Reuters :Women in Kuwait demanded better protections from male violence at a protest on Thursday in response to the murder of a woman by a man her family said they had previously reported to...
BBC Online :At least one climber on Mount Everest has tested positive for Covid-19, just weeks after the world’s tallest peak reopened to climbers following a year of closure.Norwegian climber Erlend Ness was isolated...
Reuters :“Nearly 900 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, but over 81% have gone to high- or upper middle-income countries, while low-income countries have received just 0.3%,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
Al Jazeera :A renowned Algerian scholar on Islam, Said Djabelkhir, was handed a three-year prison sentence on Thursday for “offending Islam” in three Facebook posts, but pledged to appeal and keep fighting for “freedom”...
BBC Online :The US military is sending airborne assistance to aid Indonesia’s search for a missing submarine with 53 crew.Indonesian authorities estimate they have just hours left to find the navy submarine before the...
Reuters :A hate crimes bill to combat violence against Asian Americans in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic passed the US Senate overwhelmingly on Thursday, a rare bipartisan vote in the evenly divided chamber.The...
Reuters :India’s 50 million domestic workers already had it tough. Now the mostly female force of cooks, cleaners and carers must test negative for coronavirus and get vaccinated to keep earning, a crippling new...
Reuters :The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target it hopes will spur other big emitter countries to raise their...
Reuters :Singapore is quarantining more than 1,100 migrant workers after about a dozen COVID-19 cases were found in a dormitory and was investigating the possibility of re-infections among those who had recovered from the...
The New York Times :He warned ominously of “red lines” in Russia’s security that, if crossed, would bring a powerful “asymmetric” response. He reminded Western leaders once again of the fearsomeness of his country’s...
AFP :India’s brutal new Covid-19 outbreak set records on Wednesday with more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours as hospitals in New Delhi ran perilously low on oxygen.India has been in the grips of...
BBC Online :Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving his annual state of the nation address, amid heightened tension with the West over Ukraine and jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny.He has spent more than 30...
