BBC: Mongolian prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene has resigned after losing a confidence vote in parliament. The vote followed days of mass protests over corruption allegations – fuelled by social media posts about his son’s lavish birthday party and engagement. Oyun-Erdene, who took office in 2021, will remain as caretaker PM until a successor is appointed […]
BBC: At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average. Going into labour during a doctors’ strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was no expert help on hand once a complication emerged. Her baby’s […]
BBC: A man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators attending a march for Israeli hostages in Colorado on Sunday planned the attack for a year, investigators say. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, who is charged with a federal hate crime as well as state charges of attempted murder, assault and use of an explosive device, […]
BBC: “Who is responsible for this mess?” The question recently echoed across India’s financial capital Mumbai as thousands of residents once again found themselves stranded, soaked and frustrated. Heavy rains brought the city to a standstill, and this was before the monsoon had even begun in full swing. Roads turned into rivers, vehicles broke down mid-commute […]
BBC: A second round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have ended without a major breakthrough, and only a deal to swap more prisoners of war. Ukrainian negotiators said Russia had again rejected an “unconditional ceasefire” – a key demand by Kyiv and its allies in Europe and the US – but the […]
NDTV: Islamabad: Pakistan’s Punjab province may be looking ahead to a tough kharif (summer crops) sowing season amid a major water shortage in its Indus River system, comprising the Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab. Islamabad has said that two of its key damns– Tarbela on the Indus river and Mangla on the Jhelum river are running low on […]
Reuters: ISTANBUL, June 2 – Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday in Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022 with no sign they are any closer to an agreement, one day after Kyiv struck some of Moscow’s nuclear-capable bombers. The two sides are expected to discuss […]
BBC: The official death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. Another 500 people are still missing in the town in the central Niger State however, local official Musa Kimboku told the BBC that rescue efforts had ceased because authorities no longer […]
རོའི་ཊརཛ། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ དབང་འཛིན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འདས་པའི་ཉིན་ཞག་ ༤ གི་རིང་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ བྱང་ཤར་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ ཆུ་རུད་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ ཐོན་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་གྲངས་ ༣༤ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ནུག་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ གནམ་གཤིས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ད་རུང་ཡང་ ཆརཔ་ཤུགས་སྦེ་ རྐྱབ་ནི་ཨིན་པའི་ སྔོན་དཔག་འབད་ནུག། དེ་མ་ཚད་ ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་མངའ་སྡེ་ འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ལུ་ཡང་ བལྟ་བཤལཔ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ ༡ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ བཀག་བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ད་ མེ་གྷ་ལ་ཡ་མངའ་སྡེའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ཆུ་རུད་ཐོན་སར་ཡང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༥༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ དམག་མིའི་སྡེ་ཚན་ཚུ་ བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ ཁྱིམ་མཚེས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་ བྱང་ཤར་སིལ་ལེཊ་ རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ཡང་ ས་རུད་ཐོན་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ བཟའ་ཚང་གཅིག་གི་ འཐུས་མི་ ༤ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རི་ལྡན་རྫོང་ཁག་ རང་ག་མ་ཏི་དང་ བཱན་ཌར་བཱན་ དེ་ལས་ […]
Reuters: June 2 – Russian shelling and air attacks killed five people outside the southeastern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia, while a drone attack on the northeast region of Sumy injured at least six early on Monday, including two children, regional officials said. Ivan Fedorov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said three women died in […]
Reuters: BHUBANESWAR/DHAKA, June 2 – At least 34 people have died in India’s northeastern region after heavy floods caused landslides over the last four days, authorities and media said on Monday, and the weather department predicted more heavy rain. More than a thousand tourists trapped in the Himalayan state of Sikkim were being evacuated on […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, June 2 – South Koreans will go to the polls in a snap election on Tuesday, voting for a president to replace Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted from office in April after his brief martial law attempt sent shockwaves through the country. Here are key events from martial law to Yoon’s impeachment, […]