ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of long-range cruise missiles, which he described as a successful demonstration of his military’s expanding nuclear strike capabilities and readiness for “actual war,” state media said Thursday. Wednesday’s tests extended a record number of weapons demonstrations this year by North Korea, […]
BBC News: The US and Mexico have agreed to a plan that allows some Venezuelan migrants to enter the US – but those who arrive illegally will be sent back to Mexico. It is hoped the deal will ease pressure at the US-Mexico border, where a steady flow of Venezuelans continue to arrive as they […]
BBC News: Indian health officials have ordered a maker of cough syrups to halt production after they were linked to the deaths of children in The Gambia. Maiden Pharmaceuticals broke rules “across its manufacturing and testing activities,” Indian regulators found. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert over four of Maiden’s cough syrups […]
BBC News: The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn Russia’s attempts to annex four regions of Ukraine. The resolution was supported by 143 countries, while 35 states – including China and India – abstained. As well as Russia, four countries rejected the vote, namely Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Nicaragua. Although symbolic, […]
BBC News: Ukraine’s Nato-led allies have announced deliveries of advanced air defence weapons to Kyiv, after a spate of Russian missile strikes. The weaponry promised by the UK, Canada, France and the Netherlands includes missiles and radars. The US earlier made a similar pledge. One high-tech system from Germany is already in Ukraine. The pledges […]
BBC News: Defence ministers from Nato’s 30 member countries are meeting on Wednesday to decide how to help Ukraine in the war against Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the country urgently needs advanced air defence systems to counter Russian attacks such as the recent strikes on Kyiv and other cities. What is Nato? Nato […]
India Today: A day after conducting raids on 40 locations linked to top Chhattisgarh bureaucrats, politicians, and businessmen, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sources said that they had recovered Rs 4 crore cash, valuables worth crores, and important documents so far. According to ED sources, some people used to collect an illegal commission of Rs 25 […]
Al Jazeera: Myanmar’s Nobel laureate and deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to a further three years in prison by a court in the military-ruled nation, bringing her combined jail term to 26 years. Charged with accepting bribes, a court on Wednesday found the 77-year-old guilty on two counts of corruption and […]
ABC News: TOKYO — The Japanese space agency said a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff Wednesday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its Epsilon-6 rocket experienced an unidentified “abnormality” and its flight […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, Oct 12 – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia over the explosion that damaged the Crimea Bridge last Saturday, Interfax reported. The FSB said the explosion was organised by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, […]
