BBC: Pakistan’s former spy chief has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a military court, on charges including violation of state secrets and interfering in politics. Faiz Hameed led Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 2019 to 2021, during the tenure of now-jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. He was known to be […]
ABC: GOMA, Congo — More than 400 civilians have been killed as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continues its offensive in Kivu province in eastern Congo, regional officials said late Wednesday, adding that Rwandan special forces were in the strategic city of Uvira. M23’s latest offensive comes despite a U.S.-mediated peace agreement signed last week by the Congolese and Rwandan […]
(Reuters) SYDNEY, Dec 11 – The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said on Thursday. More than one-third of Tuvalu’s 11,000 population applied for a climate visa to migrate to Australia, under a deal struck between […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, Dec 11 – One worker died and two were missing and feared buried at a library construction site in the South Korean city of Gwangju on Thursday, after an iron structure at the site collapsed, fire authorities said. A fourth person was trapped and authorities were trying to free the worker, the Gwangju […]
(Reuters) Dec 11 – At least 30 people were killed, including patients, after an airstrike by the country’s ruling junta hit a major hospital in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to a rebel group, an aid worker and a witness said on Thursday. More than 70 people were injured, they said. The hospital in Rakhine’s […]
ABC: URIN, Thailand — Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country’s border with Cambodia, the Thai military said Thursday, marking the country’s first civilian fatalities since the fighting resumed. The latest large-scale fighting was set off by a skirmish on Sunday that wounded two Thai soldiers and derailed a ceasefire pushed […]
BBC: This week, tech giants Amazon and Microsoft pledged an eye-popping $50bn-plus combined investment in India, putting artificial intelligence (AI) in the spotlight. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella announced his company’s largest investment ever in Asia – $17.5bn (£13.14bn) – “to help build the infrastructure, skills, and sovereign capabilities needed for India’s AI-first future”. Amazon followed suit, and said […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Dec 11 – U.S. nuclear-capable bombers flew over the Sea of Japan alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian drills in the skies and seas around Japan and South Korea. Japan and the U.S. “reaffirmed their strong resolve to prevent any unilateral attempt […]
Al Jazeera: The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, where President Donald Trump has been threatening military action for the last several months. Members of the Trump administration confirmed reports that the US coastguard led an operation to commandeer the vessel on Wednesday afternoon. But few details have been released […]
BBC: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in Oslo, Norway, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, waving from the balcony of the Grand Hotel after months in hiding. Machado made the covert journey despite a travel ban, and has mostly laid low since Venezuela’s disputed presidential election in 2024. She last appeared in public […]