Super Typhoon Ragasa: 17 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong battered as storm hits China
Chinese businesses and schools shut and residents in high-rises ordered to evacuate as storm makes landfall on Guangdong coast
Wed 24 Sep 2025 11.34 BST
Super Typhoon Ragasa: 17 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong battered as storm hits China
Chinese businesses and schools shut and residents in high-rises ordered to evacuate as storm makes landfall on Guangdong coast
Fierce winds, pounding rain and high seas battered Hong Kong as Super Typhoon Ragasa headed into southern China after causing a lake to burst in Taiwan, killing at least 17 people.
Hong Kong experienced widespread damage on Wednesday, including fallen trees and flooding in many areas, with the storm surge smashing the glass doors of an upmarket hotel and flooding its lobby, according to footage circulating online.
Italy sends naval vessel to help Gaza aid flotilla
Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip. Activists, lawmakers and journalists in the convoy said drones attacked some of their boats.
Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto condemned on Wednesday an apparent drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla as it left Greece en route toward Gaza.
He added that Italy was sending a naval ship to be nearby if the flotilla required assistance. "The vessel is already en route to the area for possible rescue operations," Crosetto wrote on X.
Iran 'has never sought and will never seek' nuclear weapons, president tells UN
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN Wednesday his country has "never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb", as new European sanctions loom. He accused Israel and the US of destabilising the region and betraying diplomacy with recent military strikes on Iran.
Iran's president repeated Wednesday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, after military strikes by Israel and the United States earlier this year, and impending sanctions triggered by European powers.
"I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb," President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly.
Protests seeking statehood in India’s Ladakh turn deadly
Leading activist says three to five people feared killed in police fire, but no official word yet on casualty figures.
A protest in the Indian Himalayan region of Ladakh demanding statehood for the federal territory has turned violent as protesters clashed with police and set fire to a paramilitary vehicle and the office of the country’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Police fired tear gas on Wednesday and charged demonstrators with batons, injuring dozens of them, police said. Some among the injured were in critical condition, residents said.
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begun
Wed 24 Sep 2025 10.33 BST
Not unreasonably, Mariam Abdelghaffa had imagined her life as a grandmother would be somewhat different. As it was, on the morning of 11 August, she found herself bent double in a trench, awaiting the next onslaught.
It arrived after dawn. She aimed her ancient AK-47 at the pickup trucks racing towards her. Rockets screeched overhead. Suicide drones the size of light aircraft loomed above. Shells rained down.
Tourist crowds in Kyoto starting to repel students on school trips
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Kyoto has become so congested with tourists that organizers of school trips are opting to stay away from the ancient capital.
Visiting students have found themselves learning more about crowds and transportation delays than about the history and culture of Kyoto.
The city remains the top destination for junior high school excursions, but there are signs this could change.
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