Indian tax department raids at BBC offices entered a second day Wednesday, journalists at the broadcaster told AFP, in an action rights groups linked to critical coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.. "They are questioning the administrative managers after scanning all the digital devices," a journalist at the broadcaster told AFP, requesting anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns.. That, coupled with a rise in racist attacks over recent years which coincided with the spread of the coronavirus, means Lam is now reconsidering his attitude to guns.
North Korea has unveiled new postage stamps featuring leader Kim Jong Un's daughter, in what experts described as another sign of her rise as heir apparent of the nuclear-armed nation.. South Korea's spy agency believes she is Kim's second child, called Ju Ae. The state-run Korea Stamp Corporation unveiled a new series of stamps on Tuesday commemorating the November 18 missile launch -- five of them featuring Kim and his daughter.
Twitter boss Elon Musk said Wednesday that a new CEO might be running the online platform by the end of 2023, after a "rollercoaster" since he took full ownership last year.. Since Musk took full ownership of Twitter on October 27, the platform has been riven by chaos, with mass layoffs, the return of banned accounts and the suspension of journalists critical of the South African-born billionaire.
Every Thursday, Brazilian psychiatrist Flavio Falcone trades his white lab coat for a red clown nose and heads to a decidedly unfunny place: a squalid Sao Paulo neighborhood known as "Crackland.". There are around 800 to 1,700 addicts in Crackland, 39 percent of whom have lived in or frequented the neighborhood for more than a decade, according to a study by the Federal University of Sao Paulo published last year.
One is a former KGB agent and ruthless autocrat in power for more than two decades.. And -- unlike in 2019 -- Zelensky has now refused negotiations with Russia so long as Putin is in power.
Twelve years after a nuclear catastrophe triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeast Japan are preparing to release treated wastewater into the sea.. "I don't think the fisheries of Fukushima will truly recover until the day the nuclear plant shuts down," Ishibashi said. oh/sah/kaf/aha
Saniya Galimova put her husband on the first flight out of Russia and then started to pack up her life.. "If you express your opinion, you put yourself and your parents in danger."
Over the past year, the war has turned upside down the lives of Marko, Oleksandra and Nikol -- three young Ukrainians living their lives despite feeling lonely, remote and in pain.. His parents are separated, and his mother now lives in the Netherlands while his father lives between Lviv and Kyiv.
In successfully spearheading the push for international support for Ukraine, the United States cast off the go-it-alone ethos of Donald Trump's presidency and helped Kyiv to withstand Russia's onslaught.. Total security assistance from the United States and other countries amounts to at least $45 billion since Russia's invasion, Cooper said.
