Reuters:- The United States is planning on “cooperation” between its National Guard and Taiwan’s military, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, deepening security ties in the face of what Taipei’s government complains is a rising threat from China. The United States is Chinese-claimed Taiwan’s most important international supporter and arms supplier, despite the lack […]
BBC News:- European Union leaders have agreed on a plan to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports. The ban is a compromise that will not affect pipeline oil imports for now, following opposition from Hungary. European Council chief Charles Michel said the deal cut off “a huge source of financing” for the Russian […]
30 May 2022: His Majesty The King is in the east on a Royal Tour which began on May 26th. Today in Tashigang, His Majesty granted Audiences to the faculty and students of Sherubtse College in Kanglung, and to Tashigang Dzongkhag Officials. During the Royal Tour, His Majesty visited Bumthang, Mongar and Tashigang, and met […]
Reuters: – Russia appears to have suffered devastating losses amongst mid- and junior-ranking officers in its conflict with Ukraine, raising the prospect of weaker military effectiveness in future, Britain’s defence ministry said on Monday. Brigade and battalion commanders were probably deploying to the most dangerous positions while junior officers have had to lead low-level tactical […]
ABC News:- The wreckage of a plane lost in Nepal’s mountains was found Monday scattered on a mountainside and 14 of the 22 people on board were confirmed dead, the army said. Rescuers recovered 14 bodies from the crash site, said Teknath Sitaula of Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu. There was no word on survivors, […]
ABC News:- It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia’s capital. Nearly all the wheat sold in Somalia comes from Ukraine and Russia, which have halted exports through […]
BBC News:- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the Kharkiv region, on the country’s battered eastern front line. It was his first official trip outside the Kyiv region since the Russian invasion began on 24 February. He was pictured in a bullet-proof vest surveying ruins in Kharkiv city. Mr Zelensky told soldiers, “I […]
Reuters:- Hundreds of Lithuanians are clubbing together to buy an advanced military drone for Ukraine in its war against Russia, in a show of solidarity with a fellow country formerly under Moscow’s rule. Some 3 million euros ($3.2 million) have been raised in just three days – out of the 5 million euros needed – […]
ABC News:- Fusako Shigenobu, who co-founded the terrorist group Japanese Red Army, was released from prison Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence, and apologized for hurting innocent people. “I feel strongly that I have finally come out alive,” she said, welcomed by her daughter and a crowd of reporters and supporters in Tokyo. “I have […]
India Today:- China and Russia vetoed a UN resolution sponsored by the United States on Thursday that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea for its spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-2 and marked a first […]