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Facebook vows to curb hate speech in India
Social media giant Facebook has admitted it has to do better to curb hate speech as it battled a storm over how it handled comments by a member of India’s ruling party who called Muslims traitors.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM
‘It’s actually murder’
Corrupt practices around medical safety gear for Covid-19 health workers is tantamount to “murder”, the World Health Organization chief said Friday.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM
California governor calls wildfires ‘deadly moment,’ urges residents to flee
Hundreds of wildfires burning across Central and Northern California that already killed six people have more than doubled in size, becoming some of the largest in state history and threatening small towns in the path of the flames.
22 August 2020, 15:09 PM
'Unofficial' world's oldest man dies in South Africa
A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world's oldest people died Saturday in South Africa, his family said.
22 August 2020, 14:50 PM
Irish minister resigns for breaching virus restrictions
Ireland’s agriculture minister resigned yesterday for breaching government coronavirus guidelines by attending a parliamentary golf society dinner.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Erdogan converts another former church into mosque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Greenland ice sheet lost half-a-trillion tonnes
Greenland’s massive ice sheet saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags about accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
‘No trace’ of poison in Navalny
Doctors treating Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny yesterday said there was no evidence to back claims he was poisoned, as aides accused authorities of risking his life by refusing to allow his evacuation to Germany for treatment.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 fallout: UK’s public debt goes over £2 trillion
Britain's economic recovery from the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has gathered pace, but government borrowing rose past the 2 trillion pound ($2.6 trillion) mark and fears of future job losses are mounting.
21 August 2020, 12:07 PM
Thai cops arrest 4 anti-govt protesters
Thai police yesterday said they have arrested four anti-government activists over a July 18 protest that triggered a wave of student-led demonstrations demanding a new constitution and elections.
20 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Junta, opposition close ranks in Mali
Mali’s opposition coalition yesterday dismissed efforts by regional powers to block a coup-driven change of government, saying it would work with the junta that ousted the president to restore stability to the country.
20 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Iraq is open for US business, prime minister says; Trump eyes oil prospects
President Donald Trump has said US companies were involved in many prospects in Iraq’s oil business, as Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi declared his country open for American business and investment.
20 August 2020, 17:03 PM
Russia to begin Covid-19 vaccine trials on 40,000 people next week
Mass testing of Russia's first potential Covid-19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be overseen by a foreign research body when it starts next week, backers of the project said on Thursday.
20 August 2020, 15:11 PM
Steve Bannon, architect of Trump’s 2016 win, charged with defrauding border-wall donors
Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, has been charged with defrauding Trump supporters in a campaign to help build his signature wall along the US-Mexico border, prosecutors say.
20 August 2020, 13:52 PM
Iran announces locally made ballistic and cruise missiles amid US tensions
Iran has displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that has a range of 1,400 kilometres and a new cruise missile, ignoring US demands that Tehran halt its missile programme.
20 August 2020, 13:36 PM
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank, military says he was planning attack
A Palestinian teenager has reportedly been killed as Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank.
20 August 2020, 13:20 PM
Putin critic Navalny fights for life, aides suspect poisoning
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after drinking tea that allies have said they believe was laced with poison.
20 August 2020, 11:54 AM
US ends agreements with Hong Kong which says it is a ‘pawn’
The US State Department says it notified Hong Kong that Washington has suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with the semi-autonomous city following China's imposition of a sweeping national security law.
20 August 2020, 06:32 AM
45 migrants killed when boat capsizes off coast of Libya
A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya and at least 45 people drowned or were missing and presumed dead, the UN said Wednesday.
20 August 2020, 00:53 AM
Belarusian leader orders police to quash protests
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered his police yesterday to put down protests in the capital Minsk, signalling an escalation after a week and a half of mass demonstrations against his rule.
19 August 2020, 18:00 PM