BBC: Romania has shut down its only nuclear power station because of extremely low water levels in the Danube river caused by prolonged hot weather affecting much of Europe. The Cernavodă plant, where two reactors produce about 20% of Romania’s electricity, is not expected to be restarted within the next 10 days. Earlier this week, […]
NDTV: Nepal may have lost the original documents of the 1816 Sugauli Treaty. Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has indicated on the floor of Nepal’s Parliament’s lower house (House of Representatives or Pratinidhi Sabha) that the government cannot confirm if it possesses the original document of the 1816 Sugauli Treaty. While some papers exist in […]
BBC: The UK government has defended its seizure of a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the English Channel, after Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “respond in kind”. The Smyrtos was taken to be anchored off Weymouth after Royal Marines Commandos intercepted and boarded it in a first-of-its-kind operation to disrupt the sanctioned tanker […]
(Reuters)་་ Aug 13 – Russia struck Ukraine’s largest Danube grain shipment port overnight, causing damage and setting off a fire, authorities said on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine needed more U.S. air defence missiles to get through winter. The port of Izmail, near the Romanian border in the southern region of Odesa, handles […]
BBC: South Korea’s Incheon has become the world’s busiest airport by international passenger traffic for the first time, new figures show. Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to South Korea, served 38.4 million international passengers for the first six months of this year, according to preliminary data from the Airports Council International. London Heathrow Airport […]
At the Moscow offices of newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the corridors are silent. There is an overwhelming sense of emptiness. “There is no newspaper anymore,” former chief editor Dmitry Muratov tells me. Mr Muratov co-founded Novaya Gazeta more than thirty years ago. It became the flagship for hard-hitting independent journalism in Russia, shining a light on […]
BBC: Two people have died in a military helicopter crash in central Texas, officials have confirmed. The two were pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to an emergency call at around 13:33 local time (18:33 GMT) about the wreckage in fields south of the village of Salado. The aircraft was an AH-64 Apache […]
BBC: A whistleblower jailed for leaking military secrets about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan has been released on parole after serving 27 months. In 2024, David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months after pleading guilty to stealing top secret defence documents and giving it to the media. His actions later led to a […]
BBC: A “massive” Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s port of Novorossiysk has damaged two major grain export terminals and hit the last big Russian naval base on the Black Sea, reports say. Three people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and another 24 injured in the overnight attack, local officials said. Ukraine’s PresidentVolodymyr […]
Rescue workers in Colombia are working against the clock to free survivors trapped in buildings and under rubble following Monday’s powerful earthquake. More than 180 people have been confirmed dead – most in the cities of Cali and Pereira. The magnitude 7.4 quake struck at 07:34 (12:34 GMT) on Monday and was felt across an […]
