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Second Hong Kong radio host arrested for sedition
A Hong Kong internet radio host was arrested yesterday under a little-used colonial era sedition law that authorities have begun to wield against Beijing’s critics.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Cuba authorizes private activity in majority of sectors
Cuba announced Saturday that private activity will be authorized in most sectors, a major reform in the communist country where the state and
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Pope appoints first woman in senior synod post
Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine.
7 February 2021, 05:16 AM
Tractors, trucks block India’s roads as farm protests widen
Thousands of farmers across India blocked roads yesterday with makeshift tents, tractors, trucks and boulders to pressure the government to roll back agricultural reforms that have triggered months-long protests.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM
US to revoke terrorist label on Huthis
The US has moved to delist Yemen’s Huthi rebels as a terrorist organization, removing a block that humanitarian groups said jeopardized crucial aid as the country’s warring sides cautiously welcomed a push for peace by President Joe Biden.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Erratic’ Trump shouldn’t get intel briefings
US President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor Donald Trump, who is awaiting a Senate impeachment trial on charges of inciting an attack on the US Capitol, should not receive classified intelligence briefings, as is customary for former presidents.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM
ICC paves way for criminal probe Says it has jurisdiction in the territories; US expresses ‘serious concerns’
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday found the court has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, paving the way for a possible criminal investigation, despite Israeli objections.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM
US won’t allow China to abuse int’l system
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Beijing on its treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong while China defended its policies in the first conversation between top officials of the two powers since President Joe Biden took office.
6 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen under arrest: UN report
The leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate has been under arrest for several months, according to a United Nations report released on Thursday, in what will be seen as a huge breakthrough in the fight against the global jihadist threat.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
China takes aim at BBC after UK revokes CTGN’s licence
The BBC came under renewed fire from Chinese officials yesterday in a diplomatic dispute a day after Britain’s media regulator revoked the TV licence of Chinese state media outlet CGTN.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Egypt frees Jazeera journo after 4 years jail: security
Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said yesterday.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia ties at ‘low point’
The European Union’s top diplomat yesterday7 said that the bloc’s ties with Russia had reached a new low following the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, but still raised hopes for cooperation.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Work together to end vaccine shortage
World Health Organization Europe’s chief appealed for European nations and Big Pharma to unite in the struggle to accelerate coronavirus inoculations, as Johnson & Johnson applied for emergency authorisation of its single-shot vaccine in the United States.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Trump refuses to testify
Former president Donald Trump refused Thursday to testify in his looming impeachment trial after being called by House prosecutors to give evidence, branding the process “unconstitutional.”
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Libya talks' participants to vote on new interim government
Participants in talks on Libya’s political future were preparing for a ballot this morning to select a new interim government, part of a UN process aimed at resolving the country’s decade of chaos with elections in December.
5 February 2021, 09:35 AM
Open insulin can be stored at up to 37C
Opened insulin can be stored for four weeks in warm conditions without losing efficacy, a study showed Wednesday, giving hope to diabetics in hot countries without access to refrigerators.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Lanka Tamils defy ban to stage independence day protest
Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils defied bans to stage protests as the Sinhala-majority government celebrated its independence day with a military parade.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
US accident victim gets first double hand, face transplant
A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world’s first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announced Wednesday.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Driving evil out’
Clanging cymbals and banging pots, Yangon residents unhappy with a putsch that ousted Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun kicking up a nightly fracas to chase out “evil spirits” -- in this case, the military.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
US ‘deeply disturbed’
The United States is “deeply disturbed” by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed there, the US State Department said on Wednesday.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM