BBC: One person has been killed and at least 24 others injured in a mass shooting in the US state of Ohio. The incident happened just after midnight local time (05:00 BST) in the city of Akron. Officers at the scene, near Kelly Street and 8th Avenue, discovered dozens of bullet casings and a gun, […]
BBC: More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around 33 people died in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. These included people involved in the general election, including polling officials, security guards […]
CNN: North Korea said it was stopping sending trash-filled balloons to South Korea after Seoul reported hundreds more airborne waste deliveries floating across the border. North Korea’s vice-defense minister Kim Kang Il said that the country will “temporarily halt dropping trash over the border,” after claiming to have sent a total of 15 tonnes of […]
Reuters: MANILA, June 3- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Manila on Monday and thanked him for his support and “clear position” on Russia’s invasion of its territories. The two leaders met at the Philippine presidential palace, after Zelenskiy made an unscheduled appearance at Asia’s biggest security conference in Singapore on the […]
Reuters: MEXICO CITY, June 2 – Claudia Sheinbaum is set to win a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. At least five exit polls showed Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor […]
BBC: The US government has “every expectation” that Israel will accept a ceasefire proposal that would begin with a six-week cessation of hostilities in Gaza if Hamas takes the deal, according to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. The three-part plan unveiled by President Joe Biden last week would also be a “surge” of humanitarian […]
CNN: Taiwan is pursuing independence incrementally and those who support it will “end up in self-destruction,” China’s new defense minister warned Sunday in a wide-ranging speech at a security summit in Singapore where the extent of regional tensions was on stark display. Minister of National Defense Adm. Dong Jun made the comments in a roughly 30-minute […]
ད་རིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༤ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ དཔལ་འཇིགས་མེད་སེངྒེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་ འབྲུག་བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་གྱི་ རྒྱལ་རབས་བཞི་པའི་ གསེར་ཁྲིར་ཕེབས་ཏེ་ མི་ལོ་ ༥༠ འཁོར་བའི་ དགའ་སྟོན་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་འདི་ཁར་ མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་གི་ མཛད་རྣམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལྟ་བུ་ལས་ བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་དྲན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ཆུ་ཐིག་ཙམ་ཅིག་ ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན།དེ་ཡང་ གནམ་ལོ་ཆུ་བྱི་ཟླཝ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༧༢ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༡ ལུ་ མི་དབང་ཡབ་རྗེ་དམ་པ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པ་མཆོག་ དགོངས་པ་རྫོགས་སོངཔ་ལས་ རབ་བྱུང་ ༡༦ པའི་ ཆུ་བྱི་ཟླཝ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༤ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༧༢ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ལུ་ བློན་འབངས་ཡོངས་ཀྱིས་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་རྫོང་གི་ གསེར་ཁྲི་ཁང་བཟང་ནང་ རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཚུལ་ཙམ་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཕྱག་དམ་ […]
BBC: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is under growing pressure after leading the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to its worst election result in 30 years, forcing it to share power. With almost all the votes in, the ANC is on 40% – down from 58% at the previous election. This is lower than the […]
BBC: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has warned China not to cross a red line in the South China Sea, where a standoff between the countries continues to escalate. If any Filipino died as a result of China’s wilful actions, he said on Friday, the Philippines would consider it as close to “an act of […]
NDTV: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa cancelled his “dearMoon” mission, which the project said was to have been the first private flight around the moon, the mission announced on Saturday. The team had originally aimed to make the circumlunar flight, with celebrities on board, by the end of last year but that became “unfeasible”, the mission […]
NDTV: Tens of thousands of LGBTQ South Koreans and their supporters gathered in central Seoul for annual Pride celebrations Saturday, despite the event’s traditional venue being banned by authorities for the second consecutive year. Same-sex marriage remains unrecognised in Asia’s fourth largest economy, and activists have long emphasised the need for legislation outlawing discrimination on […]