Myanmar airstrike on ruby mine hub kills 13
AFP : A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a spokesperson...
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Ukraine hits oil depot & Russia strikes homes near Black Sea
BBC : A massive oil depot fire raging near Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi has been blamed by Russian authorities on a Ukrainian drone...
Pope Leo exhorts crowd of million Catholic youth to spread their faith
Reuters : Pope Leo celebrated the largest event yet of his nearly three-month tenure on Sunday, encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic...
Dormant Russian volcano erupts after 450 years
AFP : A volcano erupted for the first time in 450 years in Russia’s eastern Kamchatka region, the nation’s emergency authority said Sunday, days after...
New tsunami warning from Russia
News Desk : Russian officials warned that a tsunami wave of up to 19 centimetres could affect a section of the Kamchatka coast following a...
Gaza war end in sight, US envoy tells hostage’s kin
Japan Today : U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy told families of hostages being held by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday that he...
Hamas denies it expressed willingness to disarm
Al Jazeera: Hamas has rejected reports that it expressed a willingness to disarm during Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Israel, stressing that it has a “national...
Ukraine hits military targets and pipeline in Russia
AFP: Ukraine said Saturday it hit military targets and a gas pipeline in drone attacks in Russia, where local authorities said three people were killed...
Kyiv mourns after deadliest attack
Japan Today : The Ukrainian capital Kyiv observed an official day of mourning Friday, a day after a Russian drone and missile attack on the...
12yrs house arrest for Colombian ex-leader Alvaro Uribe
BBC : Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud charge. The 73-year-old...
South Africa arrests 1,000 illegal miners
AFP : South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in illegal gold mines in the northeast of the country....
Trump orders nuclear submarines moved after Russian ‘provocative statements’
Japan today : US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in “the appropriate regions” in response...