US to allow visitors from HK to stay for 18 months
BBC Online :Thousands of Hong Kong residents are to be offered a temporary “safe haven” in the US, President Joe Biden says.Mr Biden said that...
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Wildfire leaves California town in smoldering ruins
Reuters :The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins on Thursday, hours after the state’s largest wildfire engulfed the hamlet...
Haiti requests UN commission to probe president’s killing
Reuters :Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the...
Chaos in Manila as thousands rush to get vaccine before lockdown
Al Jazeera :The Philippine capital and several nearby provinces have headed back into a strict lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of the...
Uneasy calm in Indian Kashmir
Reuters :Troops patrolled the streets on Thursday in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, where many shops were shut to mark the second year...
Kidnappers demand ransom to free Nigerian school children
Reuters :Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last...
Global Covid cases top 199 million
International Desk :The overall number of global Covid cases has now surpassed the 199-million mark as the world continues to grapple against the devastating second...
India sees 348 custodial deaths in three years
Scroll.in :No fewer than 348 people died in police custody in different parts of India in the last three years, when at least 1,189 were...
ASEAN appoints Brunei diplomat to Myanmar
Reuters :Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have appointed Brunei’s second minister for foreign affairs, Erywan Yusof, as special envoy to...
US, Indonesia commit to South China Sea defense in strategic dialogue
Reuters :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Tuesday the launch of a “strategic dialogue” with Indonesia, and Washington said the two countries committed...
Sudan takes 1st step towards joining ICC
Al Jazeera :The Sudanese cabinet has voted to ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move bringing closer the possibility of...
KSA to accept vaccinated travellers
Dawn.com :Saudi Arabia has decided to allow entry to foreign travellers fully vaccinated with either Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccines, provided that they also receive a...