BBC News: Police have arrested 65 people for smuggling 50kg of drugs – some hidden in toothpaste tubes – into Vietnam. It follows last month’s arrests of four Vietnam Airlines cabin crew found with the tubes in carry-on bags after a flight from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City. They said they were hired to […]
ABC News: BANGKOK — Thailand’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for an ex-elementary school principal convicted of killing three people, including a toddler, during an armed gold shop robbery in 2020. The court ruled Wednesday that Prasitthichai Khaewkao did not deserve a reduction in his original sentence, calling the shooting in a shopping mall […]
BBC News: India’s Supreme Court is set to hear a petition by top wrestlers who have asked for a case to be filed against the chief of the federation governing their sport. They have been demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan Singh over allegations of sexual abuse by several female athletes. Mr Singh has denied […]
BBC News: Suspected Islamist militants have killed 33 soldiers in north-east Burkina Faso during an attack on a military post, the army said in a statement. It’s the second such attack in just over a week in which dozens of soldiers have been reported killed. The military-led government in the capital Ouagadougou spoke for the […]
BBC News: Russian air strikes have hit cities across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, killing at least 12 people. Ten people died in the central city of Uman after missiles hit residential buildings, officials said. And a woman and her three-year-old daughter were killed in the city of Dnipro, according to the local mayor. There […]
ABC News: BEIJING — China’s defense minister says conditions along the tense, high-altitude border with India are “stable overall,” in sharp contrast with the far more pessimistic view from New Delhi. The remarks from Li Shangfu came in a statement issued shortly after a meeting Thursday with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. […]
ABC News: TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defense ministry said Friday, in the largest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in the month. Six navy vessels were also spotted in the area from […]
Reuters: KYIV, April 28 – Russia attacked cities in a wide arc across Ukraine early on Friday extending from the capital, Kyiv, through central and southern regions and at least two people were killed, according to media and officials. “A young woman and a three-year-old child have been killed,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the central […]
BBC News: Rival factions of Sudan’s military have agreed to renew a three-day ceasefire, shortly before it was due to expire. The extension – for another 72 hours – follows intensive diplomatic efforts by neighbouring countries, as well as the US, UK and UN. But there are continuing reports of heavy fighting in the capital […]
BBC News: Sudan’s military has been carrying out air strikes against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital Khartoum, despite a ceasefire being in force, the AFP news agency is reporting. Warplanes have been seen over the city’s northern suburbs, while fighters on the ground have been exchanging artillery and heavy machine-gun fire, […]