BBC: It was five in the morning when Anna Holovchenko was woken up by glide bombs hitting the suburbs of her home city of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine. Security has deteriorated sharply there in a matter of weeks. Zaporizhzhia is a mere 24km (15 miles) from the front line, but is still home to some […]
BBC: A monk draped in burnt-orange robes faces a row of young men and women and tells them they’re here on a mission to save their country. By finding a partner and one day having babies. The participants giggle, nervously stealing glances from their prospective matches. This isn’t the start of a new hit reality […]
BBC: Landslides triggered by one of the strongest storms in decades have killed at least 15 people in southern Philippines, as parts of East Asia brace themselves for the looming storm. Typhoon Bavi, which spans 1,000km (620 miles) at its widest point – roughly the width of France – is sweeping across the Pacific towards […]
BBC: A passenger was reportedly nearly sucked out of a cabin window in mid-air on a Ryanair-owned plane. Witnesses told local media the man, said to be a Serbian citizen in his 60s, was left hanging head first out of the window as far as his shoulders for several minutes, before other passengers on the […]
Reuters: BEIJING/SEOUL, July 10 – China’s President Xi Jinping met with North Korea’s Premier Pak Thae Song in Beijing on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Pak arrived in Beijing earlier on Friday for a three-day visit and will attend an event marking the 65th anniversary of the neighbours’ friendship treaty, Beijing said. The visit […]
Reuters: MANILA, July 10 – An upcoming meeting between foreign ministers of the Southeast Asian grouping ASEAN and their counterpart from Myanmar will tackle the country’s civil war and its engagement with the bloc after five years in the cold, the Philippines said on Friday. As chair of the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippines […]
Reuters: LOS GALLARDOS, Spain, July 10 – At least 11 people died attempting to flee a wildfire in southern Spain, and 19 were missing, with firefighters on Friday still battling to bring one of the country’s deadliest blazes on record under control. Most of the victims appeared to be foreign nationals who ignored instructions to […]
BBC: China has successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in a major breakthrough for the country’s space programme, according to state media. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the Long March 10B rocket lifted off from Hainan in southern China at 12:15 local time (04:15GMT) on Friday. Around six minutes […]
(Reuters) SYDNEY, July 10 – Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a native seabird, marking a new phase in the disease’s spread after it landed on the country’s shores last month. Laboratory testing by Australia’s national science agency confirmed the case in a greater crested tern […]
BBC: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen steeply after a series of tit-for-tat strikes by the US and Iran following an attack on three tankers earlier this week. Just 23 tankers and cargo ships crossed the critical Gulf waterway on Wednesday, according to the maritime intelligence firm Kpler, down from 47 from a […]
