(Reuters: TOKYO, Oct 27 – U.S. President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the latest leg of a five-day Asia trip which he hopes to cap with an agreement on a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump, making his longest journey abroad since taking office in January, announced deals with four Southeast […]
ABC: TOKYO — Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. He has served the world’s dignitaries and his art of sushi was featured in an award-winning film. After all these achievements and at the age of 100, he is not ready to fully […]
བི་བི་སི། རྒྱ་གར་དང་ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་བར་ན་ མཐུན་ལམ་ཚུ་ ཡར་རྒྱས་འགྱོ་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ནང་ ཐད་ཀར་དུ་ གནམ་གྲུ་འཕུར་འགྲུལ་འབད་ནི་ཚུ་ཡང་ ལོག་སྟེ་ར་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། གནས་ཚུལ་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་ གློག་རིག་སྒྲིག་བཀོད་ (PDF) ཐོག་ལུ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
BBC: The UN has called for safe passage for trapped civilians out of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher after paramilitary fighters announced they had seized control of the army’s main base there. Sudan’s military has not acknowledged loss of the site, which would be a significant victory for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the […]
BBC: As US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in Kuala Lumpur, it was at the end of a busy 24 hours that, by the White House’s account, included a flurry of deals that brought “peace and prosperity” to the region. The headlines will follow Trump as he flies to Japan and then South […]
BBC: Mali has suspended schools and universities nationwide due to a severe fuel scarcity caused by a blockade on fuel imports imposed by Islamist insurgents. Education Minister Amadou Sy Savane announced on state television that all education institutions would remain shut until 9 November, saying the movement of staff and students had been affected by […]
BBC: Following another week of intensive and lethal Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s cities, a composite image has been doing the rounds on Ukrainian social media. Underneath an old, black-and-white photo of Londoners queuing at a fruit and vegetable stall surrounded by the bombed-out rubble of the Blitz, a second image – this time in colour […]
BBC: With no heavyweightopposition candidates cleared to compete in Wednesday’s election, many Tanzanians feel the vote is less like a contest and more like a coronation for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, as she faces her first presidential election. The 65-year-old became the East African nation’s first female head of state after the death in 2021 […]
BBC: At least four people have been killed during protests in Cameroon’s economic capital of Douala, authorities say, ahead of the official announcement of results in a highly-contested presidential election. The regional governor, Samuel Dieudonné Diboua, said police posts had come under attack and security forces had defended themselves. Hundreds of supporters of opposition presidential […]
BBC: Direct flights between India and China have resumed as relations between the world’s two most populous nations. IndiGo flight 6E 1703 from Kolkata landed in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Monday, carrying about 180 passengers. Flights between the two countries were first suspended during the Covid pandemic in early 2020 and did […]
BBC: Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has expressed concern that she didn’t ask Joe Biden to pull out of the race for the White House. In an interview with the BBC for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said: “I do reflect on whether I should have had a conversation with him, urging him not to […]
BBC: It was, as everyone knew it would be, all about US President Donald Trump. He literally towered over everyone else at the ceremony in Kuala Lumpur where Cambodia and Thailand signed their agreement. He gave the longest speech – and made the biggest claims. It was all superlatives. “This is a momentous day for […]
