BBC: United States Vice President JD Vance has declined to offer a prospective timeline for the end of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which remains a source of surging global energy prices and unpopularity at home. Vance sought to downplay the fallout from the war in a White House news briefing on Thursday. He even questioned how […]
BBC: “Doomsayers were doomed and India bloomed… Yet again,” wrote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X, reacting to smart first quarter GDP data that came out earlier this week, widely beating forecasts, but also sparking a major controversy over its credibility. On the face of it, the 7.8% number was a shot in the arm […]
(Reuters) GENEVA, Sept 3 – About 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries were subjected to sexual exploitation or abuse on digital platforms in a single year, with most cases occurring on social media platforms, a new report by the U.N. children’s charity said on Thursday. More than one in five children aged 12 to […]
BBC: The heads of Nato and the European Commission have warned that Russia is growing increasingly reckless and vowed to respond to a “new normal”. “Leipzig marks a new escalation on European Union soil directly attributed to Russia,” said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a day after Germany blamed Russia for a failed drone […]
BBC: Nepal’s devastating floods have exposed a risk that does not stop at its borders. India and Nepal share the rivers that rise in the Himalayas, but the relationship between a flood in Nepal and a disaster in India is more complicated than a simple story of water flowing downstream, say experts. Some floods can […]
BBC: Police in Sydney are investigating a second possible mistaken identity killing at the hands of organised crime in less than 48 hours. About 15:15 local time on Wednesday, emergency services rushed to a home in Merrylands West after reports a man in his 40s had been targeted in a drive-by shooting. He died at […]
BBC: Saudi Arabia has condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a Saudi-owned supertanker on Monday night that killed two Filipino sailors. The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was “involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz”. Sidr was hit by projectiles north […]
BBC: Ukraine’s president has told airlines that Russian airspace will be “effectively closing” as his country escalates its drone strikes. “We want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: the Russian sky is becoming completely dangerous,” Volodymyr Zelensky says. Most Western commercial airlines do not […]
BBC: Tehran has launched missile and drone attacks at US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain after American forces resumed strikes against Iran on Tuesday. The Iranian Red Crescent said five people, including a child, were killed and more than 50 injured when shrapnel from a US missile attack hit a home where a […]
(Reuters) SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, Sept 1 – The United States and Australia on Wednesday announced a combined $580 million in funding for the Pacific Islands, as both nations battle China for influence in the region. Australia will offer a A$600 million ($430 million) package to combat drug smuggling in the region at a meeting of the Pacific […]