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Norway cops question PM over Covid-19 rule breach
Norwegian police yesterday said they have begun questioning Prime Minister Erna Solberg over a birthday party she held last month, which could lead to a fine of 10,000 crowns ($1,165) for breaking Covid-19 social distancing rules.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Dozens feared dead in migrant ship fire off Libya: charity
Roughly 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat engine caught fire off the Libyan coast during an attempted Mediterranean crossing, a rescue charity said yesterday.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel votes again
Israelis yesterday voted in a fourth election in two years, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoping a world-beating Covid-19 vaccine rollout will win him another term.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Tweet sold for $2.9m!
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for just over $2.9 million dollars on Monday. The tweet is in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) - a kind of unique digital asset that has exploded in popularity so far in 2021.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Mithun Chakraborty missing!
The West Bengal BJP yesterday released what could be its final list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls. It has 13 names - but no Mithun Chakraborty.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘US acting in a destructive way’
Russia and China yesterday said they wanted a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council amid what they called heightened political turbulence, with Moscow saying they both believed the United States was acting in a destructive way.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Australia plans more flood evacuations as rains remain heavy
Australian authorities have warned more evacuation orders may be issued as relentless rains pummelled the country’s east coast, with several regions in Sydney’s west facing the worst floods in half a century.
23 March 2021, 03:07 AM
UN chief concerned by rise in anti-Asian violence
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is concerned about the rise of violence against Asians and people of Asian descent globally during the Covid-19 pandemic, a UN spokesman said.
23 March 2021, 02:25 AM
Australia looks to reboot international education sector hit by Covid-19 pandemic
Australia’s international student sector was worth about A$40 billion (S$41.5 billion) in 2019, making it the country’s fourth-biggest export. But the Covid-19 pandemic has caused incoming student numbers to plunge.
23 March 2021, 02:15 AM
Beijing-Ottawa relations go into free-fall
The trial for Michael Kovrig, the Canadian detained more than two years ago in China on espionage charges, started yesterday, with relations between Ottawa and Beijing in free-fall.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
26.5m Nigerian children lack access to water: Unicef
Nearly one-third of Nigerian children lack access to enough water, the UN children’s agency Unicef said yesterday, calling for urgent measures to address the problem.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel confiscates pass of Palestinian FM
Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
India, Pakistan set for water-sharing talks
India and Pakistan will hold the first meeting in three years of a commission that deals with water rights on the Indus River today, the two sides said yesterday, illustrating a broader resumption of diplomatic ties.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden aides had ties to large tech companies
Top Biden administration officials had previously undisclosed ties to large corporations including tech giants Microsoft Corp, Alphabet’s Google and Facebook Inc, financial disclosures by the White House show.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
China detains three tourists for vandalising Great Wall
Three tourists who vandalised China’s Great Wall -- one of the country’s most popular historic landmarks -- have been detained and fined, officials said yesterday.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Trump to launch own social media platform: ex-aide
Donald Trump plans to return to social media soon, using “his own platform” after being banned from Twitter and other outlets, a former advisor said Sunday.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
EU imposes China sanctions
The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials, including a top security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the first sanctions against Beijing since an arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
22 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Russian jets hit gas facilities and civilian areas near Turkish border, witnesses and rebels say
Russian jets hit a gas facility, a cement factory and several towns and cities in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border as Syrian army artillery killed seven civilians and injured 14 medics in an attack on a hospital in the area, witnesses and rebel sources said.
22 March 2021, 02:17 AM
Australia to evacuate thousands as Sydney faces worst floods in 60 years
Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years.
22 March 2021, 00:49 AM
Israel takes Palestinian minister's VIP pass over ICC meeting, Palestinians say
Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.
21 March 2021, 19:07 PM