95-year-old Nazi death camp secretary charged with complicity in 10,000 murders
CNN:A former secretary of a Nazi camp has been charged with the murders of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.She worked at the Stutthof...
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Denmark moves forward on North Sea ‘energy island’
AFP :Denmark says it has approved plans to build an artificial island in the North Sea that could generate wind power for at least three...
UAE drastically cut funding for Palestinian refugee agency
Al Jazeera :The United Arab Emirates drastically reduced its funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in 2020, the year it signed a...
New Zealand probes new COVID case linked to quarantine facility
Reuters :New Zealand health authorities said on Saturday they were investigating a new community coronavirus infection, the fourth in two weeks among people who completed...
Libyans select surprise candidate for interim PM
AFP :Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity...
Blinken presses China on Myanmar, Uighurs, HK in first call
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...
125 missing in floods
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...
Taiwan condemns ‘evil’ China after Guyana scraps trade office
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...
WHO team to visit Chinese virus lab in Wuhan
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...
Indonesia, Malaysia seeking Asean meeting on Myanmar after coup
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...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro faces probe after hospitals ran out of oxygen
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...
Indonesia bans mandatory hijab for schoolgirls
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...