BBC News: Sweden’s prime minister says she will stand down after her government was defeated in Sunday’s election. Magdalena Andersson’s centre-left coalition looks set to narrowly lose to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted. Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government. […]
BBC News: More than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said. Azerbaijan says 50 of its own troops have also been killed in the fighting, which both sides blame on the other. It is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts […]
NDTV News: An engine fire sparked a rush to evacuate an Air India Express plane that was preparing to take off from Oman, leaving some passengers with light injuries, officials said Wednesday. Footage aired by Omani TV showed smoke billowing from the plane, which had been taxiing for departure for Kochi, as passengers streamed across […]
Reuters: LONDON, Sept 14 – King Charles, his sons Princes William and Harry and other senior royals joined a solemn procession taking Queen Elizabeth’s coffin as the late monarch made her final journey from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Huge crowds gathered in central London to witness the queen being taken from the palace to parliament […]
ABC News: CANBERRA, Australia — Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tuvalu have accepted Australia’s help to fly representatives to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and other British Commonwealth island leaders could take up the offer, Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said all 10 former British colonies in the Pacific region […]
BBC News: President Volodymyr Zelensky has been to the recaptured city of Izyum, a key logistics hub in north-eastern Ukraine. During his visit, Mr Zelensky thanked troops who took part in the counter-attack against Russian occupiers. He oversaw a flag-raising ceremony and said the Ukrainian flag would return to every city and village in the […]
ABC News: As the Chinese government increased its crackdown on political speech and dissenters in Hong Kong in recent years, tens of thousands of longtime residents have fled to nearby Taiwan to escape the oppression. For many ex-pats, like Annie Zhang, a former editor of a Hong Kong-based media company, their new surroundings have allowed […]
Reuters: BANGKOK, Sept 14 – Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday set Sept. 30 as a date to deliver its verdict on the tenure of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, in a case that seeks to determine when he reaches an eight-year limit as premier. Prayuth, who seized power in a 2014 coup before formally becoming prime […]
Reuters: BALAKLIIA, Ukraine, Sept 14 – Ukraine worked on Wednesday to secure territory reclaimed from occupying Russian forces in a swift counter-offensive and reiterated plans to win back all occupied regions, as U.S. President Joe Biden predicted “a long haul” ahead. In a Tuesday evening address, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said around 8,000 square km (3,100 […]
BBC News: China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Ukraine and other “international and regional topics” at their meeting later this week, the Kremlin says. The two will meet in Uzbekistan at a summit that will show an “alternative” to the Western world, the Kremlin said. Mr Xi is […]
