Reuters: PERTH, Nov 4 – Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday. The Solar Sharer programme will begin in the states of New […]
BBC: MANILA, Philippines — A fast-moving typhoon barreled across the central Philippines Monday after slamming ashore overnight from the Pacific, leaving at least two people dead, setting off flash floods that trapped residents on roofs and submerged cars in two villages, and displacing tens of thousands of people, officials said. Typhoon Kalmaegi was blowing over the […]
BBC: Kim Yong Nam, North Korea’s former ceremonial head of state and a lifelong supporter of the ruling dynasty, has died aged 97, according to state media. He held the role of president of Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly from 1998 to 2019. Kim Yong Nam served in various diplomatic roles under the regimes of […]
BBC: A worker who was trapped after part of a medieval tower collapsed in the heart of Rome, has died, according to hospital officials. Octay Stroici was pulled free at 23:00 local time (22:00 GMT), nearly twelve hours after a section of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the famous Roman Forum and […]
BBC: US space agency Nasa has rejected reality star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 space mission to land the first man on the Moon was faked. “Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Nasa acting administrator Sean Duffy wrote on social media. Kardashian made the comments on the latest episode of her long-running […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣ ལུ་ ཨཱཕ་གྷ་ནིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ མ་ཟར་ཨི་ ཤ་རིཕ་ཟེར་སར་ ས་ཡོམ་ཤུགས་ཚད་ མེག་ནི་ཅཱུད་ ༦.༣ འབད་མི་ཅིག་ རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་གྲངས་ ༢༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག། ས་ཡོམ་དེ་ མི་སེར་ ༥༠༠,༠༠༠ དེ་ཅིག་ཡོད་མི་ ཁྲོམས་ཚོགས་དེ་ཁར་ ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ དྲོ་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༡ དེ་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་ རྐྱེན་ངན་དེ་ནང་ མི་སེར་ ༣༢༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ཡང་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ ས་མང་གཱན་ཟེར་མི་ མངའ་སྡེའི་ནང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༨ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ ༡༨༠ ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ བ་ལག་ཟེར་མི་ མངའ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཡང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༤ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ ༡༢༠ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག་ཟེར་ བཀོད་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
BBC: Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being sworn in shortly for a second term following an election marred by violent protests and rejected by the opposition as a sham. The inauguration ceremony is being held at a military parade grounds in the capital, Dodoma, in an event closed to the public but broadcast live […]
BBC: Bali authorities have suspended the construction of a 182m (597 ft) cliffside glass lift on one of the Indonesian province’s most-photographed cliffs, after it sparked outrage over concerns of environmental harm. The lift on Kelingking Beach, to be built by Chinese developer China Kaishi Group, was supposed to make it easier for visitors to […]
Reuters: KATHMANDU, Nov 3 – The Supreme Court in Nepal has ordered a halt to the recall of nearly a dozen ambassadors, a lawyer said on Monday, in a setback for Prime Minister Sushila Karki and her interim government. Karki, a former chief justice who was appointed as the country’s first woman leader in September […]
BBC: At least 12 people have died after an earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, say local authorities, with the toll expected to rise as rescue efforts continue. Hundreds have also been left injured, local officials told the BBC The earthquake struck near Mazar-e-Sharif, one of the largest cities in Afghanistan, home to around 500,000 people, in […]
BBC: Nato “will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around the table for a long-lasting peace”, a senior official from the military alliance has told the BBC. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of Nato’s military committee since January, added from an operational point of view he considered […]
BBC: Rescuers and relatives searched knee-deep in water for the body of one-year-old Zara. She’d been swept away by flash floods; the bodies of her parents and three siblings had already been found days earlier. “We suddenly saw a lot of water. I climbed up to the roof and urged them to join me,” Arshad, […]
