NDTV News: A man who was allegedly planning to rob a bank in Rome was rescued from a tunnel he was excavating, according to a report from The Guardian. Firefighters worked for eight hours to rescue the man from a six-meter-deep hole on Thursday after part of a road on Via Innocenzo XI collapsed near […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Aug 13 – Japan’s industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday became the first member of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine for war dead in Tokyo, Kyodo news agency reported. “I resolved to do my utmost for the peace and development of Japan, while thinking of the late […]
NDTV News: New Delhi: India recorded a total of 16,561 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 4,42,23,557, according to the Union Health Ministry. The country also reported 49 new fatalities due to coronavirus on Friday, taking the Covid-related death coun to 5,26,928 . India’s active caseload […]
Reuters: Aug 13 – Taiwan’s foreign ministry expressed its “sincere gratitude” towards the United States for taking “concrete actions” to maintain security and peace in the Taiwan Strait and the region in a statement on Saturday. The statement came in response to comments from U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell, who said on Friday that China […]
BBC News: The US Department of Justice is asking a Florida court to unseal the warrant that let FBI agents search former President Donald Trump’s home. If granted, the rare request would make the documents available to the public. Attorney General Merrick Garland also revealed he personally approved the warrant, which was executed at Mr […]
BBC News: Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong – convicted of bribery and embezzlement in 2017 – has been granted a special presidential pardon. One of South Korea’s most powerful white collar criminals, Lee was twice imprisoned for bribing a former president. South Korea’s government justified the move, saying the de-facto leader of the country’s biggest company […]
BBC News: More shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reported, with Ukraine and Russia again blaming each other for the attack. Each side said there were 10 hits on the office and fire station of Europe’s biggest power plant on Thursday. At a meeting of the UN Security Council called to discuss […]
BBC News: Concern is mounting over around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after fresh strikes hit the compound – which the UN warned could “lead to disaster”. Staff at the plant told the BBC’s James Waterhouse they were being held hostage at gunpoint by Russians using it as a military base. Zaporizhzhia, the largest nuclear […]
Reuters: SEOUL, Aug 11 – South Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday the U.S. THAAD missile defence system stationed in the country is a means of self-defence, News1 reported, after Beijing demanded Seoul not deploy additional batteries and limit the use of the existing ones. The THAAD missile defence system has for years been a […]
Reuters: KYIV, Aug 11 – Heavy fighting raged around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pisky on Thursday as Russia pressed its campaign to seize all of the industrialised Donbas region, while to the west Kyiv accused Moscow of using a nuclear plant to shield its artillery. An official with the Russia-backed Donetsk People’s Republic said […]
