(Reuters) WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, April 8 – President Donald Trump welcomes NATO chief Mark Rutte to the White House on Wednesday, as the war with Iran has pushed U.S. relations with other members of the military alliance to a crisis point. The Republican president has threatened to withdraw from the 32-member transatlantic alliance and denounced Washington’s European allies in […]
BBC: Madagascar has declared a two‑week nationwide state of energy emergency amid severe fuel shortages caused by the US and Israel’s war in Iran. The presidency said the decision was taken following Tuesday’s cabinet meeting over fears the situation could lead to public disorder. The Indian Ocean island, which relies on oil to produce much […]
BBC: The Israeli military has carried out a wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning, an indication that, for Israel, the US-Iran ceasefire deal does not apply to Lebanon, where it is fighting the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah. Air strikes hit the Tyre and Nabatieh areas in the south of the country, […]
བི་བི་སི། ཡུ་ཨེཛ་དང་ ཨི་རཱན་གྱི་བར་ན་ བདུན་ཕྲག་ ༢ ཀྱི་རིང་ལུ་ དམག་འཛིང་མཚམས་འཇོག་འབད་ནི་སྦེ་ ཁ་འཆམ་བྱུང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་གྱི་ གོང་ཚད་ཚུ་ མར་ཕབ་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ སོང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ བགོ་བཤའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཚུ་ཡང་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ ཞུན་དག་མིན་པའི་ ས་སྣུམ་བེ་རེལ་རེ་ལུ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༡༥.༩ དེ་རེ་ མར་ཕབ་སོང་སྟེ་ ཌོ་ལར་ ༩༢.༣༠ ལུ་ ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཡུ་ཨེཛ་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་མི་ ས་སྣུམ་གྱི་ གོང་ཚད་དེ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༡༦.༥ དེ་ཅིག་འབདཝ་ད་ ཌོ་ལར་ ༩༣.༨༠ རེ་ལུ་ མར་ཕབ་སོང་ནུག། ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༨ ལུ་ ཕྱད་མདའ་འགོ་མ་བཙུགས་པའི་ ཧེ་མ་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ གོང་ཚད་མཐོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ར་ གནས་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ དེ་བསྒང་ ས་སྣུམ་བེ་རེལ་རེ་ལུ་ ཌོ་ལར་ ༧༠ དེ་རེ་སྦེ་ སྡོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, April 8 – North Korea fired several ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, following a separate launch detected a day earlier as Pyongyang doused Seoul’s hopes of an easing in tensions. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the unidentified missiles were launched […]
BBC: Republican Clay Fuller is projected to have won Georgia’s runoff election to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a once-staunch ally of Donald Trump who resigned earlier this year after breaking with the president. Fuller won the election to replace her on Tuesday, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. He is a […]
BBC: In the end, cooler heads prevailed – at least for now. At 18:32 Washington time, President Donald Trump posted on his social media website that the US and Iran were “very far along” with a “definitive” peace agreement and that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire to allow negotiations to proceed. It wasn’t […]
BBC: Global oil prices have fallen sharply and stock markets have jumped after the US and Iran agreed a conditional two-week ceasefire deal that includes the reopening of the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. The price of benchmark Brent crude fell by about 15.9% to $92.30 (£68.87) a barrel, while US-traded oil was almost 16.5% […]
BBC: The World Health Organization has suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing after a contractor was killed by Israeli troops on Monday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the contractor – named locally as Majdi Aslan, 54 – was killed in a “security incident” and that two staff were present […]
BBC: Dozens of people have died from floods following heavy rains in recent days in the Angolan capital, Luanda, and other areas across the country. Emergency services have reported at least 29 deaths in Luanda and the central city of Benguela, with more than 34,000 people affected. The flooding also damaged thousands of homes and […]
BBC: A train driver has died after his high-speed passenger train collided with a lorry at a level crossing in France while travelling at an estimated 160km/h (99mph). The incident took place shortly before 07:00 (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday morning between Béthune and Lens in the northern Pas-de-Calais region. Two people initially deemed to have […]
BBC: Vietnam’s communist-dominated general assembly has elected To Lam, the party leader, to be the country’s president and head of state, an unusual concentration of power in one person. He was elected unanimously by the 500 seat assembly which started sitting on Monday, following the Communist Party Congress in January, which makes all the big […]
