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Erdogan inaugurates landmark mosque at Istanbul main square
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was set on Friday to inaugurate a landmark mosque in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, fulfilling a long-time ambition to build a Muslim house of worship at the city’s main public space that has become an emblem of the modern Turkish Republic.
28 May 2021, 10:02 AM
Germany officially calls colonial-era killings in Namibia 'genocide', to fund projects worth €1.1bn
Germany on Friday apologised for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros.
28 May 2021, 07:45 AM
Bomb threat cited by Belarus was sent after plane was diverted - Swiss email provider
A bomb threat cited by Belarusian authorities as the reason for forcing a Ryanair jetliner carrying a dissident journalist to land in Minsk was sent after the plane was diverted, privacy-focused email provider Proton Technologies AG said on Thursday.
27 May 2021, 19:42 PM
Drugmakers eye alternative to vaccines
Prevention is better than cure -- but when it comes to Covid, what happens when people can’t get the vaccine, don’t want it, or they’re immune suppressed and it fails to stop infection?
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Thousands left homeless in India
Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India, killing 4 people.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Hong Kong House passes ‘patriots’ law
Hong Kong’s opposition-devoid legislature yesterday approved Beijing’s radical overhaul of the finance hub’s political system which reduces the number of directly elected seats and will freeze out most China critics.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
EU set to hit Belarus with new sanctions
The European Union will look at hitting Belarus’s big potash exports as well as its oil and financial sectors with new sanctions, as punishment for forcing down a Ryanair flight to arrest a journalist, foreign ministers from the bloc said.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Kids’ bid to block coal mine scores victory
Teenagers suing to block expansion of an Australian coal mine scored a “landmark” victory yesterday, with a judge agreeing the project would cause them climate-related harm.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
World nears tipping point
The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released yesterday.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
‘No relation to reality’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday brushed aside allegations from his former chief aide that his failings had caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from Covid-19, saying “some of the commentary” bore no relation to reality.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Nine killed in US mass shooting
A public transit worker shot dead eight people at a California rail yard Wednesday before turning his gun on himself as police arrived, officials said after the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Twitter slams Indian police ‘intimidation’, new IT rules
The Indian government’s battle with social media giants escalated yesterday with Twitter accusing the police of “intimidation” and slamming new IT rules that have also alarmed its peers and privacy campaigners.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Khamenei urges Iranians to ignore calls to boycott polls
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday urged Iranians to ignore calls to boycott next month’s presidential election, after several hopefuls were barred from running against ultraconservative candidates.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
UN to draft new int’l cybercrime treaty
The UN General Assembly adopted Wednesday by consensus a resolution proposed by Russia to draft a treaty against cybercrime by 2023, an initiative viewed with suspicion by Western nations who fear it could restrict free expression.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Macron seeks ‘forgiveness’
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday recognised his country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Spare us Corona Devi!
Hindu priests at an Indian temple are saying daily prayers to two coronavirus goddesses in an effort to tame the pandemic as the country battles a new infection surge.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Turkey pushed NATO allies into softening outrage over Belarus plane, diplomats say
Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.
27 May 2021, 17:03 PM
EU partly to blame: UN
The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts, and so-called “pushbacks” to Libya, the United Nations said yesterday.
26 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Family appeals to Biden to reform police
The family of George Floyd appealed Tuesday for sweeping police reform on the anniversary of the African American man’s murder by a white officer, as they met President Joe Biden at the White House.
26 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Ireland condemns Israel, sanctions on the cards
The Irish government has supported a parliamentary motion condemning the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land by Israeli authorities, in what it said was the first use of the phrase by a European Union country in relation to Israel.
26 May 2021, 18:00 PM