BBC Rihab Faour at her temporary home in Beirut. ‘I have to find something to fill my days,’ she said Rihab Faour fled her home. Then she fled again. Then a third time. Then a fourth. And by the fourth time, a year after the first, she had been fleeing Israeli bombs for so long…
PA Media Irish general election votes being counted at Nemo Rangers GAA Club in Cork Two-thirds of seats in the Irish parliament have been filled, with the Fianna Fáil party leading a tight three-way battle in the country’s general election. With all 43 constituencies’ initial counts in, first preference percentage share for the largest three…
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote on social media…
Ruth Penrose Ruth Penrose said she is a supporter of Debbie Purdy A woman from North Yorkshire who supported a campaigner who spent years trying to get assisted dying legalised has said it is “upsetting” it has happened after she died. On Friday, MPs passed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which was…
Police Scotland A man has been arrested after drugs worth £125,000 were seized by police in Shetland. A van was stopped by officers at Lerwick ferry terminal on Friday. Police Scotland said a 44-year-old man had been charged after the recovery of 1.3kg of heroin and 512g of cocaine. He is due to appear from…
Police in Tanzania are investigating the reported kidnapping of opposition youth leader Abdul Nondo. The ACT Wazalendo party said Nondo was abducted by unknown assailants from a bus station in the main city, Dar es Salaam. Police confirmed that a man was taken from the bus station in the early hours of Sunday by two…
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine. Around 32.5% of the budget posted on a government website Sunday has been allocated for national defense, amounting to 13.5 trillion rubles (over $145 billion), up from a reported 28.3% this…
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has arrived in the US state of Hawaii for a two-day visit, drawing a furious reaction from China. The trip is being billed as a stopover as part of a Pacific tour, but comes amid long-running tensions between the US and China and growing concerns about the possibility of conflict over…
A Tenerife local council has agreed via unanimous vote to start the process of regulating holiday rentals as the growing housing crisis on the Canary Island shows no sign of relenting. The Adeje Council’s decision is based on a proposal by Gabriel González, councillor for Podemos-IU, where he highlighted the sharp contrast between the region’s thriving…
Yann Martel, the best-selling author of Life of Pi, once observed that just as the Bible and Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey form the cultural bedrock of Western civilisation, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana serve as the foundational epics of Indic civilisation. These texts, brimming with profound moral and philosophical insights, have shaped the…
