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...
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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...
Lockdown bambino bust: 9 months on, Italy births fall 22 percent
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...
Jewish Settlers Shoot, Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank
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...
Biden to welcome more refugees, but far from all will get in
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...
Vaccine passports: path back to normality or problem in the making?
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...
4 Bangladeshis injured in Toronto’s Regent Park shooting
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...
Afghan judge shot dead
AFP, Jalalabad :An Afghan judge was shot dead in an ambush in the eastern city of Jalalabad yesterday, police said, the third court official killed...
More countries taking repression outside borders
AFP :The murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey, the US detention of a Russian asylum applicant and the abduction of a China-born Swedish citizen...
Rival communist faction calls national strike in Nepal
ReutersA faction of Nepal’s ruling communist party declared a nationwide strike on Thursday to ramp up opposition against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli for dissolving...