NDTV: Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters clashed today in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas amid repolling at 15 booths, officials said. Visuals from the area showed people from both sides in a chaotic scene. The 15 booths are in two assembly constituencies in South 24 Parganas. The repolling began this morning without any incident in […]
(Reuters) KYIV, May 2 – A Russian drone attack on a bus in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson killed two people and injured seven more early on Saturday, officials said. Most of the casualties were public utilities workers, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin added on Telegram. He posted images from the site that showed the bus […]
BBC: Spirit Airlines is shutting down as a business after failing to secure a $500m (£368m) bailout from the Trump administration. The budget airline was in talks with the US government about a rescue deal which would have saved it from collapse. But discussions collapsed and the carrier said in an announcement on its website […]
BBC: The US Defence Department plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany, amid a spat between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war with Iran. The decision comes a day after Trump criticised Merz, who suggested the US had been “humiliated” by Iranian negotiators. In social media posts on Thursday, Trump […]
CNN: As the stalemate between Washington and Tehran drags on and the world waits in hope of a deal, the very real possibility of an alternate outcome – the resumption of war – looms overhead. The clock was already ticking down on Friday to an anticipated deadline for Pakistan to receive Iran’s revised peace proposal, after US President Donald […]
BBC: A man has been arrested after a French nun was shoved to the floor and kicked in an apparently unprovoked attack in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem earlier this week. Footage of the incident shows the woman in a grey habit being shoved from behind, causing her to hit her head on a stone block. Her […]
BBC: The interruption to supplies of fertiliser and its key ingredients due to the war in Iran could cost up to 10 billion meals a week globally and will hit poorest countries hardest, according to the boss of one of the world’s biggest fertiliser producers. Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Yara, told the BBC […]
BBC: Six people have been injured in a stabbing at a school in the US state of Washington following an “altercation”, police said. Five high school students and an adult security guard were taken to hospital on Thursday, Tacoma Fire Department confirmed, adding that all were in stable condition. Police said it detained the suspect, […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/DUBAI, April 30- Iran said on Thursday it would respond with “long and painful strikes” on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks and restated its claim to the Strait of Hormuz, complicating U.S. plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway. Two months into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, the vital sea channel remains closed, […]
BBC: Warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: this article contains references to someone who has died. There has been violence outside an Australian hospital where a man suspected of murdering a five-year-old girl was being treated, as police said they were “coming for” anyone who may have helped him. Jefferson Lewis was arrested […]
