BSS :Parts of eastern Canada were waking up to damage from powerful storm Fiona on Sunday, as meteorologists said the...
BSS :Seventeen bodies were recovered on Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, raising the overall toll to 94, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean’s deadliest such episodes.The toll has repeatedly ratcheted higher since the first bodies were found on Thursday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, described the shipwreck as a “heart-wrenching tragedy” and the search for those still missing continued beyond nightfall.At least 14 survivors...
BSS :Ukraine said on Sunday that the southern port city of Odessa saw Iranian-made drones overnight in its air space, two days after a Russian attack with such a weapon killed two civilians.”Odessa was attacked again by enemy kamikaze drones,” said the Ukrainian army’s Operational Command South.“The enemy hit the administrative building in the city centre three times,” it said in a Facebook message. “One drone was shot down by (Ukrainian) air defence forces. No casualties (were) recorded,” it said.“These...
BSS :Thousands were without running water and power in central Japan on Sunday after Typhoon Talas dumped record rains on the region, triggering floods and landslides, and leaving at least two dead.The body of a man in Kakegawa city, Shizuoka region, was pulled from what remained of his house on Saturday after a landslide destroyed it, a regional disaster management official told AFP.“Another male (in neighbouring Fukuroi city) was driving to his home on Saturday when the water level rose...
BBC :Italians are deciding whether to choose their most right-wing government since World War Two, in an election being followed...
BSS :Ukrainian officials in the eastern Kharkiv region said Friday that 447 bodies had been exhumed from a mass burial...
BSS :The United States announced on Friday that it was easing export restrictions to improve Iranians’ access to the internet,...
BSS :Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Japan and South Korea next week to attend the funeral of assassinated premier...
BSS :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for calm over Taiwan as he met his Chinese counterpart, as soaring tensions showed signs of easing a notch.Blinken met for 90 minutes with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in talks a US official described as “extremely candid” and focused largely on Taiwan.Blinken “stressed that preserving peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is critical to regional and global...
BSS :President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine if Russian “territorial integrity” is threatened has sparked...
AFP :Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria’s coast, Syrian state media said on Saturday, as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler behind one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), called it a “heart-wrenching tragedy.”At least 14 people rescued were recovering in hospitals in Syria while six others were discharged, as search efforts continued, with several people...
BSS :The Group of Seven industrialised nations on Friday condemned annexation referendums being held in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine as a “sham” with “no legal effect or legitimacy”.“We will never recognise these referenda which appear to be a step toward Russian annexation and we will never recognise a purported annexation if it occurs,” the G7 leaders said in a statement....
