BBC News: Russian forces fired 76 missiles and carried out drone attacks across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, striking the capital Kyiv and cities in the north, south, west and centre. Two people were killed when a residential building was hit in Kryvyi Rih and a third died in Kherson. Attacks have intensified this week […]
AL Jazeera: At least 10 people, including five children aged three to 15, have been killed in a fire in a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin, near the French city of Lyon, according to interior minister Gerald Darmanin. Another four people were seriously injured in the fire, which started in the early hours of Friday on […]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has tested a “high-thrust solid-fuel motor” as a key step toward building a new strategic weapons system, state media reported Friday, as the country pushes to develop more agile and powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to strike the U.S. mainland. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the successful […]
BBC News: Ukraine has accused Russia of planning a wide-ranging ground offensive for early in the new year, despite recent Russian military setbacks. President Volodymyr Zelensky and senior officials have warned that Kyiv and its allies must guard against complacency. The offensive could come in the eastern Donbas region, in the south, or even towards […]
ABC News: BATANG KALI, Malaysia — A landslide Friday at a tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 Malaysians were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali […]
Al Jazeera: A top United Nations committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military, which grabbed power in a February 2021 coup, from taking the country’s seat at the UN, according to diplomats and Myanmar rights groups. The body’s General Assembly’s credentials committee deferred action on the military’s request to take over the seat, two diplomats who […]
BBC News: The Thai King’s eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand’s royal palace says. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs northeast of Bangkok, the palace said. The 44-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital, then taken by helicopter to Bangkok, where she is […]
BBC NEws: The fighting began early on a bright autumn morning 60 years ago. On 23 October 1962 Chinese solders entered and engaged in intense artillery fire in what was then a far-flung Himalayan region in north-eastern India called North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), bordering China and Bhutan. Today it is Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state […]
Reuters: SEOUL, Dec 14 – U.S. Forces Korea launched a new space forces unit on Wednesday as the allies ramp up efforts to better counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. The U.S. Space Forces Korea is the second overseas space component of the U.S. Space Force and is tasked with monitoring, detecting and […]
BBC News: Explosions were heard in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday, the city’s mayor says. Vitali Klitschko said blasts rocked the central Shevchenkivskyi district and emergency services had been dispatched. Air defence systems are at work, Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba says. BBC reporters heard loud explosions shortly after the air […]
