Russian court orders rights group Memorial to close
BSS :Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country’s most prominent rights group that chronicled Stalin-era purges and symbolised post-Soviet democratisation.The...


BSS :Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country’s most prominent rights group that chronicled Stalin-era purges and symbolised post-Soviet democratisation.The...
BSS :Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food...
Al Jazeera :Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Stand News online media outlet says it is ceasing operations following a police raid and arrests of current and former...
BSS :Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi is preparing to visit Russia following an invitation from his counterpart Vladimir Putin, an Iranian government spokesman said Tuesday, a...
BSS :Kuwait’s newly-formed government took the oath on Wednesday before Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace, the Kuwait News Agency...
Al Jazeera :Baldev Kumar threw his head back and laughed at the mention of India’s resurgent GDP growth. The country’s economy clocked an 8.4-percent uptick...
BSS :President Joe Biden on Monday said some US hospitals could be “overrun” by Covid cases, but the country is generally well prepared to meet...
BSS :Tens of thousands more people were confined to their homes in northern China on Tuesday, as the country battled its worst Covid surge in...
BSS :Dozens of Rohingya refugees intercepted after their boat ran into trouble off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province were being sent into Malaysian waters,...
BSS :Yemen’s Huthi rebels said on Tuesday that they had allowed the temporary resumption of UN flights into the capital’s Sanaa Airport, a week after...
Xinhua, Islamabad :At least eight people were killed while four others injured in two separate shooting incidents in Pakistan, local media reported on Monday. According...
AP, Manila :The death toll from one of the most destructive typhoons to hit the Philippines in recent years rose to 388 on Monday, the...