Al Jazeera: At least two people have been killed after clashes broke out between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo ahead of a looming deadline to integrate the SDF into Syria’s state institutions. A medical source told Al Jazeera that two civilians were killed and 11 others wounded after SDF forces […]
BBC: A top Amazon executive has said the US technology giant has blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents. North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities, Amazon’s chief security officer Stephen Schmidt said in a LinkedIn post. “Their objective is typically straightforward: get […]
BBC: India is home to one of the world’s most ambitious social programmes – a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) gave every rural household a legal right to demand up to 100 […]
Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region’s maritime infrastructure. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out “systematic” attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that the focus of the war “may have shifted towards Odesa”. President Volodymyr […]
BBC: The gold price has hit another record high, trading above $4,400 an ounce for the first time. The price of the precious metal has risen on expectations the US central bank will cut interest rates further next year, analysts said. Gold started the year worth $2,600 an ounce, but geopolitical tensions, the Trump tariffs […]
BBC: Protests have erupted across northern India after the Supreme Court redefined the Aravalli hills – one of the world’s oldest geological formations spanning the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat, and the capital, Delhi. Under the new definition, accepted by the court following federal government recommendations, an Aravalli hill is any landform rising at least […]
ABC: ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia has awarded its highest national honor to Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his visit to Riyadh, Pakistan’s military said Monday, underscoring deepening ties between the two countries, including cooperation on counterterrorism. Munir received the King Abdulaziz Medal of the Excellent Class on Sunday, months after Saudi Crown Prince […]
BBC: The suspected gunmen in the Bondi Beach attack threw explosives at the start of the deadly incident and had practised shooting weeks before, according to new court documents. They allege the pair “meticulously” planned the attack for several months and, two days prior to the shooting, visited Bondi for reconnaissance. Fifteen people were killed […]
BBC: Officials from Thailand and Cambodia will meet next week to discuss the possibility of reviving a ceasefire, Thailand’s foreign minister said, as deadly border clashes entered a third week. Both countries had signed a ceasefire earlier in July, brokered by US President Donald Trump. But fighting broke out again earlier this month – which […]
BBC: A Russian general has been killed in an explosion in Moscow, officials have said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated. Sarvarov was the head of the armed forces’ operational training department, the committee added. It said one theory being […]