(Reuters) KYIV, Aug 21 – For Kyiv-area resident Olha Pavlovska, who huddles with her neighbours every week to discuss the often grim news from the front, Ukraine’s shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk region this month offered a rare moment of hope. “This was a very brave and important step … for keeping up morale in […]
བི་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ གི་ནུབ་མོར་ ཨི་རཱན་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་བཱཛ་ཅིག་ གང་རྐྱལ་སྦེ་ རྦོབ་རིལ་འགྱོ་མིའི་ནང་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ གནས་སྐོརཔ་ ༢༨ ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ གཞན་མི་ ༢༣ ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་སྦེ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མིའི་གྲས་ཁར་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ ༡༡ དང་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ ༡༧ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།ཐུག་རྐྱེན་དེ་ཡང་ ཨི་རཱན་གྱི་མངའ་སྡེ་ ཡཱཛ་ཟེར་སར་ བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེ་གིས་ འགོ་ཐོག་ཞིབ་དཔྱད་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཐུག་རྐྱེན་དེ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་གྱི་ བཀག་འཕྲུལ་ལུ་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནི་དེ་གིས་ ཨི་རཱན་གྱི་ དེ་ཤིར་ཏཱཕ་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་སྒོ་རའི་ གདོང་ཕྱོགས་ལུ་ལྷོདཔ་ད་ དེད་གཡོགཔ་གིས་ བཀག་འཛིན་འབད་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ འཁོར་ལམ་ལས་ རྦོབ་རིལ་ཏེ་ གང་རྐྱལ་སྦེ་ ཡར་སོང་ནུག་ཟེར་བཀོད་ནུག།གནས་སྐོརཔ་དེ་ཚུ་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ སིན་དུ་མངའ་སྡེ་ལས་ ཨི་རག་གི་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ ཀར་བ་ལ་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་གནས་ནང་ ཨར་བཱིན་ཟེར་མི་ ཤི་ཡའི་དུས་དྲན་བརྩི་སྲུང་ནང་ གྲལ་གཏོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་བསྐྱོད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་བསྒང་ […]
CNN — The world’s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media. Guinness World Records (GWR) also released a statement confirming her death at the age of 117 years 168 days, making her the eighth-oldest person with a verifiable age in history. “Maria passed away […]
BBC: Former President Barack Obama will return to the Democratic National Convention stage in his hometown of Chicago to deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, 20 years after his convention debut thrust him into the national spotlight. It’s a tricky moment for one of the party’s most popular figures. He will use his speech to […]
BBC: Sitting at an altitude of around 3,800m (12,467ft) is Thame, a small Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region. It is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers, including Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest along with explorer Edmund Hillary. But on 16 August, the village was engulfed by icy flood waters […]
(Reuters) ALAMEIN, Egypt, Aug 20 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed for progress towards a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal as he visited Egypt on Tuesday, but major areas of dispute are still to be resolved in talks planned for later this week. Blinken flew to Egypt from Tel Aviv, where he […]
(Reuters) KABUL, Aug 20 – The Taliban’s morality ministry has dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and have detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for “immoral acts” in the past year, officials said on Tuesday. The Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of […]
(Reuters) BERLIN, Aug 20 – A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its spread. “We can and must tackle mpox together,” said Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, in a […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, Aug 20 – More than 200 South Korean and U.S. fighter jets are due to fly around the clock for five days this week in what would mark the largest number of sorties flown in training by the allies, South Korea’s air force said on Tuesday. The drills are part of the annual […]
(Reuters) JIUPENG, Taiwan, Aug 20 – Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a sensitive test site on a remote part of the island’s southeastern coast. Democratically-governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has complained of stepped up […]
BBC: On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton spoke about how she broke one of America’s toughest glass ceilings by becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. “When a barrier falls for one of us, it clears the way for all of us,” she said, echoing […]
BBC: British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among the six people missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning. The 56m (183ft) vessel was carrying 22 people including British, American and Canadian nationals. Fifteen people were rescued, […]