BBC News: Canadian federal police are investigating reports of undeclared Chinese “police service stations” in the province of Quebec. The RCMP said they are looking at two Montreal-area sites believed to be operating on behalf of Beijing. Human rights groups have accused China of using the stations to threaten and monitor Chinese nationals abroad. China […]
BBC News: At least nine people have died in a new wave of strikes across Ukraine in which Russia used powerful weapons, including rare hypersonic missiles. Russia had reportedly not fired Kinzhal hypersonic missiles – which can evade air defences – since the early months of the conflict. The latest barrage was the most severe […]
Reuters: BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 9 – Islamist militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said on Thursday. The assailants were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), […]
Reuters: KYIV/ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine, March 9 – Russia launched a huge wave of missile strikes across Ukraine while people slept on Thursday, killing at least six civilians, knocking out electricity and forcing a nuclear power plant off the grid. The first big volley of missile strikes since mid-February shattered the longest calm since Moscow began a […]
BBC News: The Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has been killed in an explosion at his office. Mohammad Dawood Muzammil is the most senior official to be killed since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Violence has decreased sharply since then, but there has been a string of attacks on prominent pro-Taliban […]
Reuters: KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 – Former Malaysian prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin arrived at the country’s anti-graft agency on Thursday, after he was summoned to appear following allegations of abuse in stimulus programmes launched under his premiership. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim last year ordered a review of government projects worth billions of dollars approved by […]
BBC News: Bollywood actor and director Satish Kaushik has died at the age of 66 in national capital Delhi. His nephew Nishaan Kaushik told BBC Hindi that the actor suffered a heart attack on Thursday morning. He was visiting a friend in a suburb of Delhi at the time and was rushed to a hospital, […]
BBC News: Russia has carried out a series of missile strikes across Ukraine, hitting residential buildings and infrastructure in Kharkiv and Odesa, Ukrainian officials say. The attacks have caused power blackouts in several areas, regional heads added. A mass missile attack struck an energy facility in the port city of Odesa, triggering power cuts, its […]
ABC News: PATNA, India — An Indian army mortar shell fired during a training session fell short of its target and exploded in a village house in the country’s east on Wednesday, killing a young couple and a neighbor, a government official said. The couple was visiting Gulvared, a village in Gaya district in Bihar […]
BBC News: Ukraine has denied any involvement in September’s attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany. The denial follows a report from the New York Times, which cites anonymous US intelligence officials who suggest a pro-Ukrainian group was to blame. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the […]