The Indonesian agency overseeing President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme will “refocus” its budget by cutting back on new kitchens and targeting recipients in more remote areas, its new chief said on Thursday. Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, the new chief of the
A dozen people have died in a fire at a home for older people in Sri Lanka, police said on Thursday, while another eight have been hospitalised. The fire, which broke out at a home in Anguruwatota (55 km or 34 miles from the commercial capital Colombo), has been put out and the direc
Hungary reported African swine fever in domestic pigs for the first time, the National Food Chain Safety Office said in a statement on Thursday. Authorities ordered the culling of 3,000 pigs on the farm that is affected, and they are investigating the source of the infect
Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians, including five family members, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said. Medics said Israeli planes launched strikes on four apartments around the same time before dawn on Thursday, killing at least nine peop
The US House of Representatives passed a measure that seeks to halt President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran. The 215-208 vote was successful after four Republicans joined Democrats in a rare public show of disapproval of the war, which began in February, says a BCC repor
