BBC: Seven people have been killed and 11 others injured after a drone hit a passenger bus travelling through a Russia-controlled part of Ukraine, an official said. Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed leader of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, said the bus was struck in the early hours of Wednesday as it was travelling between Moscow and […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, June 3- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be released from the remainder of his prison sentence under a royal pardon, the country’s justice minister told reporters on Wednesday. Thaksin, who was released on parole last month after serving eight months in prison, had just over three months remaining on […]
(Reuters) DUBAI, June 3 – An Iranian drone and missile attack struck Kuwait’s international airport early on Wednesday, causing injuries and forcing authorities to divert flights, Kuwait’s state news agency reported. The attack caused “severe damage” to the airport’s T1 building, the report said, citing the General Civil Aviation Authority. The U.S. military earlier said two Iranian […]
བི་བི་སི།སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢ ལུ་ དྲོ་པ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ར་ཤི་ཡ་གིས་ མཁའ་དམག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཌཱོན་དང་ མི་ཛ་ཡེལ་ཚུ་གི་ཐོག་ལས་ ཡུ་ཀེ་རེན་གྱི་ ས་གནས་ཁག་ལུ་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་ཏེ་ མི་གྲངས་ ༢༡ དེ་ཅིག་ དམར་བསད་འབད་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ མཁྱེན་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་དོན་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་དངུལ་ཁང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསར་ཤོག་གི་ རྩིས་ཁྲ་ཨང་ ༡༠༠༩༡༥༣༣༤ ཅན་མར་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ ༥༠༠ བཙུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་གནང་ཟེར་ ཞུ་ནི་དང་། བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
BBC: The US military says it has launched “self-defense” strikes on Iran and shot down ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries. The strikes on Qeshm Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, were “in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East”, US Central Command (Centcom) said. Iran said it […]
BBC: The Trump administration has abandoned plans to create a $1.8bn (£1.3bn) fund to compensate individuals who claim they were unfairly targeted or investigated by the government, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. “We’re not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche told lawmakers on Tuesday. The proposed “anti-weaponisation” fundwas announced to settle a lawsuit […]
BBC: If Vladimir Putin’s Russia had an official slogan, what would it be? “Russia is what it is, and we’re not ashamed of showing it,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once told me in an interview. That fits. But I recently heard an updated version from veteran pop and folk singer Nadezhda Babkina. After receiving an […]
BBC: Israel continued its attacks in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, but did not strike Beirut following a partial ceasefire agreement with the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah. Lebanon said that, under an agreement announced by US President Donald Trump late on Monday, Israeli forces would not bomb the capital in exchange for Hezbollah not attacking Israel. […]
BBC: A Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 18 people across Ukraine overnight, including two children, marking one of Moscow’s largest assaults in recent months. An eight-year-old boy and a woman pulled from the rubble of an apartment block were among 12 people killed in Dnipro, regional officials said. In the capital Kyiv, […]
BBC: Two people have been shot dead in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki amid protests against US plans to establish an Ebola isolation centre at a military base nearby, the BBC has learnt. One of the victims was shot in an area close to the Laikipia Airbase where a demonstration was taking place. He […]
BBC: Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing, who is in India on a five-day visit, has held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, focusing on areas including trade, connectivity, border security and defence. This is his first visit abroad since becoming president earlier this year, and it is being closely watched as a sign of how […]
BBC: Six people were killed in the US state of Iowa after a series of shootings that appeared to stem from a domestic dispute, police said. The suspected shooter also was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Muscatine Police Department. The victims are believed to be family members of the suspect, […]
