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4 hurricane names retired after deadly destruction
The Atlantic hurricane names Dorian, Laura, Eta and Iota are being retired due to the trail of death and destruction left in their wake, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday.
18 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Dutch PM claims win in Covid-dominated vote
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte claimed an “overwhelming” victory in elections on Wednesday, vowing to use his fourth term in office to rebuild the country after the coronavirus pandemic.
18 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Takes one to know one’
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday mocked US President Joe Biden over his “killer” comment but said that Moscow would not sever ties with Washington over the spat.
18 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia wants an apology from US after Biden called Putin a killer, says Kremlin ally
Russia wants an apology from the United States after President Joe Biden said he thought Vladimir Putin was a killer and may retaliate against Washington unless it gets one, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Thursday.
18 March 2021, 09:24 AM
Asian women among 8 killed
Six Asian women were among eight people shot and killed at spas around the US city of Atlanta Tuesday, with a white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Putin will ‘pay a price’
President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the 2020 US presidential election to Donald Trump, and that they would come soon.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
China walks a tightrope in Myanmar
Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law -- Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, an unravelling country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
India fears 2nd Covid-19 wave
India needs to take quick and decisive steps soon to stop an emerging second “peak” of Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday as several countries reported spike in cases raising the possibility of new curbs.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
War in Yemen is ‘back in full force: UN
The war in Yemen is “back in full force,” the United Nations mediator Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Tuesday amid renewed attempts to get the warring parties to talk.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
US facing biggest surge of migrants in 20 years
The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration races to handle an influx of children trying to cross the US-Mexico border alone.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
10.3m displaced in last 6 months
About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority of them in Asia, a humanitarian organisation said yesterday.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
EU agrees first China sanctions in three decades
The European Union yesterday agreed to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tianamen Square crackdown.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Trump tells his supporters to get vaccinated
Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday encouraged his Republican supporters -- one of the main groups resistant to Covid-19 vaccines -- to get their shots.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Rights group slams Lanka’s ‘de-radicalisation’ law
Sri Lanka faced renewed criticism yesterday over a new “de-radicalisation” law which rights groups see as another weapon targeting dissidents and minorities in the fractured nation.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Endangered Australian songbird ‘losing its song’
Australia’s endangered regent honeyeater bird is losing its song, a sign that it could be nearing extinction, scientists warned in new research released yesterday.
17 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Haaland makes history
US Representative Deb Haaland was confirmed on Monday as Secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency and securing a central role in President Joe Biden’s sweeping plans to fight climate change.
16 March 2021, 18:00 PM
US warns China against ‘coercion’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday warned China against using “coercion and aggression” as he sought to use his first trip abroad to shore up Asian alliances in the face of growing assertiveness by Beijing.
16 March 2021, 18:00 PM
India widens virus curbs
India reported 24,492 new coronavirus cases yesterday, the sixth straight day of more than 20,000 infections, as curbs to try to stop the spread of Covid-19 were expanded in parts of the country that have recorded a surge.
16 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Attack on Afghan univ bus kills 2
Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying university staff in northeastern Afghanistan yesterday killing the driver and a student, officials said, as attacks on civilians continued, while peace talks between the government and the Taliban remained stalled.
16 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel unearths 2000-year-old biblical scroll
Israel yesterday said it had discovered pieces of a biblical scroll dating back some 2,000 years, describing the find as one of the most significant since the Dead Sea Scrolls.
16 March 2021, 18:00 PM