BBC News: A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around 90 hours after the first of Monday’s deadly earthquakes. The 10-day-old boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province. Footage showed the child being carefully taken out overnight – a sight described by […]
BBC News: Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has performed a key test on its huge new rocket system, Starship. Engineers conducted what’s called a “static fire”, simultaneously igniting 31 out of 33 of the engines at the base of the vehicle’s lower-segment. The firing lasted only a few seconds, with everything clamped in place to prevent […]
BBC News: More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear. Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading almost 100 hours since the tremors struck. Freezing conditions threaten the lives of […]
BBC News: The King and Queen Consort have been thanked for a “generous donation” by the UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) which is helping earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria. The Prince and Princess of Wales also tweeted that they were supporting the appeal. William and Kate said they were “horrified to see the harrowing […]
BBC News: A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that the US shot down this week was able to collect communications signals, a US official has said. It was equipped with multiple antennas capable of “intelligence collection operations”, a senior State Department official said in a background briefing. On Thursday, US lawmakers passed a non-binding resolution condemning […]
BBC News: The first convoy of UN aid for opposition-held north-west Syria since Monday’s huge earthquake has reportedly crossed into the region from Turkey. Officials said six lorries carrying hygiene kits and other items had gone through Idlib’s Bab al-Hawa crossing. The shipment had been due before the disaster, which caused damage to roads and […]
NDTV News: India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and consumer, has diversified its sources of energy imports but will continue to buy most of its oil from the Middle East for a long time, the South Asian country’s oil minister said on Wednesday. “I continue to maintain that the Gulf, countries of the gulf, will […]
BBC News: Pakistan is holding last-ditch talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure help to stem a deepening economic crisis that has all but emptied its foreign exchange reserves. It has enough dollars to cover less than a month of imports at normal levels and is struggling to service sky-high levels of foreign […]
BBC News: Ukraine’s leader is visiting Brussels, having urged the leaders of France, Germany and the UK to provide fighter jets for the war against Russia. “Europe will always remain free as long as we are together,” Volodymyr Zelensky told the European Parliament. He was also due to talk to attend a summit of EU […]
Reuters: SEOUL, Feb 9 – Nuclear-armed North Korea showcased its missile production muscle during a nighttime parade, state media reported on Thursday, displaying more intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) than ever before and hinting at a new solid-fuel weapon. The country has forged ahead with its ballistic missile programme, test-launching dozens of advanced missiles last year […]