AP :Demonstrations in Cap-Haitien turned violent on Thursday as gunshots rang out while supporters of slain President Jovenel Moïse blocked roads and demanded justice while threatening to disrupt his upcoming funeral.A heavily armed police...
BBC Online :President Xi Jinping has visited the politically troubled region of Tibet, the first official visit by a Chinese leader in 30 years.The president was in Tibet from Wednesday to Friday, but the...
BBC Online :Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad outraged many Muslims worldwide, has died at the age of 86.He died after a long illness, his family told the Berlingske...
The Guardian :Indonesia has reported more daily Covid-19 infections than India and Brazil as the Delta strain sweeps across south-east Asia, placing intense pressure on health systems.Most countries in the region are experiencing their...
AFP :The graft trial of South African ex-president Jacob Zuma resumed on Monday, held online in a bid to forestall another wave of the deadly unrest that swept the nation after he was jailed...
AFP :Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced on Monday he would stand for a second term, reversing a promise to only stay for five years, media reports said.The 72-year-old nationalist leader told top media...
BBC Online :Two vaccination centres have been ransacked in France, as people protested against the introduction of tougher coronavirus rules.One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded using fire hoses on Friday night,...
Online Desk : As many as 25 people have been killed in house collapses triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India’s financial capital Mumbai in the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday.Mumbai received...
Reuters :The Delta variant of Covid-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide, accompanied by a surge of deaths around the United States almost entirely among unvaccinated people, US officials said on Friday.US cases of...
Reuters :Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less...
Al Jazeera :Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sworn in for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, after winning more than 95.1 percent of the votes cast in government-held areas.The May 26...
Reuters :A US federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation, but said the hundreds of...
