AFP :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Beijing on its treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong and the coup in Myanmar in the first conversation between top officials of the two powers since...
Online DeskAbout 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream.A wall of dust,...
AFP :Taiwan on Friday accused Beijing of pressuring Guyana into terminating a deal with the island to set up a trade office, saying it highlighted the Chinese government’s “evil nature”.Less than a day after...
World Health Organisation inspectors will visit a laboratory in China’s Wuhan city on Wednesday that American officials suggested could have been the source of the coronavirus, according to state media. The inspection of the...
Reuters :The leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia on Friday said they were seeking a special meeting of Southeast Asian nations to discuss the situation in Myanmar, where an elected government was overthrown in a...
Reuters :Brazil’s prosecutor-general has opened a preliminary investigation into the country’s president and health minister for possible negligence in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Manaus city, according to a document seen by the...
BBC :Indonesia has banned public schools from making religious attire compulsory, after the story of a non-Muslim student being forced to wear a headscarf in class went viral.“This is an individual’s right… It is...
Reuters :Maybe it was the stress. Maybe it was being cooped up with the mother-in-law. But the numbers are in, and one effect of the coronavirus lockdown is now clear: People made fewer babies....
The Palestine Chronicle :Jewish settlers Friday morning fatally shot a Palestinian near the village of Ras Karkar, northwest of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.Local sources told WAFA that Jewish settlers opened...
US President Joe Biden’s expected announcement on Thursday that he intends to allow more refugees into the United States this year will bring him face to face with a policy barrier left by his...
Reuters :Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of “vaccine passports” as a way of reopening the economy by identifying those protected against the coronavirus.Those developing the technologies, however, say...
Toronto.com :Four Bangladeshi nationals were injured in a triple shooting that took place in the Regent Park neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada on Tuesday night.According to a Facebook post of Debobrata Dey Tomal, president of...
