ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Sunday toward its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weapons testing as a U.S. aircraft carrier visits South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North’s growing nuclear threat. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launched […]
BBC News: Authorities in the Philippines have started evacuating people from coastal areas as a major typhoon approaches. Category 3 Typhoon Noru is travelling at speeds of 195 km/h (120 mph) as it heads towards Luzon, the country’s main island, after what forecasters called an “explosive intensification”. The storm could cause landslides, flash flooding and […]
BBC News: Hundreds of people have been arrested by authorities as protests against Russia’s new “partial mobilisation” continue across the country, an independent rights group has said. OVD-Info said 724 people were detained across 32 different cities on Saturday. Widespread demonstrations have broken out since President Vladimir Putin announced plans to draft 300,000 men to […]
ABC Nes: JERUSALEM — Israeli troops on Saturday shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who allegedly tried to ram his car into a group of soldiers patrolling in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli soldiers and media. The incident took place near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank — the focal […]
BBC News: At least 86 migrants have died after the boat they were travelling in sank off Syria’s coast on Thursday, the country’s state-run media reported. Twenty survivors were taken to hospital, while rescuers continue to search for missing passengers. Officials said Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals – including women and children – were believed […]
India Today: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar lauded India’s economic growth in the past 75 years. S Jaishankar pointed out that colonialism had reduced India to one of the poorest nations, but today India is the fifth biggest economy in the world. “In the 18th century, India accounted for about a quarter of global GDP. […]
NDTV News: With 5,383 new coronavirus infections being reported on Friday, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,45,58,425, while the active cases declined to 45,281, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death count climbed to 5,28,449 with 20 fatalities which includes eight deaths reconciled by Kerala. The active cases comprise 0.10 […]
ABC News: TOKYO — Tropical Depression Talas unleashed fierce rainfall Saturday in parts of Japan, setting off landslides, halting trains and killing a man after he crashed his car into a pond. Police said the man who drove into a pond in central Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture was rushed to a hospital but died. In another […]
Reuters: NEW YORK, Sept 23 – China has accused the United States of sending “very wrong, dangerous signals” on Taiwan after the U.S. secretary of state told his Chinese counterpart on Friday that the maintenance of peace and stability over Taiwan was vitally important. Taiwan was the focus of the 90-minute, “direct and honest” talks […]
NDTV News: Some Russian technology professionals, bankers, and journalists at state media outlets will not be called up to serve in Ukraine as part of Russia’s mobilisation drive, the defence ministry said on Friday in a statement. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier this week Russia would seek to call up 300,000 additional troops for […]
