Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped
BBC Online : People who got trapped in 1,000 vehicles in heavy snow for more than 24 hours have been evacuated, Swedish authorities say.Rescuers worked through the night to free people stuck on the...
International
US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread
Al Jazeera : The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration following a...
IDF strikes south Lebanon stoking fears of widening conflict
Al Jazeera : Several Hezbollah members have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon in one of the deadliest days for the Iran-aligned group as cross-border fighting has escalated since the start of...
China ‘tells story of Xinjiang’
Al Jazeera :Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of Western China were lies.Accounts from people who had...
Japan quake toll rises
Al Jazeera :Japanese rescuers continue to search for survivors from Monday’s earthquake in Ishikawa prefecture as authorities warned heavy rain, landslides and repeated aftershocks could hamper relief efforts.The regional government said on Wednesday that...
Who was Saleh al-Arouri?
Al Jazeera :A drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday.The drone hit a Hamas office, leaving six people dead, Lebanon’s state news...
Satya Nadella is CNN Business’ CEO of the Year
CNN :It was the year of artificial intelligence, and no Big Tech company leaned into the trend like Microsoft. In 2023, the company’s CEO Satya Nadella made a multi-billion dollar investment in AI, commercialized...
Thailand and China to waive visa requirements from March
BBC : Thailand and China will permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s citizens from March, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said. Thailand waived visas for Chinese nationals in September in a bid to...
XpoSat: India launches space mission to study black holes
BBC :India’s space agency has successfully launched a rocket that is carrying an observatory which will study astronomical objects like black holes. It was launched from Sriharikota spaceport at 09:10 local time (03:40GMT) on...
Chinese teen found alive in US after ‘cyber kidnapping’
A Chinese foreign exchange student has been found freezing but alive in the US after his parents were extorted out of tens of thousands of dollars in a “cyber kidnapping” scam. Kai Zhuang was...
Turkey arrests dozens suspected of spying for Israel
Al Jazeera :Turkey has reportedly detained 33 people suspected of spying on behalf of Israel. The authorities are still searching for 13 other people believed to have links to Israel’s Mossad security service, the...
Mickey Mouse horror film unveiled as copyright ends
BBC :It’s Mickey, but not as you’ve ever seen him before. A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s...