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Business
Rich nations ‘exaggerate’ climate finance: study
Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities drastically underfunded, a new analysis showed yesterday.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Delicate dance
When an outgoing president hands the keys to the White House to the incoming one, another discrete handover takes place: the systems and codes for the US leader to launch a nuclear strike.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
US Senate control shifts to Democrats
Two Georgia Democrats were sworn in Wednesday as the newest members of the US Senate, handing their party control of the upper chamber just hours after President Joe Biden took office.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden’s nominee for intel chief gets Senate approval
The US Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former CIA official Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, making her the first member of newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden’s cabinet to gain approval.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden says Trump wrote him ‘very generous letter’
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that outgoing president Donald Trump had left him a “very generous” letter in the Oval Office, in keeping with tradition.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Greta wishes ‘old man’ Trump a ‘wonderful future’
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday renewed a feud with Donald Trump, saying the outgoing US president “seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future”.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Mongolian PM resigns
Mongolia’s prime minister resigned yesterday following protests and public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby.
21 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel issues tenders for 2,500 new settler homes
Israel has issued tenders for 2,500 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a watchdog said yesterday, on the eve of Joe Biden’s swearing-in as US president.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
A lotus, not a Chinese dragon: India's Gujarat changes name of fruit
The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original name is associated with China, drawing derision from the country’s opposition yesterday.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Senate leaders discuss power-sharing deal
Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the US Senate, the chamber’s top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one struck two decades ago in similar circumstances, a Democratic spokesman said on Tuesday.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘The president who started no war’
US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, touted his legacy and wished luck to the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but without acknowledging his successor by name.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
World Reactions
“Law, order and democracy, have prevailed over this disgraceful attempt to overturn the election. American democracy has proven its strength and resilience. Let’s build a new founding pact for a stronger Europe, for a stronger America and for a better world.”
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
China remains the focus
President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees promised Tuesday that the United States would stay tough on China but vowed a new era of international cooperation after Donald Trump’s divisive “America First” approach.
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Pandemic could be WHO's Chernobyl moment for reform: Review panel
The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the U.N. nuclear agency, an independent review panel said yesterday.
19 January 2021, 18:53 PM
US terms China's repression of Uighurs as 'genocide'
The Trump administration has determined that China has committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” in its repression of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today, delivering an embarrassing blow to Beijing a day before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is to take office.
19 January 2021, 18:05 PM
Road accident in India: Truck crushes 15 sleeping people
An out-of-control dumper truck crushed fifteen people to death as they slept by the roadside early yesterday in western India, authorities said.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
A ‘difficult’ balancing act
Converting large areas of land for farming to boost food supplies increases planet-heating emissions and places a greater burden on poorer nations already bearing the brunt of climate change, researchers warned yesterday.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Troops deployed in Darfur after clashes kill 155
A heavy Sudanese troop presence helped restore calm yesterday in the Darfur region, local sources said, after three days of inter-ethnic violence which claimed at least 155 lives and displaced tens of thousands.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Previous infection may offer less protection
Previous infection with the coronavirus may offer less protection against the new variant first identified in South Africa, scientists said on Monday, although they hope that vaccines will still work.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants
US President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM