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Putin hopes for better ties with US under Biden
Russian President Vladimir yesterday Putin said that he hopes the administration of incoming US President Joe Biden will work with Russia to resolve disagreements between their countries.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital Covid certificates may deepen inequalities
As Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out worldwide, a push for identity proofs and digital certificates risks excluding poorer and vulnerable groups from vaccination and the benefits that come with it, according to rights experts.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
India SC backs farmers’ right to protest
The weeks-long farmers’ protest at the borders of Delhi must continue and the national capital cannot be blocked, the Indian Supreme Court said while hearing a series of petitions on the issue.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Argentine recession, exacerbated by COVID-19, increases poverty
Gustavo Delgado walks every day from his home in La Boca, a hard-scrabble neighborhood of Buenos Aires, to a nearby community pantry to find the only food that he and his family are sure to be able to eat that day.
17 December 2020, 16:37 PM
Rights group says Peru police committed 'multiple abuses' against protesters
Peruvian national police committed "multiple abuses" against mostly peaceful demonstrators in November as they protested "the very questionable removal" of then-President Martin Vizcarra, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.
17 December 2020, 14:26 PM
Top US general meets Taliban in Qatar
The top US general met Taliban representatives this week in Qatar and urged them to reduce the level of violence and increase progress towards a political solution, the US military said today.
17 December 2020, 14:01 PM
Qatar Airways announces 2 flights daily on Dhaka-Doha route
Qatar Airways has announced to operate two flights daily on the Dhaka-Doha route due to growing number of passengers.
17 December 2020, 13:59 PM
Tokyo says Covid-19 strain on hospitals is severe, raises alert to highest
The Japanese capital of Tokyo said on Thursday the strain on its medical system from the Covid-19 pandemic was severe, raising its alert level to the highest of four stages as the number of cases spiked to a record daily high of 822.
17 December 2020, 10:46 AM
Palestinians left waiting as Israel is set to deploy vaccine
Israel will begin rolling out a major coronavirus vaccination campaign next week after the prime minister reached out personally to the head of a major drug company. Millions of Palestinians living under Israeli control will have to wait much longer.
17 December 2020, 10:35 AM
Kenyan man charged with planning 9/11-style attack on US
Federal authorities on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging a Kenyan man with trying to stage a 9/11-style attack on the US on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab.
17 December 2020, 05:24 AM
China's moon probe lands back on Earth
China’s Chang’e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the first lunar samples since the 1970s.
17 December 2020, 04:51 AM
Biden to receive COVID-19 vaccine next week
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine soon.
17 December 2020, 04:36 AM
WHO-led team expected in China in January to probe Covid-19 origins: experts
An international mission led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic, a member and diplomats have told Reuters.
16 December 2020, 19:05 PM
Iran ‘very happy’ Trump leaving
President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that Iran was “very happy” over the looming departure from office of US counterpart Donald Trump, who led a campaign of “maximum pressure” against the Islamic republic.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Precedent-setting or bucking the trend?
For a few moments in late April of 2020, oil -- normally the lifeblood of the world economy -- became more expensive to store than to pay someone to take it away.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘What choice do we have?’
Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you’ve never met.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
5m more Afghans will need help in 2021: UN
The United Nations expects to have to help five million more Afghans in 2021 than this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase in conflicts, a UN official said Tuesday.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Pakistan okays chemical castration of sex offenders
Pakistan has approved the chemical castration of rapists as part of sweeping new legislation sparked by outcry over the gang rape of a mother on a motorway.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Millions pushed to ‘breaking point’
Asia-Pacific has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross said yesterday.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Wearing someone else’s face
A year into the coronavirus epidemic, a Japanese retailer has come up with a new take on the theme of facial camouflage - a hyper-realistic mask that models a stranger’s features in three dimensions.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM