BBC News: Authorities in Somalia say 26 people have been killed and scores injured in Tuesday morning’s attack at a military base in Hawadley town, in the Middle Shabelle region. The dead include five national soldiers and 21 fighters from the al-Shabab militant group. The attack began after a suicide bomber stormed the base. Heavy […]
BBC News: Seventy-two people are believed to have died in the Nepal air crash, the country’s worst air disaster in three decades. Officials said 53 of the passengers were Nepalese, along with five Indians, four Russians and two Koreans. Others on board are reported to have included one passenger each from the UK, Australia, Argentina […]
Reuters: BEIJING, Jan 17 – China welcomes a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the country, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday. “China welcomes Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to China. Both China and the United States are in communication now over the specific arrangements,” […]
Reuters: DNIPRO, Ukraine/KYIV, Jan 17 – Ukraine urged the West to speed up its supply of weapons, with the city of Dnipro reeling from a Russian missile strike that killed at least 40 people in an apartment block and Ukrainian troops under increased pressure on the eastern front. Ukraine’s army General Staff said on Tuesday […]
BBC News: China’s economy grew last year at the second slowest rate in almost half a century – in a sign of how the country’s strict coronavirus regulations have affected businesses. Official figures show the gross domestic product (GDP) of the world’s second largest economy rose 3% in 2022. That is way below the government’s […]
BBC News: The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged. Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in the country’s worst […]
The last time India won the hockey World Cup, things were quite different. It was nearly half a century ago and Indira Gandhi was prime minister when India lifted the cup in March 1975 in Kuala Lumpur – eight years ahead of India’s first-ever World Cup win in cricket. It’s been a long time since […]
Reuters: LAHORE, Jan 16 – A snap local election will be held in Pakistan’s most populous province, officials said, after the provincial leader, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggered the poll, putting pressure on the government ahead a planned general election. Holding local elections in a province with 110 million people, around […]
Reuters: OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 16 – Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The mass kidnapping is a first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighbouring Mali in 2015 […]
BBC News: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia and he […]
