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Record 212 environmental activists murdered in 2019
At least 212 environmental campaigners worldwide were murdered in 2019, making last year the deadliest on record for frontline activists battling the destruction of Nature, watchdog group Global Witness reported yesterday.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Turkey tightens grip on social media with new law
Turkey’s parliament yesterday passed a controversial bill which would give the government greater control of social media, the official Anadolu news agency reported.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM
World Tiger Day: Numbers on the rise but threats persist: WWF
Tiger populations in five countries are making a comeback but the endangered species still faces major threats such as poaching, conservation group WWF and the Indian government said.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM
US Congress about to grill CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
The chief executives of four of the world’s largest tech companies, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Facebook Inc (FB.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals.
29 July 2020, 16:42 PM
Muslims begin downsized hajj amid pandemic
Mask-clad Muslim pilgrims have began the annual hajj, dramatically downsized this year as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a coronavirus outbreak during the five-day pilgrimage.
29 July 2020, 09:26 AM
Pandemic to bring surge in child wasting cases: UN
The unprecedented social and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic will see nearly seven million more children experience stunting as a result of malnutrition, the United Nations said yesterday.
28 July 2020, 18:00 PM
3b animals affected by Australia bushfires: study
Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in “one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history”, according to a report released yesterday.
28 July 2020, 18:00 PM
US man took coronavirus aid to buy Lamborghini
A man in Florida who received nearly US$4 million (S$5.5 million) in federal loans intended to help struggling businesses - and spent the money on a new Lamborghini Huracán sports car and other fraudulent purchases - was arrested and charged with three felonies, officials said on Monday.
28 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia posts $29 billion deficit in second quarter as oil revenues slump
Saudi Arabia has posted a deficit of 109.2 billion riyals ($29.12 billion) in the second quarter this year as low oil prices hurt revenues, according to a finance ministry report.
28 July 2020, 17:06 PM
US says air strike in Somalia killed 1 civilian, injured 3 in February
The United States has said one civilian was killed and three were injured in a US air strike in Somalia in February, the second such admission since it launched quarterly reports on civilian casualties in its Africa operations.
28 July 2020, 16:48 PM
Global air traffic won't return to pre-crisis level before 2024: IATA
Global air traffic will not return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic until at least 2024, the International Air Transport Association said on Tuesday.
28 July 2020, 14:45 PM
Ex-Malaysian PM Najib gets 12 years' jail in 1MDB-linked graft trial
Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak was on Tuesday (July 28) sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million (S$68.1 million) after being found guilty of all seven charges in the first of his five trials relating to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.
28 July 2020, 04:54 AM
India bans 47 more Chinese apps
India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said yesterday.
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
India’s virus epidemic is world’s fastest growing
India’s coronavirus epidemic is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing 20 per cent over the last week to more than 1.4 million
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Nearly 3,500 Afghans killed or hurt in first half of 2020
More than 1,280 Afghan civilians have been killed in the first six months of the year as fighting rages in Afghanistan despite a pact between the
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
First batch of Rafale jets for India leaves France
The first batch of five Rafale jets flew out of France yesterday and will arrive in India today when the fighter jets will officially be inducted and join
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Young adults majority of new virus cases in Canada
Canadians under the age of 39 make up a clear majority of new cases of COVID-19 in Canada, health authorities said Sunday, warning young
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
I was duped by Mahathir
Malaysia’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Anwar Ibrahim has now realised that he was duped by Dr Mahathir Mohamad when the latter promised to pass on the country’s top job to him, Sin Chew Daily reported.
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
China seizes Chengdu consulate
The American flag was lowered at the US consulate in Chengdu yesterday and Chinese authorities took charge of the building, as Beijing carried out a Cold War-style retaliatory closure of the mission.
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
26 Rohingyas found alive on Malaysian islet
Twenty-six Rohingya refugees, who had been feared drowned while trying to swim ashore on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, were found alive hiding in the bushes on a nearby islet, a senior coastguard official said yesterday.
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM