BBC News: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Kremlin of resorting to “energy terrorism” as Russian troops make few gains on the battlefield. Mr Zelensky said 4.5 million people were without power following Russian attacks on its energy network. In recent weeks, Russia has carried out large-scale missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian power […]
ABC News: PRETORIA, South Africa — Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict believed to have killed hundreds of thousands, but enormous challenges lie ahead, including getting all parties to lay down arms or withdraw. The war in Africa‘s second-most populous country, which marks two years on Friday, […]
NDTV News: Fourteen million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes since the start of Ukraine’s invasion on February 24 this year, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has said. In a briefing to the Security Council on Wednesday, the UN refugee chief said, “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven the […]
Al Jazeera: Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, says he will fly to Egypt after all to join UN climate talks after provoking a tempest two days into his tenure when he refused to attend the global conference. Sunak had argued that “pressing domestic commitments” would keep him away from COP27 talks in the Red […]
ABC News: BANGKOK — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found a former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party guilty of terrorism and given him a 148-year prison sentence, which added to previous convictions extends his total prison term to 173 years, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday. The sentence […]
BBC News: North and South Korea have both fired missiles landing in waters off each other’s coasts for the first time. Seoul retaliated on Wednesday three hours after Pyongyang launched a missile that landed less than 60km (37mi) off the South’s city of Sokcho. The South’s military said this was an “unacceptable” breach of its […]
BBC News: North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries’ maritime border for the first time since the Korean War. The short-range ballistic missile landed near the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, triggering the island’s air-raid alarm. Residents on the tiny island were told to evacuate and seek shelter. […]
MORBI, India — Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country’s worst accidents in years, officials said. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As families […]
BBC News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Morbi district in western Gujarat state where a bridge collapse killed 135 people in one of India’s worst accidents in years. The 140-year-old bridge over the Machchu river gave way on Sunday, days after it reopened following repairs. Search and rescue operations on the river resumed on […]
ABC News HELSINKI — A helicopter on a leisure flight crashed in central Norway Tuesday killing both passengers and severely injuring the pilot, authorities said. Norwegian police identified the dead passengers as a Norwegian man and a woman in their 60s. The pilot was found alive at the crash site just outside the town of […]
