BBC: Does your house have a concrete roof or a thatched one? What is your main cereal? Do you have internet access – or just a basic mobile phone? And how many married couples live under your roof? These are among the 33 questions that more than a billion Indians will be asked as the […]
BBC: Two Indonesian peacekeepers were killed on Monday by a “roadside explosion” in southern Lebanon, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix has said, citing the findings of an initial investigation. In a separate statement, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said the explosion was of “unknown origin” and “destroyed” the peacekeepers’ vehicle near Bani […]
BBC: Israel’s defence minister has said a buffer zone will be set up inside southern Lebanon and that Israel will keep security control over a swathe of the territory even after the end of the current war against the armed group Hezbollah. Israel Katz said the area to be occupied would go up to the […]
BBC: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has called on allies to “step up” over the Strait of Hormuz, echoing earlier comments from President Donald Trump. On Tuesday morning, Trump wrote on social media to tell countries to “go get your own oil”, adding that “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like […]
BBC: A woman has been bitten by a wolf in a major shopping street in Hamburg, according to German authorities. The highly unusual attack took place in the bustling Grosse Bergstrasse in Hamburg Altona, near an inner-city Ikea store on Monday evening. The woman appears to have tried to lead the disoriented animal away from […]
BBC: The Chinese government is set to ban people from storing the cremated remains of their loved ones in empty apartments instead of paying for expensive cemetery plots. The new law will put an end to “bone ash apartments”, which have risen in popularity as spaces in cemeteries remain scarce. Low property prices in the […]
BBC: The death of an 11-year-old Iranian boy reportedly in an air strike while manning a security checkpoint alongside his father in Tehran has thrown focus on a new initiative to recruit children into the security services. Alireza Jafari’s mother Sadaf Monfared told the municipality-run newspaper Hamshahri that the pair had been helping Basij volunteer […]
(Reuters) March 31 – When Myanmar’s military ousted a democratically elected government in a dawn coup on February 1, 2021, Ye Win Oo led the contingent of troops that arrested Nobel Peace Prize winner and the country’s then leader Aung San Suu Kyi. On Monday, the 60-year-old general was appointed the commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s military, […]
BBC: Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first. The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, […]
NDTV: Four Israeli soldiers and two UN peacekeepers have been killed in southern Lebanon as Israel issued an “urgent” evacuation warning for several Lebanese villages in the eastern Beqaa Valley. The Israeli army confirmed the killing of four soldiers and said several others were injured as Israeli troops launched a major ground offensive in southern […]