BBC: A Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet has crash-landed at Zakynthos airport, closing one of Greece’s busiest summer holiday terminals. The aircraft – which was on a training flight – landed at about 13:45 local time (10:45 GMT) on Thursday after developing a technical fault, the air force said. It added that the pilot […]
BBC: Ukraine’s military has intensified its attacks near Russian-annexed Crimea, following up strikes on Russia’s land corridor to the peninsula by targeting maritime supply routes as well. Ukraine’s drone force commander Robert Brovdi, also known as Magyar, says at least 25 ships have been hit and set on fire over the past four days in […]
BBC: A fire at a shoe factory in the south-eastern Chinese city of Jinjiang has killed at least 28 people, according to the state news agency. Dramatic footage posted by Xinhua showed huge plumes of black smoke rising from a building as well as people who appeared to be trapped on the roof. President Xi […]
Reuters: ON BOARD THE TAIWAN COAST GUARD SHIP PP-10081, Taiwan Strait, July 9 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government took a small group of foreign lawmakers on a Coast Guard ship around sensitive Taiwan-controlled islands next to the Chinese coast on Thursday, pushing back against China’s Coast Guard whose patrols have angered Taipei. China views democratically governed […]
DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) – Iranian armed forces launched attacks on U.S. military infrastructure in neighbouring Gulf states on Thursday following U.S. strikes on Iran’s southern coastal and eastern provinces, putting further strain on a three-week-old ceasefire agreement. Iran was also preparing on Thursday to bury its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the country’s holiest […]
BBC: The Indian state of West Bengal has been on the boil for the past few days over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. The body of the child was fished out from a pond on Sunday – a day after her family reported her missing. The incident in Surjyapur village in Baruipur, […]
Al Jazeera: Flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak has killed 39 people in southern China, most of them after a dam breach inundated the city of Nanning. Ding Wei, the city’s vice mayor, announced the toll at a news briefing on Thursday, up sharply from a previous count of six, after record rainfall breached reservoirs and […]
NDTV: Delhi woke Thursday to grey skies, uprooted trees, and flooded roads as rain fell overnight and this morning, underscoring the weather department’s three-hour ‘red alert’ warning for the day. An orange alert was also issued for areas in the wider National Capital Region (NCR), including Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut, and Gurugram, where more heavy rainfall […]
(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, July 8 – Pakistani rescuers found the wreckage of a cargo plane in a deep-sea search operation on Wednesday, 12 hours after it went missing off the coast of Karachi, with efforts underway to find the five crew members who were on board, authorities said. The wreckage of the K2 Airways Boeing (BA.N), opens new […]
(Reuters) CARACAS, July 8 – The death toll from Venezuela‘s twin earthquakes has risen to 3,811, according to figures released by National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez on Wednesday. The latest tally puts the number of injured in the June 24 quakes at 16,740, and the number of homeless at 17,907. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez renewed calls […]
