BBC: “Want the royal charm of Jaipur? Don’t come here, just buy a postcard,” a local taxi driver quipped during my recent visit to the north-western Indian city. I had asked him why Rajasthan’s amber-hued capital – thriving with tourists drawn to its opulent palaces and majestic forts – looked so ramshackle. His answer reflected […]
BBC: One person has died and another suffered critical injuries after two helicopters collided mid-air on Sunday above a city in New Jersey, local police said. The Hammonton Police Department reported that one of the helicopters was engulfed in flames by the time it crash landed on the ground, and emergency services were working to […]
ANC: BEIJING — Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia kicked off two days of talks in China on Sunday as Beijing seeks to strengthen its role in mediating the two countries’ border dispute, a day after they signed a new ceasefire. The ceasefire agreement signed on Saturday calls for a halt to weeks of fighting along their contested […]
ABC: BANGKOK — Political parties in Thailand on Sunday registered their candidates for the next prime minister, marking the unofficial start of campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved Parliament earlier this month to call early polls, after the main opposition party prepared to seek a no-confidence vote over constitutional change. Calling a new […]
BBC: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, for the latest round of talks aimed at ending nearly four years of war with Russia. The pair will discuss an updated version of a US-brokered peace plan, which Moscow is yet to support, as well as separate proposals for US security […]
Al Jazeera: Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup. The heavily restricted election on Sunday is taking place in about a third of the Southeast Asian nation’s 330 townships, with large areas inaccessible amid a raging civil war […]
BBC: Two people have died in Sweden after a powerful winter storm swept across Nordic countries, causing travel disruption and power outages. The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued alerts for strong winds for large parts of the northern half of the country as Storm Johannes hit. One man in his 50s died after being […]
BBC: New York has woken up to its heaviest snowfall in nearly four years after a winter storm blanketed parts of the US north-east. New York City’s Central Park recorded 4.3in (11cm) of snow, its highest since January 2022, while other parts of the state saw up to 7.5in of snow, said the US National […]
BBC: Italian police have arrested nine people accused of raising around €7m (£6m) for Hamas over more than two years. The money was ostensibly collected as humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, a police statement said, but was instead sent to the militant group via a “complex fundraising system”. Alongside the arrests, police say they have […]
མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ། རང་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༧ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༧ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ ༤ པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཆེན་མོ་ ཟླ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཚོགས་གནང་མི་ ཚོགས་ཐེངས་ ༤ པ་ མཇུག་བསྡུའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ནང་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡི། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་དོན་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་དངུལ་ཁང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསར་ཤོག་གི་ རྩིས་ཁྲ་ཨང་ ༡༠༠༩༡༥༣༣༤ ཅན་མར་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ ༥༠༠ བཙུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་གནང་ཟེར་ ཞུ་ནི་དང་། བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
(Reuters) HANOI, Dec 27- At least seven people died on Saturday when a bus carrying 19 passengers overturned on a mountainous road in Vietnam’s northern province of Yen Bai, state-run media reported. The 29-seat bus carrying a charity group was travelling downhill when it flipped and was crushed, according to Vietnam News Agency. Rescue teams […]
ABC: KABUL, Afghanistan — For 10 hours a day, Rahimullah sells socks from his cart in eastern Kabul, earning about $4.5 to $6 per day. It’s a pittance, but it’s all he has to feed his family of five. Rahimullah, who like many Afghans goes by only one name, is one of millions of Afghans who […]
