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2 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Countries agree to negotiate
World Health Organization member states yesterday agreed to start work on building a new international accord setting out how to handle the next global pandemic.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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I have one simple request for all member states, and that is: end this pandemic. Just in the past week, this virus [Covid-19] has demonstrated that it will not simply disappear.”
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was released from house arrest yesterday after winning an appeal on his money laundering conviction.
30 November 2021, 18:00 PM
1 in 8 at risk of becoming child soldiers: report
One in eight of the world’s children - more than 300 million - live in conflict zones where they are at risk of becoming child soldiers, a charity warned yesterday, saying boosting school access was vital in fighting forced recruitment.
30 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Barbados stops pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth, becomes republic
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.
30 November 2021, 13:00 PM
Omicron Covid Variant: WHO flags global risk
The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday the Omicron coronavirus variant carried a very high risk of infection surges as more countries closed their borders, reviving fears over economic recovery from the two-year pandemic.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Ethiopia denies attack on Sudan, blames rebels for unrest
Ethiopia has denied it staged an attack over the weekend along its shared border with Sudan, blaming unrest in the disputed zone on rebels from its war-hit Tigray region.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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Armed troops broke up Tamil memorials for Sri Lanka’s civil war dead and beat up journalists covering one ceremony in a former battle zone, residents and media organisations said yesterday.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
1939 - Twenty Russian divisions -- almost half a million men -- invaded Finland in the “Winter War”.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
WHO says ‘never again’ as nations weigh treaty
The world must study the wreckage of Covid-19 and say “never again” by striking a pandemic preparedness treaty, the WHO said yesterday as countries gathered to build a new accord.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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The emergence of the highly mutated Omicron variant underlines just how perilous and precarious our situation is.”
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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Australia’s government said yesterday it will introduce legislation to unmask online trolls, and hold social media giants like Facebook and Twitter responsible for identifying them.
28 November 2021, 18:00 PM
New Zealand MP in labour cycles to hospital, gives birth
New Zealand Member of Parliament Julie Anne Genter got on her bicycle early on Sunday and headed to the hospital. She was already in labour and she gave birth an hour later.
28 November 2021, 10:24 AM
Rohingya genocide: Argentinian judiciary decides to open court case against Myanmar military
The Argentinian judiciary has decided to open a court case against the Myanmar military -- including Min Aung Hlaing and much of the current junta’s senior leadership -- over the genocide against the Rohingya.
28 November 2021, 09:35 AM
Vaccines likely to work
Scientific experts at the World Health Organization warned Friday that a new coronavirus variant discovered in southern Africa was a “variant of concern,” the most serious category the agency uses for such tracking.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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One hundred percent of the United Arab Emirates’ population has received at least one dose of a vaccine against Covid-19, the health ministry has said.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Calm returns to Solomons capital after deadly riots
Calm returned to the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara yesterday after days of rioting left at least three dead and reduced sections of the city to smouldering ruins.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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1912 - Albania declared its independence after more than 400 years of Turkish rule.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
19 killed in Mexico bus crash
At least 19 people were killed and 20 more injured on Friday when a passenger bus traveling on a highway in central Mexico crashed into a house, authorities said.
27 November 2021, 03:52 AM