Al Jazeera :Travellers to the United Kingdom caught violating newly imposed quarantine restrictions could face a heavy fine of up to 10,000 British pounds ($13,800), and 10 years in prison, as the British government...
India, the unmatched vaccine manufacturing power, is giving away millions of doses to neighbours friendly and estranged. It is trying to counter China, which has made doling out shots a central plank of its...
AFP :The AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine can be used for people aged over 65, and where coronavirus variants of concern are circulating, WHO experts said on Wednesday, soothing fears about the jab.The World Health Organization’s...
Reuters :Iranians staged a socially-distanced commemoration of their 1979 Islamic revolution on Wednesday, parading in vehicles to avoid infection rather than on foot and displaying ballistic missiles in defiance of Western efforts to curtail...
AFP, Washington :Twitter will not allow former president Donald Trump back on the platform even if he runs for office again, the company’s chief financial officer said Wednesday.“The way our policies work, when you’re...
Reuters :A group of the world’s biggest internet companies joined Myanmar civil society on Thursday in raising alarm over cyber laws floated by the new junta, saying they would contravene fundamental rights and hurt...
Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from a Saudi prison after nearly three years behind bars, her family said on Wednesday, a case that has drawn international condemnation. Hathloul, 31, was detained...
AP :At least two people, including a local police chief, have been killed after multiple bomb blasts rocked the Afghan capital, officials said.Police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz told reporters that two people were killed and...
Donald Trump’s historic impeachment second trial, on a charge of inciting last month’s deadly storming of the US Capitol, began on Tuesday, making the Republican the first former US president to be tried in...
The New York Times :Hackers remotely accessed the water treatment plant of a small Florida city last week and briefly changed the levels of lye in the drinking water, in the kind of critical...
AFP, Reuters :North Korea maintained and developed its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions, helping fund its activities with some $300m stolen through cyber-hacks, according to a United...
Reuters :Egypt on Tuesday opened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza strip until further notice, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said, a move described as an incentive for reconciliation between the main Palestinian factions,...
