ALJAZEERA: Tehran, Iran – A high-resolution Iranian-owned satellite has been launched into space from a base in Kazakhstan on board a Russian rocket, amid speculation about its uses. The remote-sensing Khayyam satellite, which Iran has said it wants to use for non-military purposes, was successfully launched on Tuesday, according to footage aired live by Iranian […]
Reuters: BAMAKO, Aug 9 – Militants killed 17 Malian soldiers and four civilians in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, the Malian army said. Nine soldiers were also reported missing and vehicles and equipment were destroyed, it said in a statement released late on Monday, adding that it suspected an Islamic State […]
བི་བི་སི། ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡའི་རྒྱལ་ས་ སེ་འཱུལ་གྱི་ ས་གནས་ཆ་ཤས་ཅིག་ནང་ འདྲེ་ཆར་ལུ་བརྟེན་པའི་ ཆུ་རུད་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་གྲངས་ ༨ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ གཞན་མི་ ༡༤ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༨ ཀྱི་ནུབ་མོར་ ཆུ་རུད་ཐོན་མི་དེ་གིས་ འཁོར་ལམ་ཚུ་ ཆུ་ནང་བྱིང་པའི་ཁར་ རེལ་ལི་འབབ་ཚུགས་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་འཁོད་དང་ ཉེ་འདབས་ཀྱི་ མངའ་སྡེ་ཚུ་གི་ནང་ཡང་ གནམ་གནག་དུང་དུང་ སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ས་གནས་ལ་ལོ་ཅིག་ནང་ དེ་བཟུམ་མའི་ ཆུ་རུད་ཐོན་མི་དེ་ མི་ལོ་ ༨༠ གི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ འགོ་དང་པ་ཨིནམ་ད་ གནམ་གཤིས་དབང་འཛིན་ཚུ་གིས་ ད་རུང་ཡང་ ཉིནམ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ར་ ཆརཔ་རྐྱབ་ནི་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས་ཟེར་ མཀོད་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
NDTV News: Taiwan held an artillery drill Tuesday simulating defence against an attack as its top diplomat accused Beijing of preparing to invade the island after days of massive Chinese war games. China launched its largest-ever air and sea exercises around Taiwan last week in a furious response to a visit by US House Speaker […]
ALJAZEERA News: The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza, with several members raising concerns amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian armed group, after three days of Israeli air raids on the territory. Speaking via video at the start of the meeting, UN […]
BBC News: At least seven people have died and nine others have been injured as flooding caused by torrential rain hit parts of South Korea’s capital Seoul. Heavy downpours on Monday night submerged roads, flooded metro stations and caused blackouts across the city and neighbouring provinces. Some areas received the highest rate of rainfall in […]
BBC News: A health official in New York State has told the BBC there could be hundreds or even thousands of undiagnosed cases of polio there. It follows an announcement last month that an unvaccinated man had been paralysed by the virus in Rockland County, New York. His case has been linked genetically to traces […]
BBC News: Russia has told the US it has “temporarily” suspended on-site inspections of its strategic nuclear weapons, under an arms control treaty known as New START. The Russian foreign ministry said the US was seeking advantages and had deprived Russia of the right to carry out inspections on US territory. It said US sanctions […]
ABC News: DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Sunday sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised better trade ties, investment and support for infrastructure development in the South Asian nation. China had used its influence in Myanmar to broker a November 2017 agreement […]
Reuters: BEIJING, Aug 8 – China’s defence ministry on Monday defended its shelving of military talks with the United States in protest against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei last week, warning that Washington must bear “serious consequences.” Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island as its own and responded […]
Reuters: Aug 8 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend. “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” Guterres told a news conference […]
BBC News: China says it is carrying out new military exercises in the Yellow and Bohai seas after a barrage of drills that encircled Taiwan in recent days. The initial exercises were triggered by Beijing’s fury at a visit to Taipei by the US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. Taiwan has accused China of practising for […]
