BBC News: China may be easing some of its severe anti-Covid restrictions but its draconian pandemic policies have driven many citizens to seek a better future elsewhere – whatever the risks in getting there. Three days into their trek through a Central American rainforest, some 9,300 miles (15,000 kilometres) away from home, the Sun family […]
BBC News: President Joe Biden has told President Volodymyr Zelensky the US will stick by Ukraine “for as long as it takes” in its war with Russia. “You will never stand alone,” Mr Biden told Mr Zelensky as he visited the White House on his first overseas trip since the Russian invasion began. Mr Biden […]
Reuters: KABUL, Dec 21 – Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women was announced on Tuesday evening in a letter to universities from the higher education ministry, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and […]
NDTV News: Millions of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires Tuesday to celebrate Argentina’s World Cup title, disrupting a planned parade route and forcing Lionel Messi and his teammates to abandon an open-top bus to instead fly over the city in helicopters. The football-crazed country has been overwhelmed with jubilant celebrations since Sunday […]
BBC News: Two people have died and tens of thousands of households were left without power after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked northern California. The tremor, 215 miles (350km) north of San Francisco, has caused widespread damage to roadways. “Anything that was on the walls broke off the walls,” said JB Mathers, a resident of […]
BBC News: A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. Furchner, one of the few women to be […]
BBC News: India’s foreign minister has said that the country has scaled up troop deployment along a disputed border with China to an unprecedented level. S Jaishankar added that India wouldn’t let China “unilaterally change” the status quo at the border. His comments came days after Indian and Chinese forces clashed in a disputed area […]
BBC News: Newly crowned champions Argentina have arrived in Buenos Aires following their victory over France in the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar. Led by captain Lionel Messi, the players were given a heroes’ welcome by huge crowds in the early hours of the morning, as they waved and cheered from an open-top bus […]
Reuters: BANG SAPHAN, Thailand, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Navy ships and rescue teams searched waters off central Thailand on Tuesday in a race against the clock to locate 30 missing marines, who abandoned a warship that sank at the weekend in choppy waters. The HTMS Sukhothai warship, a U.S.-made corvette in use since 1987, suffered […]