Reuters: TOKYO, Jan 11 – Japan lodged a protest to China over the suspension of visas for Japanese citizens and asked that it overturn the action, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday. “It is regrettable that China unilaterally has taken visa suspension action for reasons other than steps for the coronavirus,” Matsuno told […]
BBC News: Peru’s top prosecutor has launched an inquiry into President Dina Boluarte and key ministers over weeks of clashes that have left dozens of people dead. The officials are being investigated on charges of “genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries”. Violence erupted after ex-President Pedro Castillo was arrested in December for trying to dissolve […]
BBC News: Ukrainian troops will receive training on the Patriot missile system in the US state of Oklahoma, American officials have said. Around 90 to 100 soldiers will arrive from Ukraine at base Fort Sill as soon as next week, the Pentagon confirmed. The training at Fort Sill, where US artillery troops also train, is […]
BBC News: The revelation that aides to Joe Biden discovered a handful of classified documents as they were moving boxes out of the president’s Washington-based think tank offices has the potential to be a political headache. It could also place him in legal jeopardy, although too little information is known about the documents – which […]
ABC News: KATHMADU, Nepal — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister secured a decisive vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday with support from both his seven-party coalition and the opposition. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal received the support of 268 of the 270 members who were present in the House of Representatives, the lower house […]
Reuters: Jan 10 – The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, a day after heightened flood and mudslide risks prompted thousands of evacuations and caused widespread power outages. Rainfall throughout the day was expected to be “heavy to excessive” across the state, especially in southern California, as winds […]
Reuters: BEIJING, Jan 10 – China suspended issuing short-term visas in South Korea and Japan on Tuesday, after announcing it would retaliate against countries that required negative COVID-19 tests from Chinese travellers. China has ditched mandatory quarantines for arrivals and allowed travel to resume across its border with Hong Kong since Sunday, removing the last […]
BBCNews: Russia is “likely” to now be in control most of the salt-mining town of Soledar in Ukraine’s east after a months-long battle with Ukrainian forces, the UK’s Ministry of Defence says. Russian troops and the mercenary Wagner Group have made advances in the past four days, the UK says. Soledar is near Bakhmut, where […]
Reuters: KYIV/SIVERSK, Ukraine, Jan 10 – Russia has stepped up a powerful assault on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said, forcing Ukrainian troops to repel waves of attacks led by the Wagner contract militia around the salt mining town and nearby fronts. Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies a few miles from […]
BBC News: Human action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says. An international agreement in 1987 to stop using the harmful chemicals that were damaging the layer has been successful, the major assessment says. The ozone layer is a thin part of the […]