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Over 82 million people displaced despite Covid-19: UNHCR
The number of people fleeing wars, persecution, violence and human rights violations in 2020 rose to a record high 82.4 million despite the impact of the pandemic, according to the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).
18 June 2021, 11:26 AM
N Korea’s Kim says to prepare for ‘both dialogue and confrontation’ with US
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country should prepare for both dialogue and confrontation with the United States, particularly confrontation, state media KCNA reported on Friday, in his first direct comment on the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
18 June 2021, 05:50 AM
Gunmen kidnap more than 80 students from Nigerian school
Gunmen kidnapped more than 80 students in a raid on a school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, a teacher told Reuters.
18 June 2021, 05:42 AM
Major banks, airlines hit by internet outages
Websites of dozens of financial institutions and airlines in Australia and the United States were briefly hit by an internet outage yesterday, after a second major blackout in little more than a week.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
UK, EU condemn raid
The European Union and Britain yesterday said a police raid on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily showed that China was using a new national security law to crack down on dissent and silence the media rather than deal with public security.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Neglect may cost lives’
Some camps dotted in the forest have a few dozen people, some more than a thousand. The displaced sleep packed together under plastic sheeting for protection from Myanmar’s monsoon rains.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Juneteenth becomes US holiday
The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to create a federal holiday commemorating Juneteenth, which until now has been the unofficial fete marking the end of slavery in the United States.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
US SC rejects Republican challenge to Obamacare
The US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a Republican bid that had been backed by former President Donald Trump’s administration to invalidate the Obamacare healthcare law, ruling that Texas and other challengers had no legal standing to file their lawsuit.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Third largest’ diamond found
Botswanan diamond firm Debswana said Wednesday it had unearthed a 1,098-carat stone that it described as the third largest of its kind in the world.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden sets red line for Putin
US President Joe Biden delivered a stern warning to Russian leader Vladimir Putin over ransomware attacks emanating from Russia, saying he was prepared to retaliate against any more cyber assaults on American infrastructure.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Sinovac jab’s efficacy questioned
More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught Covid-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac and dozens have been hospitalised, officials said, as concerns grow about the efficacy of some vaccines against more infectious variants.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Chinese astronauts board space station module in historic mission
Three Chinese astronauts on Thursday flew to an unfinished space station in China's first crewed mission since 2016, expanding the country's already growing near-Earth presence and challenging U.S. leadership in orbital space.
17 June 2021, 17:57 PM
China to launch first crew to new space station today
Astronauts blasting off yesterday for China’s first crewed mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and “space treadmills” for exercise, China’s space agency said.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Republicans introduce bill to fire Anthony Fauci
Several Republican lawmakers, eager to blame a US government official for the response to the coronavirus pandemic, introduced a bill Tuesday to fire Anthony Fauci, the face of American efforts to combat Covid-19.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
North Korea’s Kim admits food situation ‘tense’
Kim Jong Un has admitted that North Korea’s food situation is “tense”, state media reported yesterday, sounding the alarm in a country that suffered a devastating famine in the 1990s in which hundreds of thousands died.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
New ICC prosecutor vows to take ‘stronger cases’ to trial
British barrister Karim Khan, 51, took over as the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor yesterday with a pledge to improve its track record by taking only its strongest cases to trial.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Bosnian woman awarded ‘Green Nobel’ for fighting to save river
Maida Bilal endured being beaten and harassed when she spent more than 500 days guarding the site of a planned mini hydropower plant on Bosnia’s Kruscica River with a team of women from her village before the building permits were annulled.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
US, Russia to resume arms control talks
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday agreed at their first summit to resume arms control talks and to return ambassadors to each other’s capitals after they were withdrawn earlier this year.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
One in five asymptomatic patients develop long Covid
Almost a fifth of Covid patients without symptoms went on to experience conditions consistent with long Covid a month after their initial diagnosis, according to a huge study published Tuesday.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel strikes Hamas sites over fire balloons; woman shot dead by Israelis in West Bank
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early yesterday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons into the south of the country, in the first flare-up between the two sides since a major conflict killed hundreds last month.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM