Reuters: Jan 31 – Chris Hipkins is New Zealand’s 41st prime minister, following the surprise resignation of the charismatic Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins was elected by the 64 Labour lawmakers to lead the governing Labour party before being sworn in by King Charles III’s representative, Governor General Cindy Kiro. Here are five facts on Hipkin’s life […]
BBC News: Canada’s province of British Columbia is starting a first-in-the-nation trial decriminalising small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. From Tuesday, adults can possess up to 2.5g of such drugs, as well as methamphetamine, fentanyl and morphine. Canada’s federal government granted the request by the west coast province to try out […]
BBC News: At least 59 people have been killed by a suicide bombing that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque is within the tightly guarded police headquarters area. “Terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said. The […]
BBC News: US President Joe Biden has ruled out sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, despite renewed calls from Ukrainian officials for air support. Asked by a reporter on Monday if the US would be providing the planes, Mr Biden replied simply “no”. His comment comes a day after Germany’s leader also ruled out sending […]
Reuters: Jan 30 – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern, its highest form of alert. The pandemic was likely in a “transition point” that continues to need careful management to “mitigate the potential negative consequences”, the agency added in a statement. […]
BBC News: At least 32 people have been killed and 150 injured in a bombing at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. A section of the building was destroyed and officials say people are buried under the rubble. Most of those who died were part of the police force, and it is believed […]
BBC News: Eight people have been killed and four others injured during a mass shooting at a birthday party in Gqeberha city in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. Two unidentified gunmen “randomly shot at guests” who were dancing and mingling at a house party in Kwazakhle township, police say. No arrests have been made but […]
BBC News: The bodies of two men caught in an avalanche on Sunday have been found in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Extensive searches took place after the incident, which happened on the east slope of Mount Hakuba Norikura. Japanese authorities have not revealed their identity but confirmed they were from a group of five foreign skiers. […]
BBC News: Footage of a traffic stop that has seen five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder shows them kicking and punching a motorist for several minutes as he cries out for his mother. Officers are seen beating Tyre Nichols, 29, in the videos from the 7 January arrest, with no signs of him resisting. […]
ལྷག་པ་གྲུབ་བ།དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༣ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ དོ་འགྲན་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ ད་ཚུན་གྱི་བར་ན་ རྫོང་ཁག་ ༢༠ ལས་ འདེམས་ངོ་ ༡༣༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་ནུག།དེ་ཡང་ འབྲུག་གི་བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་ ཚེ་གྲངས་གཏན་འཁེལ་ མ་བཟོ་ནི་དེ་གིས་ དང་འདོད་ཅན་གྱི་ འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ར་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ འདེམས་ངོའི་གྱངས་ཁ་དེ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་ནི་ཨིན་པས།རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ རྒེད་འོག་ ༢༠༥ ཡོད་ས་ལས་ ད་ཚུན་གྱི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ རྒེད་འོག་ ༩༦ ལས་ མོ་ ༨ དང་ ཕོ་ ༡༢༢ འབདཝ་ད་ འདེམས་ངོ་བསྡོམས་ ༡༣༠ དེཅིག་གིས་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་ནུག།འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་ཡང་ གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་ལས་ འདེམས་ངོ་ ༡༩ གིས་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་མི་དེ་ མཐོ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ད་ མགར་ས་དང་ བུམ་ཐང་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་ ༤ ལས་ […]
CNN News: Israeli police say at least seven people were killed and three were injured in a shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday amid high tensions in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Two people were wounded in a separate shooting attack on Saturday in the City of David area of Jerusalem, according to […]
