AFP :Three more Thai islands opened to vaccinated foreign tourists on Thursday despite a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases propelled by the Delta variant.The islands — Samui, Tao and Phangan — welcomed visitors as...
Reuters :South Africa plans to deploy up to 25,000 soldiers in two provinces where security forces are struggling to quell days of looting, arson and violence, its defence minister told a parliamentary committee on...
AP :Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached...
Reuters :Scattered protests broke out in Haiti’s capital on Wednesday as gasoline shortages added to concerns over insecurity and police announced new arrests a week after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise pitched the...
Al Jazeera :The Bosnian police have arrested the country’s intelligence chief on accusations of money laundering and abusing his office to forge university diplomas.Osman Mehmedagic, the head of the Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA), was arrested...
AFP :The Taliban said on Wednesday they had captured the strategic border crossing of Spin Boldak on the frontier with Pakistan, continuing sweeping gains made since foreign forces stepped up their withdrawal from Afghanistan.The...
Al Jazeera :Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping it is important to Turkey that Uighur Muslims live in peace as “equal citizens of China” but said Turkey respects China’s...
AFP , Tbilisi :Four independent Georgian Television stations suspended broadcasts for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest over attacks against journalists and the death of a cameraman.The TV stations, Formula, Mtavari, Pirveli, and Kavkasia...
AFP :Alcohol consumption was linked to 4% of all new global cancer cases last year, according to a study published on Wednesday, as researchers warned of an urgent need to alert people of the...
Reuters :A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a “cruise to nowhere” has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of COVID-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board were...
Reuters :President Joe Biden, under pressure from US civil rights leaders, on Tuesday called it a “national imperative” to pass sweeping voting rights legislation that has stalled in Congress, but he did not outline...
AFP :Nine Chinese workers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a blast on a bus sent it careering down a ravine in north-western Pakistan, government and police officials said. While Pakistani officials...
