BBC: Australians in Victoria have been warned they should prepare for “property loss or worse” as much of the country faces extreme heatwave conditions. Temperatures on Friday and Saturday are forecast to hit record highs for most states and territories, with Victoria and South Australia in particular bracing for dangerous fire conditions due to strong […]
BBC: Nasa has said it will return a four-person crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), cutting short their mission a month early because of a “serious medical condition” affecting one of the astronauts. The agency did not disclose the name of the crew member or the medical condition, citing health privacy, but said the […]
BBC: At least eight people, including four children, have been killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the territory’s civil defence agency has said. Four people, including three children, were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, the agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP. […]
(Reuters) CAIRO/DUBAI, Jan 8 – Israel’s military said on Thursday it had carried out a targeted strike on a rocket launch site near Gaza City after identifying a failed launch, as questions mount over when the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire will begin. The military said the projectile did not cross into Israeli territory […]
(Reuters) ADEN, Jan 8 – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates had spirited a separatist leader out of the country in a dramatic twist to a row between the Gulf powers, as witnesses said Saudi-backed forces advanced to the port of Aden after losing ground there. The Saudi-led […]
BBC: One of the world’s most endangered whales that was first identified two years off the coast of County Donegal has been sighted for a second time some 3,000 miles away. The North Atlantic right whale was recorded near Slieve League in 2024 – the first confirmed recording of the species in Irish waters. Now researchers have […]
BBC: A US immigration agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman on Wednesday in the city of Minneapolis, but the details of what led up to the incident have left a wide chasm between federal and local government officials. Trump administration officials claim the woman, identified as Renee Nicole Good, was a “violent rioter” attempting to […]
BBC: Russian attacks left Ukraine’s southeastern regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia almost entirely without power, the country’s energy ministry said on Wednesday night. Critical infrastructure was “operating on reserve power”, it said in a statement on Telegram, while officials said water supplies and the internet were also disrupted. Russia has recently intensified attacks on Ukraine’s […]
BBC: President Trump’s favourite word is tariffs. He reminded the world of that in his pre-Christmas “address to the nation”. With the world still unwrapping the tariffs “gift” from the first year of his second term in office, he said they were bringing jobs, higher wages and economic growth to the US. That is hotly contested. […]
BBC: At least 12 people have reportedly been killed during two days of intense clashes between Syrian government and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo. Tens of thousands of civilians have also fled the Kurdish majority neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh, which the Syrian army shelled on Wednesday afternoon after designating them […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, Jan 7 – The U.S. was trying to seize a Russian-flagged, Venezuela-linked tanker on Wednesday as part of President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to dictate oil flows in America’s backyard and force Caracas’ socialist government to become its ally. Having deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Washington is blockading sanctioned vessels in and out of waters off the South […]
Reuters: ALEPPO, Syria, Jan 7 – Fierce fighting resumed in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters for a second day on Wednesday, sending thousands of civilians fleeing and leaving at least four people dead. The violence, and statements trading blame over who started it, signaled that a stalemate between Damascus […]
