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BBC: Tributes are pouring in for Indian actor Govardhan Asrani, who died this week at the age of 84. Asrani, popularly known by his last name, was suffering from a brief illness and died at a hospital in Mumbai city on Monday, his manager told BBC Hindi. Over a career spanning more than 50 years, […]
India’s capital Delhi woke up to a toxic haze as air quality worsened after the Hindu festival of Diwali, despite a court directive to use less-polluting crackers. People in the city and its suburbs burst crackers late into Monday night, defying the court’s order to use only ‘green’ fireworks for a limited period of time. […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Oct 21 – Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was set to become Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday after winning a critical vote in parliament’s lower house. An acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and an admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi received 237 votes in the lower house election to choose […]
Reuters: Oct 21 – The fragility of world security is unmatched since World War Two, requiring willingness to compromise to avoid a new global conflict, Russia’s RIA agency cited Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR intelligence service, as saying on Tuesday. “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World […]
ABC: TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament is set to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner that would pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichi will replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum […]
BBC: She’s the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going. Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft – but despite her remarkable achievements, not everyone will know her name. Now a feature-length documentary called Spacewoman, which chronicles her trailblazing career, looks set to change […]
BBC: South Korean police said they would seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media report. One of the woman’s neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window. The […]
BBC: Parts of the White House’s East Wing have been demolished, as construction begins on US President Donald Trump’s new ballroom. Construction crews on Monday tore down massive chunks of a covered entryway and windows in the East Wing, which Trump said is being “fully modernised”. The president previously said that his $250m (£186m) White […]
Reuters: CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Oct 20 – Israeli fire killed three people near a ceasefire line in Gaza on Monday, medics said, with U.S. envoys expected in Israel to try to push forward the fragile truce that faced its gravest test so far over the weekend. A Palestinian official close to ceasefire talks said efforts by Arab mediators and […]
BBC: The Nigerian police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had gathered in the capital, Abuja, over the continued detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters, led by activist and publisher of the Sahara Reporters news site, Omoyele Sowore, want the immediate release of Kanu, who is on trial on terrorism charges […]