BBC: The families of more than 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels along Nepal’s Trishuli River are clinging to hope their loved ones can be found alive. Rescuers continued battling to reach them on Monday, using explosives to blast into the hillside before pumping air into the Trishuli-3A […]
BBC: US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation after about 18 months in the role. His departure was confirmed by CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, which reported it came after months of conflict between him and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The youngest-ever army secretary has often been referred to as President Donald […]
BBC: India’s commerce minister Piyush Goyal led the country’s largest-ever business delegation to Japan last week in a bid to expand trade and investment ties between the two countries. His visit came as Japan’s deepening push into Asia’s third largest economy has become increasingly more apparent. If you visit a shopping mall or a high […]
BBC: Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Kenya’s main airport in the capital, Nairobi, as flight disruptions continued for the second day amid a workers’ strike. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is a key regional transport hub. On Sunday, the airports authority and the national carrier, Kenya Airways, warned departing flights may be delayed. A […]
Al Jazeera: Washington plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week as it steps up its campaign to economically isolate Tehran amid the deadlocked truce talks, the US Treasury chief has said. In an interview with The Associated Press news agency on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined to name the bank to be targeted by […]
BBC: Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year. The plant, on the edge of Kyiv, was hit during the night by a Russian missile, just as production was ramping up to deliver 1.3 million books – 10% of […]
BBC: About 15 people are thought to be missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the Grand Canyon. It hit at around 14:30 local time (22:30 BST) on Saturday in Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Sixty-two people have so far been airlifted […]
BBC: US forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran’s Larak island, a US official said, marking the first known American strikes on Iran since late July. “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz,” the BBC’s US partner CBS News quoted US Central […]
སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༩ གི་དྲོ་པ་ ནོར་ཝེའི་རྒྱལཔོ་ ཧ་རཱལཌ་ ༥ པ་ གཤགས་མིའི་དོན་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་རྫོང་གི་ ཀུན་དགའ་རའི་ནང་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ མར་མེ་སྟོང་མཆོད་ ཕུལ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུ་གནང་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་གཙོས་པའི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ ཚེ་རིང་དབྱངས་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་དང་ སྐུ་འཁོར་ལྷན་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ མར་མེ་སྟོང་མཆོད་ ཕུལ་གནང་ནི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཐུགས་སྨོན་ཚུ་ཡང་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་བསྒང་ མི་རྗེ་བློན་ཆེན་དང་ གཞུང་གི་ཆེ་མཐོའི་འགོ་དཔོན་ དེ་ལས་ ནོར་ཝེའི་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྐུ་ཚབ་བགྲེསཔ་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ནོར་ཝེའི་སྐུ་ཚབ་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ གྲལ་གཏོགས་འབད་ནུག།
BBC: Several people have died after a passenger boat with nearly 270 people aboard capsized off northern Cyprus, the head of the local government has said. Ünal Üstel, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus said six people had died. The Turkish ambassador to the northern Cypriot capital, Nicosia, confirmed there […]
BBC A manhunt is under way after a 22-year-old woman was killed and five others injured in a shooting at a rave in Switzerland. The woman died at the scene in Aarau, police said. Four men and a woman, aged between 24 and 27, were in hospital with injuries “ranging from minor to severe”. Sources […]