ནུག།
BBC: Canada has announced counter-tariffs as high as 50% on a range of US goods in retaliation to the latest wave of levies on Canadian imports imposed by President Donald Trump last weekend. The Canadian tariffs will apply to nearly C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) worth of American products, ranging from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and […]
BBC: HONG KONG/TOKYO/TAIPEI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Widespread floods triggered by heavy rain from Typhoon Narra intensified on Tuesday across southern China, with homes and shops submerged and thousands of people relocated, while another storm system made its way towards Japan and Taiwan. Authorities in Chongzuo, in China’s Guangxi region, famous for its giant waterfalls […]
BBC: China has vowed to protect its interests after the US announced plans to widen economic sanctions against Iran and its trading partners, which include Beijing. Foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said China was firmly opposed to what it called “illegal unilateral sanctions” and would take “all necessary measures” to safeguard its rights. This came […]
BBC: A tornado has torn through the village of Pomas in south-west France, injuring 39 people and damaging hundreds of homes. Authorities said 15 people were taken to hospital and two were in a critical condition. One man said his pregnant wife was injured after their house collapsed on her. More than 120 emergency workers […]