Al Jazeera: Myanmar’s Nobel laureate and deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to a further three years in prison by a court in the military-ruled nation, bringing her combined jail term to 26 years. Charged with accepting bribes, a court on Wednesday found the 77-year-old guilty on two counts of corruption and […]
ABC News: TOKYO — The Japanese space agency said a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff Wednesday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its Epsilon-6 rocket experienced an unidentified “abnormality” and its flight […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, Oct 12 – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia over the explosion that damaged the Crimea Bridge last Saturday, Interfax reported. The FSB said the explosion was organised by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, […]
BBC News: At least 33 people have died in floods and landslides across western Nepal in the past week, local media reported. The worst of the monsoon rains hit Karnali province in the north-west, where thousands of residents were evacuated, officials said. Hundreds of homes have been damaged in the avalanches and flooding. At least […]
རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ལུ་ པདྨ་ལྟེ་བའི་ཡིག་ཚང་ནང་ འཛམ་གླིང་སེམས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་གྱི་ ཉིནམ་བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་སར་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ལུ་ བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དུས་ཅི་ འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ནང་ སེམས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་དང་ ཕན་བདེ་ཟེར་མི་ བརྗོད་དོན་ཐོག་ལུ་ བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། དེ་བསྒང་ པདྨ་ལྟེ་བའི་ ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་འཆར་སྒོ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་དང་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལུ་ ལང་ཤོར་ཐལ་མི་ཚུ་ སྨན་ཁང་ནང་བཞག་སྟེ་ སྨན་བཅོས་དང་ གཅེས་སྐྱོང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ དེ་ལས་ པདྨའི་གྲོགས་རམ་ བརྒྱུད་འབྲེལ་ཞབས་ཏོག་དང་ དབང་བཙོང་བཀག་ཐབས་ཀྱི་ ལམ་སྟོན་ཚུ་ཡོད་མི་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་འཆར་སྒོ་དང་ མི་སྡེའི་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་ལག་ལེན་ཚུ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ནུག། ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་འཆར་སྒོ་དང་ མི་སྡེ་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ རྒྱུན་ལམ་དེ་གིས་ བརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༠༡༠ དང་ ༡༡༢ ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ བསླབ་བྱའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་དང་ སེམས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་གྱི་ ཞབས་ཏོག་དང་ བརྡ་དོན་ […]
Reuters: KYIV, Oct 12 – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he doubted whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon as Ukraine pleaded for a rapid increase in Western military aid to defend against missile strikes on its cities. The Russian president, under domestic pressure to ramp up the war […]
Reuters: SYDNEY, Oct 12 – Residents in Australia’s southeast were warned on Wednesday to prepare for an intense weather system which could bring damaging winds and heavy rains over the next two days. Victoria, home to Melbourne, is expected to be the worst-hit state with authorities urging residents in remote regional areas to stock essential […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Oct 11 – The stepped up intensity of Chinese naval patrols near Taiwan since August is putting a “heavy burden” on the island’s aging frigate fleet, which is struggling to maintain combat readiness, the Taiwanese defence ministry said on Tuesday. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, carried out war […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Oct 10 – As Japan throws open its doors to visitors this week after more than two years of pandemic isolation, hopes for a tourism boom face tough headwinds amid shuttered shops and a shortage of hospitality workers. From Tuesday, Japan will reinstate visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world’s […]
BBC News: Russia has been widely condemned after bombarding cities across Ukraine, including launching missile strikes on the centre of Kyiv for the first time. The US said the “brutal” attacks had hit non-military targets, including a university and children’s playground, and promised ongoing military aid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply […]