BBC: A popular South African radio and club DJ has been shot dead in the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, sending shockwaves across the nation grappling with entrenched crime. Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was gunned down in the city centre on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the 40-year-old media personality was approached by three […]
BBC: On a recent winter morning in central India’s Panna, a diamond mining region, two childhood friends made a discovery that they think could change their lives forever. Satish Khatik and Sajid Mohammed stumbled upon a large, glistening rock on a plot of land they had leased just weeks earlier. When they took the stone […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, Dec 17 – With general elections just months away and its billionaire patriarch in prison, Thailand’s embattled Pheu Thai party is turning to another member of the divisive Shinawatra family with little experience in politics to help mount a comeback. Yodchanan Wongsawat, 46, the nephew and son of former prime ministers, is Pheu […]
(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 – Pakistan’s most powerful military chief in decades faces the toughest test of his newly amassed powers as Washington pushes Islamabad to contribute troops to the Gaza stabilisation force, a move analysts say could spark domestic backlash. Field Marshal Asim Munir is expected to fly to Washington to meet President Donald Trump in the […]
BBC: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday what he called a “blockade” of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers, ratcheting up American pressure on the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his social media platform. […]
BBC: Police have released another image of a person of interest in a mass shooting at Brown University, as they enter the fourth day of a manhunt. Students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov were killed on Saturday when a figure dressed in black opened fire in a lecture hall at the Ivy League university […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, Dec 16 – Thailand is working out how to repatriate up to 6,000 citizens unable to return home through a major border crossing in Cambodia closed as fighting along the contested border extended into a second week, authorities said on Tuesday. The militaries of the Southeast Asian neighbours are clashing at several locations […]
Al Jazeera: The United States has said it killed eight people in new attacks on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, days after the US military seized a Venezuelan oil tanker amid Washington’s continuing military buildup in Latin America. In a post on social media, the US Military Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said that “lethal kinetic […]
BBC: India’s anti-terrorism agency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), has charged two Pakistan-based militant groups and six people in the attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir this April, that left 26 people dead. The massacre in the tourist town of Pahalgam brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war. India blamed Pakistan for the attacks […]
BBC: Flash floods have killed at least 37 people in Morocco’s coastal Safi region, according to state-owned television. Cars and mounds of rubbish were seen sweeping through the main port city of Safi after torrential rain hit on Sunday. Dozens of people have been receiving treatment in hospital for their injuries, say local authorities, and […]