Monday, 20 Jan, 2025

International

Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers attack West Bank town 

A Palestinian has been killed when a group of Israeli settlers attacked the town of Huwara, amid a surge in settler violence across the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Labib Dumaidi, 19, was shot in the heart by an Israeli settler, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Friday.

Record surge in days over key 1.5C warming limit 

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels. Staying below that marker long-term is widely

Canada moves diplomats from India to Singapore and Malaysia

Canada has moved out a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to

Seven killed, dozens injured in Mumbai residential building fire

A fire swept through a six-story residential building in Mumbai, leaving at least seven people dead and injuring more than 40 others in India’s financial and entertainment capital. Eight fire engines took three hours to extinguish the early morning fire in the Goregaon West

Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years: UNICEF

At least 43 million child displacements were linked to extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found. Floods and storms accounted for 95% of recorded child

Drone attack on Syrian military academy kills 112

An attack Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed 112 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming "terrorist organisations" for the drone strike in government-held Homs. Separately, Turkish air raids in the country's Kurdish-held northeast killed at least 11

Russian strike kills at least 49 in east Ukraine

Ukrainian officials said on Thursday (October 5) that a Russian strike on a grocery store and cafe in the eastern region of Kharkiv had killed dozens of people.  The Ukrainian prosecutor general said at least 49 people were killed. The head of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov

Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Norwegian novelist and dramatist Jon Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2023, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The Nobel

UK warns of Russian attacks on Black Sea cargo ships

Russia may use sea mines against civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports, the United Kingdom has said citing intelligence sources. The warning comes as Ukraine’s navy said that 12 cargo vessels were ready to enter a

14 killed In Sikkim flash floods, 23 soldiers missing

Fourteen people have been killed and 102 others, including 22 soldiers, are missing after flash floods hit Sikkim early on Wednesday.  According to figures released by the state government, 26 people have been injured so far and over 2,000 evacuated so far. Eleven bridges have

Sunak to urge 'Europe-wide solutions' on migration 

Migrants at the MSF's (Doctors Without Borders) Geo Barents ship at the Italian port of Brindisi on September 19, 2023, carrying 471 migrants, including 173 minors, one of whom was less than a year old. Rishi Sunak will call on Thursday for more co-ordinated European action to

US gives 1.1m bullets seized from Iran to Ukraine 

The US has sent roughly 1.1 million bullets seized from Iran last year to Ukraine, its military has said. The US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the Middle East, says the rounds were confiscated from a ship bound for Yemen in December. Ukraine's Western

Trio Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize For Quantum Dots

French-born Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for research in tiny particles known as quantum dots. The trio, whose names were leaked in the Swedish press ahead of the announcement, succeeded in

Anne L'huillier went right back to her students after winning Nobel Prize

'Dedicated Teacher': Anne L'huillier Went Right Back To Her Students After Winning Nobel Prize Anne L'Huillier celebrates with students and colleagues at Lund University. Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in

Turkey arrests dozens over suspected links to PKK

Police in Turkey have detained at least 67 people over suspected links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group in operations across the country. Tuesday's sweep, carried out in 16 Turkish provinces, comes after the PKK claimed responsibility for a suicide

Nearly two dozen Indian troops missing after flash flood

As many as 23 army jawans have been reported missing after a flash flood occurred in the Teesta River of Lachen Valley due to a sudden cloud burst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim, said officials.  The Defence Public Relations Officer (PRO) Guwahati informed about the incident on

India-China feud keeps international planes out of Nepal airport

The bright orange hotel sticks out as far as the eye can see - but unfortunately for its owner Bishnu Sharma, there is hardly anyone there to see it. His hotel offers breath-taking mountain views from the town of Lumbini in Nepal - Buddha's birthplace. But a hoped-for surge in

Pakistan asks 1.7m Afghans among ‘illegal immigrants’ to leave 

Pakistan has ordered all undocumented immigrants, mainly nearly 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to voluntarily leave the country or face deportations. “We have given them a November 1 deadline,” Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Tuesday amid claims by Islamabad that 14

McCarthy ousted as House Speaker in historic vote 

Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing revolt - the first time ever that a US House of Representatives Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote.  The final tally was 216-210 to remove the California congressman as leader of the Republican majority in the lower chamber of