BBC: Kamala Harris entered Tuesday’s night’s presidential debate with a clear plan: dominate and destabilise Donald Trump. It started with her opening power move, when she strode across the compact stage in Philadelphia to demand a handshake. This was her seizing the initiative, and a telling sign that America’s surprise presidential candidate was keen to […]
BBC: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on one of the schools it runs in central Gaza. Unrwa said it was “the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident” since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas […]
BBC: The death toll of Typhoon Yagi has risen to 152 in Vietnam, according to government estimates, as one of the country’s largest rivers reaches its highest level in two decades, flooding the streets of Hanoi. By Wednesday, flood waters from the swollen Red River reached a metre high in parts of the capital, forcing […]
(Reuters) MOSCOW, Sept 11 – Russian forces have begun a significant counter-offensive against Ukrainian troops who smashed their way into western Russia last month, and have taken some territory back, pro-Moscow war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said. Ukraine on Aug. 6 launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two, bursting […]
(Reuters) PHILADELPHIA, Sept 10- Democratic candidate Kamala Harris put her Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive in a combative presidential debate on Tuesday with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions and his myriad legal woes. A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, controlled the debate from the start, getting under her rival’s skin […]
CNN — Dozens of people have been arrested after clashes between police and protesters outside a major defense expo in Australia on Wednesday, during which police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators and both sides accused the other of violence. Video from the scene showed protesters setting fire to trash cans and throwing projectiles at officers as […]
BBC: President Joe Biden has hinted at Washington lifting restrictions on Ukraine using US long-range missilesagainst Russia. If granted, it would fulfil repeated requests by Ukraine to loosen the limits on US-supplied weapons,which officials have said has left them fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion with their hands tied. Russia is yet to comment but President […]
BBC: At least 82 people have now died in Vietnam as a super typhoon which hit on Saturday continues to bring heavy rainfall, landslides and flooding. Thousands of people were seen stranded on rooftops in some northern provinces, while others posted desperate pleas for help on social media on Tuesday. Typhoon Yagi – Vietnam’s most […]
BBC: At least 13 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike in the designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, a local hospital says. Residents said three missiles hit a tented camp crowded with displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, south-west of the city of Khan Younis, leaving 7m-deep (23ft) craters. The Israeli military said its […]
(Reuters) CAIRO, Sept 10 – Israeli missiles set ablaze a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, killing or wounding 65 people, the enclave’s civil emergency service said on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military called a strike on a Hamas command centre. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the number of fatalities […]
(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Pakistani police detained several lawmakers and leaders of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in raids a day after it held a major rally in the capital to demand his release, the party and police said on Tuesday. The 71-year-old former cricket star has been in jail for more than a […]
BBC: Voters in the US go to the polls on 5 November to elect their next president. The election was initially a rematch of 2020 but it was upended in July when President Joe Biden ended his campaign and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris. The big question now is – will the result mean a second […]