A Ukrainian court has handed down the first jail sentence for life against a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Dmitry Kurashov, 27, was found guilty of shooting dead Vitalii Hodniuk, a veteran 41-year-old Ukrainian soldier who had surrendered following capture in 2024. Ukraine’s national police said that “expert reports, witness […]
BBC: A former Virginia schoolteacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student two years ago has been awarded $10m (£7.6m) in damages by a jury. Abigail Zwerner was seriously wounded and required multiple surgeries after the incident. She testified during her trial that “I thought I had died”. Ms Zwerner filed a $40m (£31.5m) lawsuit […]
BBC: Canada’s top court has refused to hear an appeal to stop the cull of hundreds of ostriches at a farm in British Columbia, leaving the farmers with few legal options to prevent it. The cull was ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) late last year after two birds tested positive for avian […]
BBC: Ukraine could be facing its biggest loss for months, if the key eastern city of Pokrovsk falls to Russian forces. The battle for this strategic point on a big road and rail artery in the Donetsk region has been going on for well over a year. If Russia’s Vladimir Putin were able to claim […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༦ ལུ་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༩༢ བཞེས་མི་ ཀེ་མེ་རུན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་དབུ་ཁྲིདཔ་ པ་འཱུལ་བི་ཡ་གིས་ ཡ་འཱུན་ཌི་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ མཛད་སྒོའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཅིག་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཐོག་ལས་ ད་རུང་ཡང་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༧ གྱི་རིང་ལུ་ སྲིད་འཛིན་གྱི་ གོ་གནས་བཞེས་པའི་ ཁས་བླངས་དམ་བཅའ་ཕུལ་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ གློག་རིག་སྒྲིག་བཀོད་ (PDF) ཐོག་ལུ་ 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་གནང་སྟེ་ 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་།
པདྨ་དབང་འདུས། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་གཙོས་པའི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་སྐུ་འཁོར་ལྷན་རྒྱས་ཚུ་གིས་ ཅང་གླིང་མའི་ཐང་ནང་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་གནང་པའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེ་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོའི་ འགོ་འབྱེད་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ནང་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡི། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ གློག་རིག་སྒྲིག་བཀོད་ (PDF) ཐོག་ལུ་ 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་གནང་སྟེ་ 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་།
BBC: Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam on Thursday after killing at least 114 people and flooding entire towns in the Philippines. More than 260,000 soldiers are on standby for rescue efforts as winds of up to 92mph (149km/h) hit the country’s coastline, according to Vietnamese media and the government’s online portal. Six airports in […]
BBC: Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement from Congress, ending a decades-long career that saw the California Democrat become one of the most powerful figures in US politics. In a video message on Thursday, Pelosi said she will not be seeking re-election to Congress at the end of her term in January 2027. It marks […]
BBC: Cameroon’s 92-year-old leader Paul Biya has been sworn in for another seven years as president in a ceremony at the country’s parliament in Yaoundé. Biya won a controversial eighth term in a fiercely disputed election last month. He has been in power for 43 years, and addressed only one campaign rally before the election. […]
BBC: Attackers have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel, according to a UK maritime agency. Greek shipping company Latsco Marine Management confirmed the attack on a ship carrying gasoline, saying all the ship’s 24 crew were “safe and accounted for” and “we remain […]
BBC: About 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police say. Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they said in a statement. Police say they were alerted late on Wednesday night when a man noticed that a car in […]
NDTV: Amid Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir’s increasing influence in Pakistan and abroad, Islamabad is planning to amend its constitution, possibly giving more power to its military. The Shehbaz Sharif government has confirmed that it will table the 27th constitutional amendment in Parliament soon, which includes proposed changes related to the command of the […]
