(Reuters) DAMASCUS, Aug 18 – Eight Israeli airstrikes hit an airbase in northwestern Syria early on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, in what the U.S. envoy for the region called an “unnecessary escalation”. Syria state-run Ekhbariya, citing a military source, said the attack struck the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur base, while […]
BBC: An activist in India’s eastern Jharkhand state has ended a 16-day hunger strike after the government agreed to protesters’ demands to cancel a controversial recruitment exam. However, the protesters say they will not call off demonstrations until India’s premier investigative agency begins probing alleged malpractices in other recruitment exams. Devendra Nath Mahto ended his […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, Aug 18 – U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Xavier Brunson visited South Korea’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday to discuss plans to scale back the joint Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise, according to media reports. The ministry and USFK did not immediately comment, but the reports came after U.S. President Donald Trump instructed the […]
(Reuters) Aug 18 – A Russian missile attack killed 10 people on Tuesday in a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said. “This morning the Russians launched a brutal attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region – a location with a post office and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings,” President […]
(Reuters) DUBAI, Aug 18 – The Strait of Hormuz will remain shut until the U.S. meets the conditions of an interim deal signed with Iran in June, the top Iranian negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said in comments published by state media on Tuesday. These conditions include the U.S. lifting its blockade of Iranian ports, lifting […]
Al Jazeera: Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of Imran Khan, former prime minister and founder of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, from Rawalpindi’s Adiala prison to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital within two days, accepting a demand his party had been making for months. Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan’s lawyers, […]
𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 The People’s Democratic Party wishes to inform the public that the Hon’ble Speaker of the National Assembly, Lungten Dorji, has resigned from the Office of the Speaker. His Majesty The Druk Gyalpo has graciously accepted his resignation. The resignation was submitted in view of internal Party matters that require his attention and leadership. […]
BBC: Russia has accused the UK of “deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis” following confirmation that British-made drones had been used in strikes on targets in Russia. “In doing so, the United Kingdom is acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks,” the Russian Embassy to the […]
BBC: A student at a Catholic junior high school in the southern Philippines was shot dead by a fellow student, who later took his own life, a local official said on Tuesday. The alleged shooter managed to sneak in a .45-calibre pistol into a classroom at the school in Zamboanga City, Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso […]
BBC: President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman – a US ally – if it “gets in the way” of his administration’s own talks with Iran, Fox News reports. The US and Oman have been negotiating separately with Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that is vital to the global economy. […]
