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Witness detentions cast shadow over Egyptian 'MeToo' movement
Student Seif Bedour wanted to support his friend, a witness in a high-profile rape case, by accompanying her to a Cairo police station when she was brought in by officers on August 28 after offering to testify on behalf of the victim, his sister says.
1 January 2021, 12:29 PM
Australia changes national anthem wording to reflect Indigenous history
Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in the world.
1 January 2021, 11:52 AM
New Year’s revelries muted by virus as curtain draws on 2020
This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with many bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget.
1 January 2021, 05:52 AM
Trump’s bid stalls in US Senate
US Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans, declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to $2,000 from $600.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Syria war killed 6,800 in 2020
The Syrian conflict claimed at least 6,800 people in 2020, the lowest annual death toll since it began nearly a decade ago, a war monitor said yesterday.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
26 held after Pak Hindu temple destroyed
At least two dozen people, including several Muslim clerics, were detained yesterday after a mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan, police said.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Assam bans madrasas
An Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party on Wednesday passed a law abolishing all Islamic schools, saying they provided sub-standard education.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
British PM Johnson’s father applying for French citizenship
The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday said he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
China holds sway in Nepal as communist factions spark crisis
Alarmed that a political crisis in Nepal could endanger China’s strategic interests and Belt and Road projects, a Chinese Communist Party emissary has held days of talks to try to stop the Himalayan country’s ruling communist party from tearing itself apart.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
US sees record daily deaths
The US logged its highest ever daily death toll from the coronavirus as the world prepares to turn the page on a grim year defined by the pandemic, with much of the globe united in one hope for 2021: that a slew of new vaccines will stamp out Covid-19.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Indian forces kill three J&K ‘militants’
Indian security forces said they killed three militants in Kashmir’s main city, Srinagar, on Wednesday after a gun battle, but families of the dead men said they were innocent.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Peacekeeping mission in Darfur ends
The United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur is set to end 13 years of peacekeeping in the vast Sudanese region yesterday, even as recent violent clashes leave residents fearful of new conflict.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump aims to fabricate ‘pretext for war’: Iran FM
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday accused outgoing US President Donald Trump of aiming to fabricate a “pretext for war” as tensions mount between the two countries.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
World risks ‘moral catastrophe’ if Covid-19 shots delayed in Africa, its CDC chief says
The world risks a “moral catastrophe” if Covid-19 vaccinations are delayed in Africa while wealthier regions inoculate their entire populations, the head of the continent’s disease control body said.
31 December 2020, 15:03 PM
Over 10 million children will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021: Unicef
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said.
31 December 2020, 13:13 PM
China approves first self-developed COVID-19 vaccine
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
31 December 2020, 04:40 AM
Black Lives Matter protests
The killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, by white police officers on May 25 in Minneapolis sparked protests across the US and inspired anti-racism rallies across the world.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden beats Trump
Deeply-divided Americans voted in record numbers in the November 3 presidential election between outgoing Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden after a nasty election campaign.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
2,170 migrants died trying to reach Spain
Nearly 2,200 migrants died trying to reach Spain by sea this year, the vast majority of them on their way to the Canary Islands, a migrant rights group said Tuesday.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Republicans have a death wish’
Donald Trump, facing a humiliating first veto override of his presidency, lashed out at Republican leaders in Congress on Tuesday as relations soured ahead of a crucial pair of runoff elections in Georgia that could determine control of the Senate.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM