Reuters: ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 6 – The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said on Tuesday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir. Council members were briefed on the situation in the region and told of intelligence indicating […]
Reuters: KATHMANDU, May 6 – An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children’s cancer programme, officials said on Tuesday, the second death in the Himalayan nation’s climbing season that began in March. The world’s fifth-highest mountain, Makalu’s peak is 8,463 m (28,000 ft) high, […]
སི་ཨེན་ཨེན། འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ བདག་སྐྱོང་འོག་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་ ཀཤ་མིར་མངའ་སྡེའི་ནང་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་ཚུ་ དམར་བསད་འབད་བ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ རྒྱ་གར་དང་ པཱ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་བར་ན་ རྩོད་རྙོགས་ཐོན་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུའི་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ པཱ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་ལུ་ འཕུར་འགྲུལ་འབད་ནི་ལས་ བཀག་དམ་འབད་ནུག།དེ་ཡང་ ཕ་རཱནཛ་གིས་ གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་མི་ཅིག་ནང་ བཀོད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྒྱ་གར་དང་ པཱ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ རྩོད་རྙོགས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཕ་རཱནཛ་གི་ རྒྱལ་དར་འབག་མི་ གནམ་གྲུ་ཚུ་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ མཁའ་དབྱིངས་ལས་ འཕུར་འགྲུལ་འབད་ནི་དེ་ བཀག་དམ་འབད་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།དེ་བཟུམ་མའི་ བཀག་དམ་འབད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༤ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༢ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་ཀཤ་མིར་གྱི་ གངས་རི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ པ་ཧཱལ་གམ་ལུ་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ གཡིབ་དམག་ཚུ་གིས་ བལྟ་བཤལཔ་ ༢༦ དམར་བསད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ཉེན་ཁ་ཅན་ཅིག་ལུ་ འགྱུར་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་བཀོད་ནུག།དེ་མ་ཚད་ ཁྱིམ་མཚེས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ རྒྱ་གར་དང་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་གིས་ རྩོད་རྙོགས་དེ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕན་ཚུན་གྱི་ གནམ་གྲུ་ཚུ་ མཁའ་དབྱིངས་ཕན་ཚུན་ལས་ འཕུར་འགྲུལ་འབད་མ་ཆོག་པའི་ བཀག་དམ་ཡང་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུའི་ གནད་སྡུད་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ བི་རི་ཊིཤ་གི་ […]
BBC: Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row. All four of the capital’s major airports have been closed temporarily to ensure safety, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said on Telegram. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on social media at least 19 Ukrainian drones had been […]
BBC: The pace at 64-year-old Thirunavkarsu’s spinning mill in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state has noticeably slowed down. The viscose yarn – a popular material that goes into making woven garments – he produces, now sits in storage, as orders from local factories have dropped nearly 40% in the last month. That’s because Chinese import […]
BBC: Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan to expand its military offensive against Hamas which includes the “capture” of Gaza and the holding of its territory, according to an Israeli official. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cabinet had decided on a “forceful operation” to destroy Hamas and rescue its remaining hostages, and that […]
Reuters: May 4 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday and offered Russia’s help in resolving tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the Foreign Ministry said. “Particular attention was paid to the significant rise in tension between New Delhi and Islamabad,” the ministry said in a statement, referring […]
BBC: At least nine people have died and 70 have been hospitalised after strong winds caused four tourist boats to capsize in southwestern China. Sudden strong winds caused the boats to capsize in a river in Qianxi city in Guizhou on Sunday, leading 84 people to fall into the water, according to state media reports. […]
BBC: Last year was the deadliest for Russian forces since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine: at least 45,287 people were killed. This is almost three times more than in the first year of the invasion and significantly exceeds the losses of 2023, when the longest and deadliest battle of the war was […]
ABC: MANILA, Philippines — A vehicle crashed into an entrance at Manila’s airport on Sunday morning, leaving two people dead including a 4-year-old girl, according to the Philippine Red Cross. The other victim was an adult male, the humanitarian group said in a statement. Other people were injured in the incident and the driver of the […]
Reuters: KYIV, May 4 – A Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s capital injured at least 11 people, including two children, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Sunday for a real ceasefire lasting at least a month in the more than three-year-old war. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week declared a three-day ceasefire for May 8-10 to mark the 80th […]