Reuters :Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role running residential schools for indigenous children, after nearly 1,000 bodies...
Reuters :President Joe Biden must let Julian Assange go free if he wants the United States to become a beacon for a free press once again and put the legacy of Donald Trump behind...
AFP :Over a dozen fully vaccinated doctors have died of Covid-19 in Indonesia, a medical association said on Friday, as the Southeast Asian country battles a rash of severe cases in inoculated medical workers...
Reuters :Thousands of Iraqi paramilitary fighters, including powerful Iran-backed factions, marched at a military base in eastern Iraq on Saturday showcasing tanks and rocket launchers in their biggest formal parade to date.The event, attended...
Reuters :British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure on Saturday to fire his health secretary after the admission that he broke Covid-19 guidelines by kissing an employee sparked accusations of blatant hypocrisy.Matt...
Reuters :Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the country’s second-biggest city, state media reported on Friday.Since...
Al Jazeera :Thousands of Palestinians turned out on Friday in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to attend the funeral of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), who died...
AFP :At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to a local government...
BBC Online :The US plans to evacuate thousands of Afghans who worked for the American military ahead of September’s troop withdrawal, senior officials have said.The plan could involve moving as many as 50,000 people...
Al Jazeera :Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei has received a dose of the country’s first locally developed Covid-19 vaccine.Khamenei on Friday called the development of the vaccine a point of “national pride”. “Some...
Reuters :Indian premier Narendra Modi told leaders from Jammu & Kashmir that elections would be held there after the region’s constituencies were reconfigured following the revocation of its semi-autonomous statehood, meeting participants said, reports...
BBC Online :A Belarusian dissident who was taken off a Ryanair jet forced to land in Minsk has been transferred to house arrest, the authorities have confirmed.Roman Protasevich was taken into custody on suspicion...
