Reuters: BEIJING, June 12 – China deployed a reconnaissance aircraft over Pacific waters east of Taiwan last week that Chinese media said monitored and gathered intelligence on an exercise involving the navies of the United States, Japan, France and Canada. A Y-9 cargo plane variant fitted with intelligence-gathering equipment most likely monitored and collected intelligence […]
BBC News: Ukraine says it has liberated three villages in the south-east of the country in the first victories of its much-anticipated counter-offensive. Footage on social media showed Ukrainian troops celebrating in the neighbouring settlements of Blahodatne and Neskuchne in the Donetsk region. Kyiv’s deputy defence minister said nearby Makarivka was also taken. On Saturday, […]
BBC News: At least 10 people have died and more than 20 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crashed in an Australian wine region. The passengers were returning from a wedding at a winery on Sunday night when their coach overturned on Wine County Drive near Greta in Hunter Valley, New South Wales. […]
BBC News: On Friday, in the dead of night at the heart of the Colombian jungle, army radios crackled to life with the message the nation had been praying for: “Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.” The military code revealed that four children missing in the jungle for 40 days had all been found – alive. The […]
BBC News: Rina Gonoi had two dreams. To be a soldier, and to compete in the Olympics as a judo player. She started judo when she was four years old, trained by her brother, and was 11 when she first saw soldiers in action. The armed forces, known in Japan as the Self-Defence Forces (SDF), […]
NDTV News: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Saturday as Ukrainian forces were engaged in fierce fighting against Russia on the southern front line. Justin Trudeau, who is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later on Saturday, placed flowers by a wall displaying the faces of soldiers killed […]
ABC News: BONGA, Philippines — Thousands of people who fled their homes in the central Philippines to escape a restive volcano have to contend with another threat that’s complicating the ongoing evacuations: monsoon rains that could be unleashed by an approaching typhoon. More than 6,000 villagers have been forced to leave rural communities within a […]
BBC News: Five workers have been killed by a huge blast at a rocket and explosives factory in Turkey, officials say. It happened early on Saturday morning at the state-owned MKE Rocket and Explosives Factory, 40km (25 miles) east of the capital Ankara. Several others were injured by the blast, which state TV said shattered […]
Al Jazeera News: Four children have been found alive in the Colombian jungle more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in the thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The children from an Indigenous community were rescued on Friday by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare […]
BBC News: A new study published in Lancet estimates that 101 million people in India – 11.4% of the country’s population – are living with diabetes. A survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people – or 15.3% of the people – could be living with pre-diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is […]