Новости за 06.01.2024

The Jordanian army says it has killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of smugglers attempting to cross into Jordan from Syria

Luke Littler, a 16-year-old on debut at the World Darts Championship, came within one match of winning the sport’s biggest prize and a jackpot of 500,000 pounds ($630,000). But that wasn’t even close to being the strangest sight at what is probably the most colorful event in the British sporting calendar. For three weeks from December through January, it is party time at the Alexandra Palace — or “Ally Pally” — in London, when grown men dress like babies and revelers turn up in ever more outrageous costumes. Читать дальше...

A Taliban official says a minibus has exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others

Bangladesh’s main opposition party has started a 48-hour general strike on the eve on a general election, calling on people to boycott the vote because it says the government of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina can’t guarantee its fairness

Hundreds of postmasters were wrongfully accused of stealing money.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted a new round of artillery firing drills near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary

Thousands of mourners have attended a funeral for a Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric gunned down in broad daylight on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad

It has only taken 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst into flames just after touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Tuesday evening

The death toll from a fire in a hospital in Germany this week has risen to five

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months

South Korea says North Korea has conducted a new round of firing drills near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary

Iranian officials say the death toll from an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing has risen to at least 91

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has accused China of harassment and trying to affect public morale by repeatedly sending balloons over the self-governing island

Turkey's justice minister says 15 of 34 people detained on suspicion of spying for Israel will be held in prison awaiting trial

The skies are overcast. On the plains, temperatures have dropped below freezing. High on the mountains, peaks are draped in thick snow. This is the time of “Chillai Kalan,” also called “The Great Winter,” a Kashmiri phrase that defines the harshest 40 days of cold in disputed Kashmir that commence in late December and extend into January and early February. Renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, Kashmir in winter transforms into a wonderland. Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge, and trek the Himalayan landscape. Читать дальше...

Aftershocks are threatening to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan’s western coastline last week reached 100

The creative arts Emmy Awards are being handed out this weekend, and nominees include Pedro Pascal, Melanie Lynskey and Barack and Michelle Obama

A reporter who was fired for his standup comedy has been reinstated to his job at a Philadelphia-based public radio station through an arbitrator

Death toll from western Japan earthquakes reaches 100, Ishikawa prefecture says

TV producer Nigel Lythgoe says he is stepping aside as a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” after lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault

Dominican judge orders Rays shortstop Wander Franco released conditionally as probe continues

A Los Angeles judge has declined to give Cher an immediate court conservatorship over her son's money