ABC News: TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan won’t back down in the face of “aggressive threats” from China, the president of the self-governing island democracy Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, comparing growing pressure from Beijing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tsai’s comments follow the conclusion of the twice-a-decade congress of China’s Communist Party at which it upped […]
Reuters: LONDON, Oct 24 – Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday, an achievement that many, particularly in the Asian community, held up as a cultural milestone standing out above the economic chaos and political tumult. News that a Hindu son of Indian immigrants had won the race […]
Reuters: BERLIN, Oct 25 – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit, his first since Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24, his office said in a statement. Steinmeier said he was looking forward to meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “My message to the people of Ukraine is: You […]
Reuters: DHAKA, Oct 25 – A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees and disrupting road, power and communication links, officials said. Mass evacuations before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall on the west coast helped save lives but the full extent of the casualties and damage […]
BBC News: The UN’s nuclear watchdog says it will send a team to inspect two sites in Ukraine at the government’s request. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors will examine the sites for signs of “undeclared nuclear activities”, officials said. The location of the facilities was not announced, but Director-General Rafael Grossi said that one […]
BBC News: Rishi Sunak’s rise to power has attracted attention in India – and not just because he is the first British Asian prime minister. His wife Akshata Murty is the daughter of Indian billionaire Narayana Murthy, one of the country’s best known businessmen who has been dubbed the Bill Gates of India. An heiress […]
ABC News: Rishi Sunak has been chosen as the new U.K. prime minister less than a week after Liz Truss stepped down from the position after just six weeks in office. Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury 2019 to 2020 and a member of Parliament from Richmond. The 42-year-old is the first person of […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, Oct 24 – Russian military Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and British Chief of Defence Staff Tony Radakin spoke by phone on Monday to discuss what Moscow called the possibility that Ukraine could use a “dirty bomb”, the Russian defence ministry said. It gave no further details of the call, which followed […]
Reuters: KYIV, Oct 24 – Western countries accused Russia on Monday of plotting to use a threat of a bomb laced with nuclear material as a pretext for escalation in Ukraine, as Moscow evacuated civilians from a southern city in anticipation of a major battle. With Ukrainian forces advancing into Russian-occupied Kherson province, Russian Defence […]
BBC News: An air raid targeting one of Myanmar’s biggest ethnic insurgent groups has killed at least 50 people and injured about 100, reports say. The death toll was given to the BBC by Colonel Naw Bu, spokesman of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Eyewitnesses in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, say aircraft dropped three bombs […]
BBC News: An investigation has begun in Kenya after well-known Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead by police at a roadblock on Sunday. He was “fatally wounded” while he was a passenger in a moving vehicle after it failed to stop, according to a police statement. Mr Sharif was a critic of Pakistan’s military […]
