
Belarus weather balloons force repeated closures of Lithuania’s main airport
Lithuanian authorities accused Belarus of deliberate disruption after weather balloons directed at Vilnius Airport’s runways forced an 11-hour shutdown on Saturday.
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Lithuanian authorities accused Belarus of deliberate disruption after weather balloons directed at Vilnius Airport’s runways forced an 11-hour shutdown on Saturday.

More than 30,000 people with respiratory illnesses had to be hospitalised in Delhi between 2022 and 2024.

The Malaysian government says it will pay the robotics firm Ocean Infinity $70 million if it can locate the wreckage from the missing flight within a 55-day period.

The egg, which is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires, has not yet been recovered.
High-stakes US-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine failed to yield a breakthrough, as the Kremlin said “no compromise” had been found yet on the key question of territory.

President Trump says he doesn’t want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the U.S.

The Google-owned platform says parental controls will be stripped away as a result of the ban.

The military has taken over but some say the overthrow of the president was not what it seemed.

A bitter dispute between East Asia’s biggest powers, China and Japan, has moved to the cultural front. With both sides unwilling to back down, experts say it could be a protracted feud.

U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Moscow to present the Ukraine peace proposal.

Kremlin officials described the five hours of negotiations as “productive”.

The Imperial Winter Egg with 4,500 diamonds was commissioned by Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II in 1913.
Russia says the United States-brokered talks to end the war with Ukraine are “serious”, but its officials caution that an agreement is a long way off and Moscow would offer no major concessions to Kyiv.

Juan Orlando Hernández, once called the key figure in a drug trafficking scheme that flooded America with over 400 tonnes of cocaine, walks free after the pardon.

The theft reportedly took place after the driver left his truck in an unguarded parking lot overnight.
Pope Leo XIV ended his first overseas papal trip with prayers at Beirut’s devastated port and a Mass attended by 150,000 worshippers in a country desperate for signs of hope amid fear of renewed war.

Pope Leo XIV demanded justice for the more than 200 victims of the disaster, at the end of his three-day visit to Lebanon.

A U.S. official disputes the White House account of the deadly Caribbean boat strike. And, a person familiar with the National Guard shooting suspect says he was suffering a personal crisis.

Demonstrators said the plan – the country’s first in euros – attempted to hide widespread government corruption.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was freed in September, tells the BBC that her two years in captivity left her physically and mentally scarred.

Will Russia accept a modified proposal to end the war in Ukraine? NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with former NATO Ambassador Kurt Volker.