BBC: A Chinese national has been sentenced to three years in prisonfor damaging an undersea cable connecting Taiwan’s main island and the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait. The man, identified by his surname Wang, was the captain of the Togolese-registered vessel Hong Tai 58. The Tainan District Court’s verdict on Thursday marks the first […]
BBC: Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependants in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said. Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, however, on Wednesday, US officials were told Israel was ready to launch an operation into Iran, the BBC’s US partner […]
མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ། རང་ཟླ་ ༤ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༥ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༡ ལུ་ ང་བཅས་རའི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ མཐའ་དབུས་གེ་རའི་ནང་ ཕྱག་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་གཏོང་ལ་སོགས་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ བདག་ཅག་གི་སྟོན་པ་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་ དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་འདི་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ ཐིམ་ཕུ་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་དམ་པ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ དྲིན་ཅན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་ མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲི་རབས་ ༧༠ པ་ སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་མཆོག་གིས་ མི་དམངས་ཡོངས་ལུ་ གུ་རུ་ཐོད་ཕྲེང་རིགས་ལྔའི་ བཀའ་དབང་ཟབ་མོ་ བསྩལ་གནང་ཡི། དེ་སྦེ་ ཉིན་ཡོལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༢.༣༠ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་གནང་མི་ བཀའ་དབང་གི་ལས་རིམ་དེ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ ས་གནས་དེ་ཁར་འཛོམས་མི་ དད་ཅན་སྐྱ་སེར་ཕོ་མོ་ཡོངས་ཀྱིས་ མགྲིན་དབྱངས་གཅིག་གི་སྒོ་ལས་ དཔལ་མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༧༠ པའི་ དུས་སྟོན་བརྩི་སྲུང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྐུ་རིམ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གྲལ་ལས་ དང་པ་ཕྱག་དང་ བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་དུང་ཕྱུར་ བསག་གནང་ནི་གི་ […]
BBC: Dozens of Palestinians have been killed as they tried to access aid in Gaza, hospitals say. Two hospitals in Gaza City said 25 people were killed overnight, near a convoy transporting flour and a food distribution site run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the area of the Netzarim corridor, an […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/LONDON, June 10 – A U.S.-China trade deal is “done,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, hours after negotiators from Washington and Beijing agreed on a framework to get a fragile trade truce back on track and remove Chinese export restrictions on rare earth minerals and other critical industrial components. Trump took to […]
(Reuters) CAIRO, June 11 – Israeli military strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, most of them at an aid site operated by the U.S-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza, local health officials said. Medical officials at Shifa and Al-Quds Hospitals said at least 25 people were killed as they approached […]
BBC: Hong Kong residents found downloading or sharing a mobile game app about defeating the communist regime may be punished under national security laws, police have said. According to the website for Reversed Front: Bonfire, players can “pledge allegiance” to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Tibet or Uyghurs, among other options, “to overthrow the Communist regime”. […]
BBC: A minibus carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial government has told the BBC. Khuselwa Rantjie said it was unclear how many children were on the bus, but three had so far been found alive. Rescue efforts had been suspended as night […]
(Reuters) CAIRO, June 10 – Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of a U.S.-backed humanitarian group in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said. Medics said the casualties were rushed at two hospitals, the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, […]
(Reuters) VIENNA, June 10 – At least eight people were killed when a shooter opened fire at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and others were injured, Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported. Citing local police, Austrian state media including national broadcaster ORF said several people had been seriously injured, including students and […]
(Reuters) SEOUL/BEIJING, June 10 – South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday to work for substantive advances in economic ties and peace and security on the Korean peninsula, Lee’s office said. In their first phone call since Lee took office last week, the South Korean president told Xi he […]
BBC: The customs officers at Brussels Airport were stunned. They had opened crates in the back of a lorry expecting to find a tonne of medical ketamine. But somewhere on its journey, the white powder had been switched for salt. After zigzagging hundreds of miles across Europe, the contents of the consignment had been verified […]