BBC News: A man has been arrested for opening the emergency door of an Asiana Airlines flight as it was landing in South Korea. All 194 passengers survived the flight, which landed safely but with its door still open at Daegu International Airport on Friday Some passengers fainted while others had breathing problems and were […]
NDTV News: A special ₹ 75 coin will be launched to commemorate the inauguration of the new parliament building, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday. The commemorative coin will serve as a tribute to India celebrating 75 years of independence and will be unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. One side of […]
NDTV News: Two 13-year-olds have turned themselves over to police after a blaze burned down a seven-storey heritage building in central Sydney, officers said Friday. Australian police said an arson investigation had been launched after Thursday’s fire at a vacant former hat factory, which spread to an adjacent building and forced mass evacuations before being […]
Al Jazeera News: Russia will not achieve a military victory in Ukraine and Kyiv’s forces are unlikely to push back all Russian troops from their territory any time soon, the United State’s highest-ranking military official has said. “This war, militarily, is not going to be won by Russia. It’s just not,” General Mark Milley, chairman […]
BBC News: A man has been arrested after four people were killed in a rare shooting and stabbing attack in Japan. The alleged assailant stabbed a woman and shot two policemen with a hunting rifle in Nagano prefecture. A fourth death was later confirmed. Police have named the suspect as Masanori Aoki, the 31-year-old son […]
ABC News: WARSAW, Poland — The chairman of Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday offered words of reconciliation over World War II-era mass murders that have strained relations with its neighbor and strategic ally Poland for 80 years. “Human life has equal value, regardless of nationality, race, sex or religion,” Ruslan Stefanchuk told Polish lawmakers. “With this […]
Reuters: SYDNEY, May 25 – A massive blaze gutted an abandoned hat factory in central Sydney and forced emergency services to evacuate people from nearby apartment buildings before firefighters brought the inferno under control, without any casualties reported. Over thirty firetrucks and 120 firefighters fought the fire in the seven-story building close to Sydney’s central […]
Reuters: May 25 – Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has started withdrawing its forces from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and transferring its positions there to regular Russian troops, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video published on Thursday. “We are withdrawing the units from Bakhmut. From today at five in the morning, May 25 […]
ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. Thursday’s drills, the first of the allies’ five rounds […]
ABC News: The Biden administration is investigating claims that American munitions initially supplied to the Ukrainian government have been used in a rare cross-border incursion in Russia by groups of far-right, anti-Kremlin assailants, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. “We’re looking into those reports that the U.S. equipment and vehicles could have been involved,” White House […]