Kong kong : A policeman has shot a protester during another day of violent demonstrations in Hong Kong. Footage posted on Facebook showed the officer drawing his gun before grappling with a man at a roadblock. When another man approached wearing a face mask, the officer fired at him, hitting him in the torso. As…
Berlin : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned of the dangers posed by Russia and China, and called on Nato to grow and confront “the challenges of today”. On a visit to Berlin, Mr Pompeo said methods used by China to suppress its own people would be “horrifyingly familiar” to East Germans. And…
Bengal : More than two million people in India and Bangladesh have been evacuated as Cyclone Bulbul hits the Bay of Bengal. The storm made landfall at midnight local time (18:30 GMT) on Saturday, near Sagar Island in Indian West Bengal, and is expected to unleash surges as high as 7ft (2m). Two people have…
Ayodhya : For more than a decade, he sat in musty courtrooms, representing a Hindu God in one of the country’s most contentious and deadly disputes. In court papers, Triloki Nath Pandey, is described as the “next friend” of the infant Lord Ram. The deity was one of the litigants in the long-running dispute over…
North Korea : North Korea has fired two unidentified “projectiles” into the sea, the South Korean military says. According to Japan’s Defence Ministry, the objects “appeared to be ballistic missiles”. If confirmed as a missile test, it would be the North’s 12th such launch this year. That missile was, in theory, able to carry a…
Syria : The US military has published the first footage of the raid in northern Syria that resulted in the death of the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group. Grainy video showed troops firing at militants on the ground as they flew towards the compound where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding before they moved…
Pakistan : At least 73 passengers died when a train travelling from the Pakistani city of Karachi to Rawalpindi caught fire. Minister for railways, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the fire was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder being used by passengers cooking breakfast. The blaze is thought to have spread to at least…
London : The prime minister says he has delivered a “constructive and reasonable” plan to Brussels, containing UK compromises on finding alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop in a Brexit deal. Now it’s the EU’s turn, he reasons. So what compromises, if any, is the EU now willing to make? Well, Brussels’ mantra since Boris…
America : US President Donald Trump has lashed out at congressional Democrats after they vowed to summons the White House to produce documents this week. Committees are demanding documents relating to the administration’s dealings with Ukraine, which is now at the heart of an impeachment inquiry. The president accused Democratic leaders of dishonesty and even…
North Korea : North Korea has confirmed it test-fired a new type of a ballistic missile, a significant escalation from the short-range tests it has conducted since May. The missile – which was able to carry a nuclear weapon – was the North’s 11th test this year. But this one, fired from a platform at…
