United Nations — The revenues from arms sales and military services by the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). www.sipri.org Global arms revenues rose sharply in 2024, as demand was boosted by…
A Brazilian teenager was mauled by a lioness in full view of zoo visitors on Sunday, after scaling a six-meter wall and safety fencing and shimmying down a tree into the enclosure, authorities said. The municipal government of the coastal city of Joao Pessoa said a young man — identified by Brazilian media as Gerson…
‘Solemn scenes’: BBC reports from outside Hong Kong’s scorched buildings At least 128 people have died in a devastating fire that engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. A further 79 people have been injured in the city’s deadliest blaze in more than 70 years, which occurred in the northerly suburb of Tai Po, while…
Hong Kong — The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong residential complex climbed to 128 on Friday as more bodies were found in the blackened towers, authorities said. Secretary for Security Chris Tang told reporters at the scene that the search for victims was continuing and the numbers could still rise….
Friday’s earthquake was felt in the capital Dhaka and neighbouring districts, causing destruction and panic. A low-magnitude tremor shook Bangladesh, the national meteorological service has said, a day after a powerful earthquake struck near the capital, Dhaka, killing at least 10 people. Updating earlier tolls from Friday’s magnitude 5.5 earthquake, disaster management official Ishtiaqe Ahmed…
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Arunoday Mukharji and Mir Sabbir,in Dhaka, and Anbarasan Ethirajan and Ewan Somerville Watch: Moment Ex-Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina’s sentence is announced Bangladesh’s former prime minister has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over her crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting. Sheikh Hasina was found guilty of allowing lethal force to…
A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against humanity involving last year’s mass uprising that killed hundreds of people and ended her 15-year rule. The tribunal also sentenced former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in the case while a third suspect — a former police…
Anthony Zurcher,North America correspondent, George Wright and Alex Smith Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images Dick Cheney was one of the most powerful US vice-presidents in history under George W Bush Former US President George W Bush has lead tributes to Dick Cheney, saying his death is “a loss to the nation and a sorrow…
A 4,270-year-old skull washes ashore, a governor wins more than $1 million in Vegas, and the NFL sees its first coach firing of the season. Test your knowledge of this week’s news, and take last week’s quiz here. Jeremy Mikula Jeremy Mikula is the weekend director of platforms for NBC News. Melinda Yao I am…
