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Taiwan extends mandatory military service to one year – BBC News
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has announced all men will be required to serve one year’s military service. The decision to extend the compulsory military service from four to 12 months comes amid growing tensions with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. “Peace will not drop from the sky… Taiwan is on the front line of authoritarian expansion,” President Tsai said. The new…
Record number of people cross dangerous Darién Gap to try and reach US – BBC News
A record number of people have made the perilous trek through the Darién Gap jungle to try and reach the US this year. Driven by economic and political crises in their country, more than 100,000 Venezuelans have made the passage, compared with fewer than 3,000 in 2021. The Darién Gap jungle sits between Panama and Colombia. It has no roads, and is known for being…
President Zelensky meets President Biden at the White House – BBC News
In his first foreign visit since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, President Zelensky travelled to the US to meet President Joe Biden. In a historic meeting at the White House in Washington DC, the two spoke about extra support being pledged by the US to help the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. President Zelensky also presented President Biden with a Ukrainian captain’s medal on…
Elon Musk to quit as Twitter CEO when replacement found – BBC News
Twitter boss Elon Musk has said he will quit as chief executive of the company when he can find someone “foolish enough to take the job”. Mr Musk said he’d abide by the results of a poll he tweeted asking Twitter users whether he should resign – 57.5% of people voted “yes” to him quitting the role. The SpaceX and Tesla boss said he will…
Tuscany's medieval cheese-rolling competition, Palio dei Caci – BBC News
In Tuscany, Italy, the pinnacle of a local food festival is a cheese race known as Palio dei Caci. The event, inspired by a medieval tradition, involves navigating a wheel of cheese down a sharp slope. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog #Tuscany #Cheese #BBCNews
Pope Francis says world suffering a 'famine of peace' – BBC News
Pope Francis has said the world is suffering from a “famine of peace”, in his annual Christmas Day message from the Vatican. He called for a end to the “senseless war” in Ukraine, condemning what he said was the use of “food as a weapon” of war. Ukraine shipped about 30% of the world’s wheat and prices have jumped since the Russian invasion in February….
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Given the prosperity and world-leading innovations of so-called emerging economies, from China and India to South Korea and Qatar, the ‘developing’ label is outmoded, outdated and patronising. [...]
Millions of voters in England and Wales will cast their ballots on Thursday in an array of local elections that will be the last big test before a UK general [...]
Floods and landslides in Kenya have killed 181 people since March, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. In the central Kenyan town of Mai Mahiu, where at least [...]
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