ABC: TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament is set to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner that would pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichi will replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum […]
BBC: She’s the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going. Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft – but despite her remarkable achievements, not everyone will know her name. Now a feature-length documentary called Spacewoman, which chronicles her trailblazing career, looks set to change […]
BBC: South Korean police said they would seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media report. One of the woman’s neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window. The […]
BBC: Parts of the White House’s East Wing have been demolished, as construction begins on US President Donald Trump’s new ballroom. Construction crews on Monday tore down massive chunks of a covered entryway and windows in the East Wing, which Trump said is being “fully modernised”. The president previously said that his $250m (£186m) White […]
Reuters: CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Oct 20 – Israeli fire killed three people near a ceasefire line in Gaza on Monday, medics said, with U.S. envoys expected in Israel to try to push forward the fragile truce that faced its gravest test so far over the weekend. A Palestinian official close to ceasefire talks said efforts by Arab mediators and […]
BBC: The Nigerian police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had gathered in the capital, Abuja, over the continued detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters, led by activist and publisher of the Sahara Reporters news site, Omoyele Sowore, want the immediate release of Kanu, who is on trial on terrorism charges […]
Al Jazeera: United States President Donald Trump has called for Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war along current battle lines – a proposal that would see Moscow keep large areas of Ukrainian territory. Trump told reporters late on Sunday that the two sides should just stop fighting and resolve the “details” over territory at […]
BBC: A South Korean court has sentenced a teacher to life in prison for fatally stabbing an eight-year-old girl, in a case that shocked the nation. Myeong Jae-wan, 48, killed Kim Hae-neul, after luring her into a classroom in the central city of Daejeon in February. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Myeong, saying […]
BBC: China’s economic growth slowed in the three months to the end of September as problems in the property market persisted and trade tensions with the US flared up. The world’s second-largest economy grew by 4.8% compared to the same period in 2024, its weakest pace in a year, official figures released on Monday show. The data […]
BBC: Business leaders in Bangladesh fear losses of more than $1bn (£750m) after a devastating fire broke out in the logistics section of the country’s main airport on Saturday. Clothes and raw materials were among the goods destroyed, which could put some businesses at risk, according to the country’s export associations. The cause of the […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ གི་དྲོ་པར་ ཧོང་ཀོང་གི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ནང་ ཅ་ཆས་འབག་མི་ གནམ་གྲུ་ཅིག་ རྒྱུགས་ལམ་གུ་ལས་ འགྱེལ་ཏ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ནང་ ཆགས་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ གནམ་ཐང་དེ་ནང་ ལཱ་འབད་མི་ ༢ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག། གནས་ཚུལ་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་ 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་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་དེ བཀའ་དྲིན་བསྐྱང་གནང་ཟེར་ ཞུ་ནི་དང་།བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ གློག་འཕྲིན་ཁ་བྱང་ gyalchi.cir@gmail.com དང་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
BBC: A cargo plane skidded off a runway at Hong Kong International Airport and landed in the sea early on Monday, killing two ground staff. Emirates flight EK9788 was arriving from Dubai at about 03:50 local time (19:50 GMT) when it veered off the runway and collided with an airport patrol vehicle. The two people […]
