ABC News: SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarians on Sunday cast their ballots in a general election — the fourth in 18 months — marked by a raging war nearby, political instability, and economic hardships in the European Union’s poorest member. Surveys before the vote suggest that up to eight parties could muster the 4% threshold to […]
ABC News: LUCKNOW, India — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday. The wagon was carrying around 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby local Hindu temple Saturday night, said […]
Reuters: ISTANBUL, Oct 2 – Turkey said on Sunday it had “neutralised”, the term its defence ministry usually employs for killed, some 30 members of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in separate cross-border operations in Iraq and Syria. The defence ministry said the strikes involved 23 PKK members in a air raid in the […]
Reuters: KYIV, Oct 2- Ukraine on Sunday claimed full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv’s most significant battlefield gain in weeks, providing a potential staging post for further attacks to the east while heaping further pressure on the Kremlin. The stinging setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin came after he proclaimed the […]
BBC News: As Russia’s Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of swathes of sovereign Ukrainian territory, issues nuclear threats and mobilises hundreds of thousands of reservists, the response from Ukrainian forces on the eastern front is unchanged – they will fight for every last inch of soil. We travel to front-line positions in the city of […]
BBC News: It was meant to be one of the biggest #MeToo trials China had ever seen, set to play out on the other side of the world in the US state of Minnesota. The defendant was a 49-year-old billionaire who’s been called the “Jeff Bezos of China”. The accuser was a 25-year-old Chinese graduate […]
Reuters: KYIV, Oct 2 – Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons. The capture on Saturday came just a day after Putin proclaimed the […]
BBC News: At least 129 people have died in a stampede at an Indonesian football match, officials say, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. The stampede happened after police tear-gassed rioting supporters. About 180 were injured in the crush after Arema FC lost to bitter rivals Persebaya Surabaya in East Java. The country’s […]
BBC News: Russia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east. The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia’s defence ministry said. Recapturing Lyman is of strategic significance for Ukraine. The […]
BBC News: For Renee Smith and her paralysed, cancer-stricken husband Christopher, evacuation was not an option when Hurricane Ian came violently bearing down on their Florida home. “It would have taken an ambulance, a stretcher, and three grown men to move him,” she said of Christopher, who became paralysed just days before the hurricane as […]