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Mladic blasts genocide court as ‘child of Nato’
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic said Wednesday he had been “pushed into war” and dismissed a UN court as a “child of western powers” in a dramatic end to his appeal against his conviction for genocide.
27 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Cases rising among youth in Europe
Europe is entering a “tricky moment” with the new school year, and while classrooms have not played a major role in spreading coronavirus, there is growing evidence of youth infecting others at social gatherings, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
27 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Globally 1 in 3 children missed out on remote learning during school closures: Unicef
For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to Covid-19, “there was no such thing as remote learning”, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said today.
27 August 2020, 06:28 AM
New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole
New Zealand mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers, with a judge calling him "wicked" and "inhuman".
27 August 2020, 02:55 AM
Turkey says ‘no concessions’ in east Mediterranean row
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned Turkey would make “no concessions” in the eastern Mediterranean and told Greece to avoid taking steps that could lead to its “ruin”.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Flash floods kill more than 70 in Afghanistan
A violent flash flood killed more than 70 people and destroyed hundreds of homes just north of Afghanistan’s capital yesterday, officials said.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Sri Lanka will adopt ‘India first approach’
Sri Lanka will adopt an “India first approach” as its new foreign policy plank and protect New Delhi’s strategic security interests, the country’s Foreign Secretary Jayanath Colombage has said, seeking to allay concerns amid China’s growing presence in the island nation.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
UNSC dismisses US’s demand
United Nations has blocked a controversial bid by the US to reimpose international sanctions on Iran, with the Security Council saying it could not proceed with the disputed move.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
EU eyes initial vaccination for 40 pc of population
European Union nations, Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a Covid-19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least 40% of their populations, a step that may set back the World Health Organisation’s own vaccine blueprint.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
2 lawmakers among dozens arrested in HK
Two prominent Hong Kong opposition lawmakers were among more than a dozen people arrested yesterday in a police operation focused on last year’s huge protests, part of a widening crackdown against the city’s democracy camp.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
After port blast, rudderless Lebanon drifts towards the rocks
Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port, Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree on a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown.
26 August 2020, 16:55 PM
Iran allows UN access to alleged nuclear sites
Iran agreed Wednesday to allow a UN watchdog the access it has requested to two alleged nuclear sites, as the head of the agency ended his first visit to Tehran.
26 August 2020, 16:00 PM
White House says Trump could act unilaterally to avoid US airline layoffs
President Donald Trump could take executive action to avoid massive layoffs at US airlines, while an impasse on a new coronavirus stimulus package continues in Congress, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says.
26 August 2020, 14:23 PM
2 dead as gunfire erupts at Wisconsin protests over shooting of Black man
A third night of street protests over the police shooting of a Black man erupted into gun violence late Tuesday and early Wednesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two people and wounding one, police said.
26 August 2020, 10:31 AM
Father of youngest NZ mosque victim tells shooter there is no forgiveness
The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited him in the next life and it would be more severe than prison.
26 August 2020, 05:03 AM
Testing vaccine: Rushing could hurt others, says Fauci
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warns that distributing a Covid-19 vaccine under special emergency use guidelines before it has been proved safe and effective in large trials is a bad idea that could have a chilling effect on the testing of other vaccines.
25 August 2020, 20:18 PM
Wisconsin city braces for third night of protests over police shooting of Black man
Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are readying for a third night of unrest after arsonists have torched much of the city’s Black business district following the shooting of a Black man in the back by police.
25 August 2020, 17:30 PM
Africa declared free of wild polio
The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication has declared the region free of endemic wild polio, four years after the last case was recorded in Nigeria.
25 August 2020, 16:25 PM
Global tourism lost $320 billion in 5 months from virus: UN
The tourism global industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the UN chief said Tuesday.
25 August 2020, 05:56 AM
Twin bombings kill 15, wound scores in Philippine south
Twin blasts including a suicide bombing have killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.
24 August 2020, 18:20 PM