BBC News: At least three people have been killed by Russian strikes in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as Moscow continues to target key infrastructure across the country. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that the victims of the latest Russian attacks were employees of “critical infrastructure”, adding that two facilities in the city had been hit. […]
Al Jazeera: Name after name, senior politician after senior politician. Courts in China have handed down a series of high-profile corruption-related convictions in recent weeks in a final push against corruption and political disloyalty by Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the party’s once-every-five-years congress. The intensity of Xi’s campaign is almost unmatched in the […]
Reuters: SYDNEY, Oct 15 – Emergency warnings remained in place on Saturday for parts of Australia’s southeast as floods, sparked by days of heavy rain, impacted three states, with hundreds of people having to be rescued from floodwaters. Flood warnings were current for large parts of Victoria state, southern New South Wales and the northern […]
BBC News: At least 28 people have died and dozens remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey’s Bartin province. Around 110 people were in the mine at the time of the blast on Friday, almost half of them at over 300 metres deep. Turkey’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said […]
BBC News: Around 90,000 Nigerian homes are submerged as a result of flooding in 27 of the country’s 36 states. The floods have killed around 500 people and 1.4m are displaced, according to authorities. Matthias Schmale, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, said: “We’re currently seeing the worst floods in ten years in Nigeria.”
BBC News: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine, days after the heaviest bombardment of the country since the war began. He said most designated targets of the strikes had been hit, adding that it was not his aim to destroy Ukraine. Moscow’s goal of mobilising […]
BBC News: Ukrainian officials have urged the Red Cross to conduct a mission to a notorious prison camp in the Russia-occupied east of the country. The Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, demanded that the Red Cross (ICRC) visit the Olenivka prison in Donetsk within three days. “We just can’t waste more time. Human […]
BBC News: Communities in three Australian states have been ordered to evacuate as torrential rain brings major flooding. Parts of the country have received more than three times their average October rainfall in just 24 hours. At least 500 homes have been flooded, one person has died and another is missing as the disaster unfolds. […]
India Today: The admission of Ukraine to Nato could result in a third world war, said Alexander Venediktov, thedeputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Thursday. In an interview with TASS news agency,Venediktov said, “Kyiv is well aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to a World War […]
BBC News: India’s Supreme Court has failed to deliver a verdict on whether Muslim students can wear the hijab in schools and colleges, with two judges expressing opposing views. One judge upheld a Karnataka high court order from March that said the hijab was not “essential” to Islam. The other said the high court order […]
