Reuters: BEIJING, July 10 – More than 130 people including tourists were trapped in Tibet near China’s rugged Himalayan border with Nepal on Wednesday after incessant rains unleashed landslides and floods, severing road links, according to Chinese state media. Many sections of a major highway leading to the remote Tibetan town of Zhentang were either […]
Reuters: CAIRO/GAZA, July 9 – Palestinian officials said an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza Strip killed more than two dozen people while advancing tanks in Gaza City forced residents to flee under fire as Israel on Tuesday stepped up an offensive that Hamas warned could jeopardise ceasefire talks. The airstrike hit the tents of displaced families outside […]
BBC: US President Joe Biden has welcomed Nato leaders to Washington DC with a forceful speech that seemed pitched to reassure allies overseas and closer to home that he can fight off an election challenge from Donald Trump. In brief but strongly delivered remarks at the opening of the summit, the president declared the military […]
BBC: A politician in South Korea is being criticised for making dangerous and unsubstantiated comments after linking a rise in male suicides to the increasingly “dominant” role of women in society. In a report, Seoul City councillor Kim Ki-duck argued women’s increased participation in the workforce over the years had made it harder for men […]
ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ རང་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ ལུ་ བདག་ཅག་གི་སྟོན་པ་ སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ ཝ་ར་ཎ་སི་ལུ་ བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་ དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ཅིག་སྦེ་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུཝ་ཨིན། དེ་ཡང་ སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ རང་ཟླ་ ༤ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༥ ལུ་ མངོན་པར་རྫོགས་པར་ སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ཟབ་བཞི་སྤྲོས་བྲལ་འོད་གསལ་དུས་མ་བྱས། །བདུད་རྩི་ལྟ་བུའི་ཆོས་ཤིག་ཁོ་བོས་བརྙེས། །སུ་ལ་བསྟན་ཀྱང་གོ་བར་མི་འདུག་པས། །མི་སྨྲ་ནགས་འདབས་ཉིད་དུ་གནས་པར་བྱ། །ཟེར་གསུང་བཅད་དེ་ བདུན་ཕྲག་ ༧ གྱི་རིང་ལུ་བཞུགས་ནུག། དེ་བསྒང་ ལྷ་ཚངས་པ་གིས་ ཚེ་སྔོན་གྱི་སྨོན་ལམ་ སེམས་ཁར་དྲན་ཏེ་ སྟོན་པ་བཞུགས་སར་ བཅར་ཞིནམ་ལས། སྨྲ་བའི་ཉི་མ་ཅི་སླད་དེ་རིང་བཏང་སྙོམས་བཞུགས། །དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ནི་བརྡུང་དུ་གསོལ། །དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དུང་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་འབུད་དུ་གསོལ། །ཟེར་ཞུ་སྟེ་ ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ བསྐོར་བར་བསྐུལ་རུང་ ཞལ་གྱིས་བཞེས་མ་བཏུབ་ལས་ ལྷ་ཚངས་པ་དེ་ ལོག་སྟེ་ར་ ལྷ་ཡུལ་ལུ་ བྱོན་སོངཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ལས་ ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་གྱིས་ སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ལུ་ ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཕུལ་ཏེ། ཟླ་བ་ཉ་བ་གཟའ་ལས་ཐར་བ་ལྟར། །ཐུབ་པ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ཐུགས་ནི་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ། །གཡུལ་ལས་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་བཞེངས་སུ་གསོལ། །འཇིག་རྟེན་མུན་པར་ཤེས་རབ་འོད་དབྱུང་གསོལ། […]
BBC: Five soldiers have been killed in an ambush by suspected militants in the Kathua district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, officials say. The soldiers in military vehicles came under fire from militants hiding in a nearby hill, according to initial reports. Reinforcements arrived quickly and a search operation was launched to track down the […]
Reuters: KYIV, July 8 – Russia blasted the main children’s hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months. Parents holding babies walked in the street outside the hospital, dazed and […]
CNN — Yet again, tens of thousands of people in Gaza are on the move, as the Israeli military issues fresh evacuation orders for a number of areas in Gaza City. Over the past 10 days, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued instructions for hundreds of thousands of people in Khan Younis in the south, Shujaya in […]
BBC: The White House has fought back against questions about Joe Biden’s mental fitness, with the US president telling anxious fellow Democrats it is time to end the criticism, and daring doubters in the party to challenge him. In a tense news conference, the president’s spokeswoman rejected suggestions that he might be suffering from an […]
BBC: At least four people have died after Hurricane Beryl slammed into south-east Texas, knocking out power for nearly three million people. Beryl hit Texas on Monday morning as a category one hurricane, but it has since been downgraded to a tropical depression. Officials warned of destructive winds, up to 15in (38cm) of rain and […]
BBC: A children’s hospital has been seriously damaged in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv by Russian strikes, as 33 people were killed across the country in an early morning barrage. At least 19 people were killed in Kyiv by the rare daytime attack, including two who died at the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital – Ukraine’s biggest paediatrics […]
BBC: US President Joe Biden has promised he will be “running this race to the end” of the November election, despite private calls from some Democrats to drop out. In a letter sent to congressional democrats on Monday, Mr Biden said he “wouldn’t be running again if I did not absolutely believe” that he could […]