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G7 to counter China’s belt and road with infrastructure project - senior US official
The Group of Seven rich nations will announce on Saturday a new global infrastructure plan as a response to China’s belt and road intiative, a senior official in U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said.
12 June 2021, 07:10 AM
Putin says relations with US at lowest point in years
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with NBC News ahead of his meeting with US President Joe Biden next week, said US-Russia relations are at their lowest point in years.
12 June 2021, 02:26 AM
Reuters, New York Times win Pulitzers for coverage of racial injustice, COVID-19
Reuters and the Minneapolis Star Tribune each won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for journalism about racial inequities in U.S. policing, while the New York Times and the Atlantic were honored for chronicling the COVID-19 pandemic, the two topics that dominated last year's headlines.
11 June 2021, 19:05 PM
20 Muslim pilgrims die in Pakistan
A bus crammed with pilgrims coming back from a religious festival crashed in southwest Pakistan yesterday killing at least 20 and leaving 10 others critically injured, officials and a hospital doctor said.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Over 30,000 children risk death from famine: UN
Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-wracked Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations said yesterday.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
UK, US tie ‘indestructible’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the UK-US relationship as “indestructible” after his first meeting with President Joe Biden ahead of the G7 leaders’ summit.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Outcry as Muslim Ilhan Omar likens US, Israel to Taliban
US congresswoman Ilhan Omar faced broad condemnation Thursday including from her Democratic Party’s leadership after the Muslim lawmaker accused the United States and Israel of “unthinkable atrocities” comparable to those of Hamas and the Taliban.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘A dystopian hellscape’
The repression of hundreds of thousands of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority amounts to “crimes against humanity”, a report published Thursday by human rights group Amnesty International said.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
UK, US to sign new ‘Atlantic Charter’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden was expected to agree a new version of the “Atlantic Charter” aimed at leading the world’s pandemic recovery and bolstering ties.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
At least 11 killed in Mumbai
At least 11 people, including eight children, were killed yesterday when heavy monsoon rains caused a residential building to collapse in a Mumbai slum, Indian authorities said.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Numbers on rise after 2 decades
The world has marked the first rise in child labour in two decades and the coronavirus crisis threatens to push millions more youngsters toward the same fate, the United Nations said yesterday.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Global plastics production falls
Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen, an industry body said yesterday.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia calls Navalny US ‘agent’
Russia yesterday suggested that Washington was quick to condemn the designation of Alexei Navalny’s groups as extremist because the jailed Kremlin critic was in fact working for the United States.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Facebook to allow remote work
Facebook on Wednesday said it will give employees the option of sticking with remote work for the long term, even offering to help some interested in moving to other countries.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
BS pays $11m to hackers
JBS, one of the world’s biggest meat processors, has paid bitcoin worth $11 million in ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
New era of robot war may be underway unnoticed
In March 2020, as Covid-19 locked down the world, what may have been the first autonomous drone attacks in history were taking place on a largely unwatched battlefield in Libya.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Despite pandemic, Asia’s illegal drug trade thriving
Experts tracking the illicit drug trade in Asia have, for some time, likened it to a tsunami - and it is not stopping.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
French man gets 4-month prison sentence for slapping Macron
A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right “patriot” was sentenced to four months in prison Thursday for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face.
10 June 2021, 16:40 PM
Nigeria's Buhari tells youth to 'behave' if they want jobs
President Muhammadu Buhari told young Nigerians on Thursday that they must "behave" in order to attract jobs and investment.
10 June 2021, 15:51 PM
Man who slapped France’s Macron faces up to three years in jail in court hearing
A 28-year-old medieval history enthusiast who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron risks up to three years in jail when he appears in court for the first time on Thursday, having told investigators he acted “without thinking.”
10 June 2021, 11:00 AM