BBC News: An independent lawyer has been appointed to oversee the US justice department’s criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump. Jack Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, was named special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in a news conference. He will lead inquiries into how Mr Trump handled classified documents and his alleged […]
BBC News: Two firefighters have died after a plane crashed into a fire truck while taking off at Peru’s busiest airport. The Latam Airlines plane collided with the truck just before 15:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday at Jorge Chávez International Airport in the capital, Lima. Video posted on social media shows the plane careering down […]
ABC News: CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s prime minister said Friday he remained committed to building a fleet of submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology despite the French president describing the plan as a “confrontation with China.” The previous Australian government infuriated President Emmanuel Macron last year by canceling a contract for a French-built fleet of […]
ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a suspected long-range missile designed to strike the mainland U.S. on Friday, its neighbors said, a day after the North resumed its testing activities in an apparent protest over U.S. moves to solidify its alliances with South Korea and Japan. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff […]
BBC News: President Volodymyr Zelensky has said 10 million Ukrainians are without power after a fresh wave of missile strikes by Russia. At least seven people were killed in the strikes, with the number expected to rise. “We are doing everything to normalize the supply,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address. Ukraine’s air defence […]
Reutersྪ་་་ KYIV, Nov 17 – Russia pounded gas production facilities and a major missile factory in new missile strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Explosions were heard in several parts of the country, including the southern port of Odesa, the capital Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro, and civilians […]
Reuters: SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Nov 17 – The world’s multi-lateral banks have “demonstrably failed” low and middle income countries when climate disasters hit and need to better assess their vulnerability and resilience when offering support, the head of the Commonwealth told Reuters. Pressure on development finance institutions such as the World Bank has grown over the […]
Reuters: Nov 17 – The United Nations Secretary General said on Thursday he welcomed an agreement by all parties to extend the Black Sea grain deal to facilitate Ukraine’s agricultural exports from its southern Black Sea ports. The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected sea transit corridor and was designed to alleviate global […]
Reuters: Nov 17 – Myanmar’s military leaders have released Sean Turnell, an Australian economist and former adviser to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, and almost 6,000 others from prison under an amnesty, state media reported on Thursday. Former British envoy Vicky Bowman and her husband were among those released, along with U.S. citizen Kyaw […]
BBC News: A planned meeting between Rishi Sunak and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been cancelled after a missile blast in Poland. The encounter, at the G20 summit in Indonesia, was due to be the first in-person meeting between a British PM and Chinese leader since 2018. Early reports had suggested Russia was to blame […]
