BBC News: The case of a former political adviser accused of raping a colleague inside Australia’s Parliament House has been aborted after juror “misconduct”. Bruce Lehrmann, 27, denies sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins on a government minister’s sofa after a night out in March 2019. He says they did not have sex at all. But after […]
BBC News: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being urged to raise UK defence spending by a key eastern European ally. Estonia, which borders Russia, has hosted British troops on rotation for years. Its foreign minister Urmas Reinsalu told the BBC it was “vital” all Nato countries spend 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. […]
ABC News: LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held the first meeting of his new Cabinet before facing the opposition in Parliament on Wednesday for the first time as leader. Sunak took office on Tuesday and appointed a government mixing allies with experienced ministers from the governments of his two immediate predecessors, Boris Johnson […]
BBC News: Vladimir Putin has overseen annual nuclear exercises by Russia’s strategic nuclear forces at a time of heightened tensions with the West over his eight-month-long war in Ukraine. Ballistic and cruise missiles were launched in the Far East and Arctic, the Kremlin said. The US was told about the drill under the terms of […]
ABC News: KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing military production delays and mounting losses, urged his government Tuesday to cut through bureaucracy to crank out enough weapons and supplies to feed the war in Ukraine, where a Western-armed Ukrainian counteroffensive has set back Russia’s forces. In other developments, Ukrainian authorities asked citizens not […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Oct 26 – The United States, Japan and South Korea warned on Wednesday that an “unparalleled” scale of response would be warranted if North Korea conducts a seventh nuclear bomb test. Washington and its allies believe North Korea could be about to resume nuclear bomb testing for the first time since 2017. “We […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Oct 26 – China is likely to ramp up its diplomatic “attacks” on Taiwan following last week’s twice-a-decade congress, including snatching more of the island’s few remaining diplomatic allies, Taiwan’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. China’s ruling Communist Party wrapped up its congress on Saturday, cementing Chinese President Xi Jinping’s grip on power. […]
ཨེ་བི་སི། རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ མི་བརྒྱུད་ཨིན་མི་ རི་ཤི་སུ་ནག་དེ་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ བི་རི་ཊེན་གྱི་ བློན་ཆེན་ ༣ པ་སྦེ་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དེ་ནང་ མ་དངུལ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ཚུ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ གནས་སྟངས་དེ་ ཉེན་ཁ་ཅན་ཅིག་ལུ་ གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་སེར་ས་ཡ་ལས་ བཅད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཟའ་འཐུང་དང་ ནུས་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་ཁྲལ་ཚུ་ བཏབ་ནི་ལུ་ཡང་ དཀའ་ངལ་སྦོམ་ ཐོན་ཏེ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ བསལ་ནི་གི་ འགན་ཁུར་འཁྲིཝ་ཨིན་པས།སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༥ ལུ་ རི་ཤི་སུ་ནག་དེ་ བ་ཀིང་ཧམ་ ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་པོ་ཅཱལཛ་ ༣ པའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་ བཅར་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྒྱལཔོ་མཆོག་གིས་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་འབད་མི་ ཀཱན་སར་བེ་ཊིབ་ སྲིད་ཚོགསཀྱི་ འགོ་ཁྲིད་གསརཔ་དེ་གིས་ ལམ་ལུགས་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ གཞུང་བཙུགས་དགོ་པའི་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་གནང་ནུག།དེ་གི་ཧེ་མར་ ཨམ་ལིཟ་ཊཱཛ་གི་ དུས་ཡུན་ཐུང་ཀུ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་ གོ་གནས་འཆང་བའི་ དུས་སྐབས་ནང་ […]
BBC News: Rishi Sunak has appointed his team of top ministers, on his first day as the UK’s prime minister. In a key speech outside No 10, he said he wanted to bring the country and party together, promising economic stability and confidence. The cabinet reshuffle saw some predictable choices, and some that have surprised […]
ABC News: DHAKA, Bangladesh — A tropical storm that lashed Bangladesh left at least 24 people dead and about 8 million without power across the delta nation, officials and news reports said Tuesday. The government said about 10,000 homes were damaged and more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of crops were destroyed. Thousands of fishing […]
ABC News: LONDON — Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year on Tuesday, tasked with taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions struggling to pay their food and energy bills. Sunak, who is the U.K.’s first leader of color, met King Charles III […]
