(Reuters) Jan 12 – Norway said on Monday it was providing 340 million euros ($397 million) in emergency funding to support Ukraine’s energy sector and help the government maintain critical services, as part of the Nordic country’s wider aid to the war-torn nation in 2026. Russian attacks have long targeted Ukraine’s energy network and have become more […]
BBC: The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis has sparked protests across the US and placed increased scrutiny on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). ICE has made thousands of arrests since Trump returned to the White House, often in public settings. Those actions have increasingly brought its agents into communities […]
BBC: Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St Louis, Missouri, sparking confusion and concern from the city’s animal control officials, who said they do not know where the primates came from. The monkeys have been running free since at least Thursday, when they were first spotted roaming the streets. Residents have been warned to […]
BBC: At least 20 people have been killed by a wild elephant in nine days in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials have said, adding that the animal is yet to be captured. The deaths occurred between 1 and 9 January in the Chaibasa and Kolhan forest areas of West Singhbhum district, which are […]
BBC: A British man has died in an avalanche in the French Alps. The man, believed to be in his 50s, was skiing with a group off-piste at La Plagne, a statement from the resort said. Rescuers were alerted to the avalanche at 13:57 (12:57 GMT) on Sunday and went immediately to the area, it […]
BBC: Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as BBC sources and activists report hundreds of protesters have now been killed in an escalating government crackdown. “Things here are very, very bad,” a source in Tehran said on Sunday. “A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live […]
BBC: About 550,000 accounts were blocked by Meta during the first days of Australia’s landmark social media ban for kids. In December, a new law began requiring that the world’s most popular social media sites – including Instagram and Facebook – stop Australians aged under 16 from having accounts on their platforms. The ban, which […]
BBC: Much less winter snow is falling on the Himalayas, leaving the mountains bare and rocky in many parts of the region in a season when they should be snow-clad, meteorologists have said. They say most winters in the last five years have seen a drop compared to average snowfall between 1980 and 2020. Rising […]
BBC: Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland’s Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports. Departures from Lapland’s Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travellers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on Sunday as temperatures did not go […]
BBC: One person has died and 300 homes and buildings have been destroyed in bushfires that have torn across south-east Australia. The fires have raged in dozens of locations across the country for several days, mostly in the state of Victoria, but also in New South Wales, burning through land almost twice the size of […]
(Reuters) SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Thousands of people in Australia’s northeast state of Queensland were without power on Sunday after a tropical cyclone crossed the coast bringing heavy rain and destructive winds. Koji, a category one cyclone, made landfall between the towns of Ayr and Bowen, about 500 km (310 miles) north of state capital […]
(Reuters) TOKYO, Jan 11 – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may call an early general election, the head of her party’s coalition partner said on Sunday, after media reported she was considering a February vote. It would be the first time for the conservative Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister and a fan of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, […]
