Reuters: LONDON, Jan 14 – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlined Britain’s ambition to send some of its main battle tanks to Ukraine along with additional artillery support during a phone call on Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Sunak’s office said. “They agreed on the need to seize on this moment with an acceleration of […]
Reuters: KYIV, Jan 14 – Russian missile attacks hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday morning, and the governor of another region warned that a massive missile strike could follow in the coming hours. Reuters journalists heard a series of blasts in Kyiv before the air raid siren even […]
BBC News: Classified files recovered from US President Joe Biden’s former private office reportedly include some material marked top secret. Papers with the highest classification level were among about 10 files at a think tank bearing his name, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News. Fewer than 10 classified documents were found at one […]
BBC News: As some schools re-open across California, the scale of the damage caused by a once-in-a-generation deadly “parade of storms” is becoming clear – as well as the major clean-up effort that will be required for residents of all ages. Many schools in central and northern California cancelled classes shortly after the start of […]
ABC News: LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Friday to work constructively with Scotland’s leader despite tensions over her administration’s wish for a new independence referendum. Sunak held private talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during his first visit to Scotland since taking power, saying that while they are “not going to […]
Reuters: LIMA – Thousands took to the streets of Peru’s capital Lima on Thursday in a peaceful protest against the new government and president, after weeks of bloody clashes triggered by the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo left at least 42 dead. “Why are you turning your back on the people, there are so […]
BBC News: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has held talks with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto. In a tweet, the Ukrainian president said they discussed food security and the Grain from Ukraine initiative – a humanitarian programme to get Ukrainian grain to countries with acute food shortages. Mr Zelensky said they also spoke about the creation […]
BBC News: One of the world’s largest oil companies accurately forecast how climate change would cause global temperature to rise as long ago as the 1970s, researchers claim. ExxonMobil’s private research predicted how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet but the company publicly denied the link, they suggest. The academics analysed data in the […]
NDTV News: The peak of China’s COVID-19 wave is expected to last two to three months, and will soon swell over the vast countryside where medical resources are relatively scarce, a top Chinese epidemiologist has said. Infections are expected to surge in rural areas as hundreds of millions travel to their home towns for the […]
India Today: The dense fog continued to shroud a massive stretch of northern India early Friday morning as Bihar’s Purnea and Gaya recorded 25m visibility, while Patna and Bhagalpur recorded 50m visibility – considered to be dense. The weather station at Safdarjung in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 9.8 degrees Celsius, and Palam recorded […]
