BBC News: India’s Himalayan town of Joshimath has been in the news for sinking slowly into ground because of uncontrolled construction and indiscriminate extraction of groundwater. Experts fear several cities in the country could meet the same fate. However, a neighbourhood in the capital Delhi reduced its reliance on groundwater and reversed the trend of […]
BBC News: More than a billion people have welcomed in the Lunar New Year – one of the world’s biggest festivals. Fireworks, music and lanterns filled streets across Asia as locals began celebrations that are expected to last for 15 days.
Reuters: KYIV, Jan 21 – A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv’s allies on Saturday to “think faster” about stepping up their military support, a day after they failed to agree on sending battle tanks coveted by Kyiv. “You’ll help Ukraine with the necessary weapons anyway and realize that there is no […]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern surprised the world this week, announcing that she was quitting because she no longer had “enough in the tank” to do the job. “Politicians are human. We give all that we can, for as long as we can, and then it’s time,” she said in an emotional address that […]
BBC News: Ukraine’s defence minister has said he had a “frank discussion” with his German counterpart about German Leopard 2 tanks, which Kyiv is urgently requesting to confront Russian armour. Germany has not yet decided whether to send the tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act. […]
BBC News: The US will designate Russia’s Wagner group, which is believed to have thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, a “transnational criminal organisation”. It will also impose fresh sanctions on the group and its support network next week, the White House said. “[It is] committing atrocities and human rights abuses in Ukraine and elsewhere,” national […]
NDTV News: Air India has been fined ₹ 30 lakh and the licence of the pilot-in-charge of its New York-Delhi flight on which a drunk passenger peed on a woman has been suspended for three months by the aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation. A penalty of ₹ three lakh has also been imposed […]
BBC News: Hundreds of people have had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a shanty town in South Korea’s capital, Seoul. Roughly 60 homes are reported to have been destroyed in Friday morning’s blaze in Guryong Village. There have been no reports of deaths or injuries. South Korean media has described the […]
BBC News: More countries have answered President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to send further arms to Ukraine. The US says a package worth $2.5bn (£2bn) will be sent, including armoured vehicles and air defence systems. Several European nations promised their own new packages – including hundreds of missiles pledged to Kyiv by the UK. The announcements […]
ABC News: UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s U.N. ambassador accused the Palestinians on Wednesday of stabbing a knife into any chance for reconciliation by seeking an advisory opinion from the U.N.’s highest court on Israel’s decades-old occupation — and the Palestinian U.N. envoy accused Israel’s new government of seeking to crush its people. The always contentious […]
