BBC: More than 200 people, including 70 children, have been killed after a landslide caused a collapse in a mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government says. The landslide struck Rubaya, the country’s biggest source of coltan – an ore vital in the electronics industry – in the rebel-controlled […]
BBC: A flight chartered by the UK government to bring back some Britons stranded in the Middle East will depart “imminently”, a minister has said. Problems with getting passengers on board meant the plane, which had been due to leave Oman’s capital Muscat on Wednesday, stayed grounded. But just before 12:00 GMT on Thursday, Foreign […]
BBC: Millions of Nepalis have voted in the country’s first general election since violent youth-led protests toppled the government last September. Corruption, economic stagnation and inequality were the main issues in the vote. They sparked the uprising in which 77 people died, many of them protesters shot by police. The election represents a crossroads for […]
BBC: Some 800,000 Nepalis have left the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’s most populated region, for their hometowns over the past week to vote in tomorrow’s election, authorities say. About a tenth of Nepal’s 30 million population live in the Kathmandu Valley for work or school. More than 80% of the Himalayan nation’s land area is marked […]
BBC: A South Korean court has convicted a woman and her two doctors of murder for killing the baby she had delivered. The woman wanted to terminate the pregnancy at 36 weeks – but prosecutors said the baby was born alive and later killed. The surgeon who operated on her and the director of the […]
BBC: The UK government has chartered a repatriation flight from Oman to help British nationals who want to leave the Middle East, as attacks continue to take place across the region. The flight, the first specifically arranged by the UK government, is currently scheduled to leave Muscat International Airport on Wednesday night at 23:00 local […]
BBC: European allies are rushing warships and anti-drone defences to Cyprus after a British air base was hit on the island over the weekend. The small Eastern Mediterranean nation has found itself unexpectedly drawn into the aftermath of US-Israeli strikes on Iran. The UK has announced it is sending helicopters with counter-drone capabilities as well […]
BBC: Six American soldiers were killed in an Iranian strike against a military facility in Kuwait on Sunday, the US has confirmed. An “unmanned aircraft system” evaded air defences to hit a bunker in Port Shuaiba, the US military said. US Central Command originally said three soldiers died in the attack, but officials confirmed on […]
Reuters: DUBAI, March 3- The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency government personnel and their family members to leave the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several diplomatic missions across the region as tensions with Iran escalated. The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia was closed following a drone attack, with Americans in Jeddah, Riyadh […]
BBC: Oil prices made more gains on Tuesday after an Iranian official said his country will “set fire to anyone who tries to pass through” the Strait of Hormuz as the conflict between his country and the US and Israel continues In afternoon trade in Asia, Brent crude was around 3.2% higher at more than $80 (£59.67) […]