BBC: A liner along the bottom of the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC was cut with a sharp knife or razor earlier this month, an official at the National Park Service has said. Frank Lands, deputy director of operations for the park service, said in a court filing on Thursday that US Park Police had […]
(Reuters) TAIPEI/TOKYO, June 26 – Torrential rains from a passing tropical storm shut down a swathe of southern and parts of northern Taiwan on Friday, leaving more than 5 million people off work or school, while neighbouring Japan issued flooding and landslide warnings. Typhoon Mekkhala, now a tropical storm and nearing southern Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, […]
BBC: Rescuers are searching through rubble in a rush to save lives after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela near the capital, killing at least 235 people and injuring more than 1,500. In Caracas and the nearby coastal city of La Guaira, people could be heard calling for help from under the debris of collapsed buildings. […]
BBC: Two-and-a-half years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram, the shrine is embroiled in an unsavoury row over allegations that donations from devotees worth tens of millions of rupees have been embezzled. The temple in the once-flashpoint city of Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh […]
BBC: The UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) has paused the planned evacuation of more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the Strait of Hormuz after a cargo ship passing through the waterway was attacked. IMO chief Arsenio Dominguez said several boats had already been evacuated, but the agency wanted to ensure that “necessary safety guarantees” would […]
BBC: The Supreme Court has ruled that migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border are not entitled to apply for asylum until they set foot in the country. The 6-3ruling will allow President Donald Trump, a Republican, to revive a policy first used in 2016, but rescinded in 2021 under the Democratic administration of President Joe […]
BBC: President Donald Trump cancelled his approval of a landmark bill aimed at lowering Americans’ housing costs just hours ahead of a planned signing ceremony at the US Capitol. Both chambers of Congress had earlier approved the legislation in a rare bipartisan move, signalling how pressing the issue has become for American voters across the […]
BBC: A heatwave gripping western Europe has led to a series of unprecedented temperature highs, with France experiencing its hottest day ever, the UK seeing record heat for June and Spain reaching its highest daily average since 1950. Tens of millions of people are grappling with punishing temperatures, which hit almost 41C in Paris and […]
BBC: The head of the global nuclear watchdog has said it will carry out inspections in Iran under the country’s preliminary peace agreement with the US. “The inspections will indeed take place,” International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi told reporters in Japan. “We will be working on the modalities – dates, procedures, places […]
(Reuters) ABU DHABI, June 24 – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks with top United Arab Emirates officials on Wednesday on a Middle East tour, seeking to reassure Gulf allies who view a proposed Iran peace deal as too generous to a state that attacked them in the war. President Donald Trump’s deal, signed last […]
