BBC News: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal. The president has been accused of covering up a $4m (£3.3m) theft from his farm in 2020, including kidnapping and bribing the burglars into silence. A leaked report from an independent panel has found that Mr Ramaphosa abused […]
BBC News: A landslide on a motorway in southern Brazil has killed at least two people and left dozens missing. A torrent of mud fell on to the BR-376 highway in the state of Parana, hitting at least 16 vehicles, authorities said. Rescue workers at the scene said bad weather and the remote location were […]
Reuters: SEOUL, Dec 1 – The United States is working a new round of sanctions against North Korea, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Thursday, as Pyongyang forges ahead with banned missile development and signals a possible new nuclear test. “We have a new set of sanctions measures coming forward as we speak,” […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Dec 1- Japan has told China and Russia it has “severe concerns” over their frequent joint air force activities around Japan’s territory, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Thursday. “We will closely monitor the increasing cooperation between the two countries with a sense of concern,” Matsuno, Japan’s top government spokesperson, told a […]
BBC News: At least 17 people have been killed and 26 injured after a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan. The blast took place in the city of Aybak in Samangan province, reportedly as people were leaving prayers. The majority of those killed are believed to be children aged nine to 15, […]
AL JAZEERA: India’s balancing act on the war in Ukraine is becoming more difficult, but New Delhi’s unique position – as a friend of both Russia and the West – could see it emerge as a key mediator, experts have told Al Jazeera. When war began on February 24, New Delhi was quick to support […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Nov 30- A Japanese court will decide on Wednesday whether bans on same-sex marriages are constitutional, a ruling that could set the future course of LGBT rights in the only G7 nation that does not allow such unions. Japan’s constitution defines marriage as based on “the mutual consent of both sexes,” and the […]
Reuters: Nov 30 – A large oil storage tank was on fire early on Wednesday in Russia’s Bryansk region, a local governor said. The tank was located in the Surazh district in the north of the region. Bryansk region borders with Ukraine’s northeast. “Fire and rescue teams are on the site,” Governor Alexander Bogomaz said […]
BBC News: Three Chinese astronauts have taken off for the Tiangong space station to make its first in-orbit crew handover. It will be the second permanently inhabited space outpost, after the Nasa-led International Space Station from which China was excluded in 2011. The fresh crew will live on the station for six months, taking over […]
BBC News: Nato has pledged to give more weapons to Ukraine and help fix critical energy infrastructure badly damaged by massive Russian missile and drone strikes. At a summit in Bucharest, the secretary general of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Moscow of “trying to use winter as a weapon of war”. The Russian strikes […]
