BBC News: There are calls for greater safeguards in Taiwan after at least one device used by the military for its missiles was sent for repair in China. An optical instrument used for launch measurements for Taiwan’s Hsiung-Feng III anti-ship missiles was shipped to its manufacturer in Europe. It was then sent back to Taiwan […]
BBC News: Pakistan’s government has ordered shopping centres and markets to close early every day as the country faces an economic crisis. Defence minister Khawaja Asif says the measures will save the South Asian nation around 62bn Pakistani rupees ($274.3m; £228.9m). Pakistan generates most of its power using imported fossil fuels. Global energy prices jumped […]
ABC News: BAZHOU, China — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full. “They say there’s no beds here,” she barked into her phone. […]
Reuters: WASHINGTON, Dec 22 – The congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former U.S. President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the transcripts of […]
Reuters: KABUL, Dec 24 – Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women’s freedoms. The letter, confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said the female employees were not allowed […]
Reuters: KYIV -A Russian strike on Ukraine’s recently recaptured city of Kherson killed at least seven people, wounded another 58 and left bloodied corpses on the road, authorities said, in what Kyiv condemned as wanton killing for pleasure. Fresh from a trip to the United States seeking more weapons to resist the 10-month Russian invasion, […]
Reuters: PARIS, Dec 24 – Renewed clashes broke out in Paris on Saturday between police and members of the Kurdish community angry at the killing on Friday of three members of their community. Several cars were overturned and small fires set alight near Republic Square, the traditional venue for demonstrations in the city where Kurds […]
BBC News: At least eight people have been killed, and dozens injured, by a huge fuel tanker explosion near a hospital east of Johannesburg, local media report. The tanker appeared to have got stuck under a low bridge on Saturday morning in Boksburg city, about 100m from Tambo Memorial Hospital. Patients were evacuated from the […]
BBC News: Nearly 250 million Americans and Canadians are feeling the icy grip of a massive winter storm linked to at least 19 deaths ahead of the holiday weekend. More than 1.5 million people lost power and thousands of flights have been cancelled since Thursday. The vast storm extends more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) from […]
BBC News: Nearly 1.5 million people are without power across several states as a powerful Arctic winter storm sweeps through the US and Canada. Large parts of both countries are under winter weather alerts that stretch from coast-to-coast and as far south as the US-Mexico border. The storm has brought damaging winds and freezing temperatures […]
