WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s upcoming general election has the rare distinction of providing a choice of two female candidates as the country’s next leader in a poll that could be decided by the female vote. Yet there is growing criticism that neither incumbent Jacinda Ardern nor challenger Judith Collins have policies […]
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, who is still being treated for Covid-19, said today he will refuse to take part in the presidential debate next week after it was switched to a virtual format. “I’m not going to do a virtual debate,” he told Fox Business News, saying this was […]
US President Donald Trump speaks outside the White House, where he is being treated for the coronavirus disease, in Washington, US in this still image taken from social media video released on October 8, 2020. WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump today voiced rare criticism of two of his most […]
JAKARTA: Hundreds of people were arrested in Jakarta today as tens of thousands protested across Indonesia for a third day against a controversial new law that critics say will harm labour rights and the environment. Thousands of security personnel were deployed to block access to the capital and prevent workers […]
PARIS, French officials denounced today an “unacceptable” attack on two police officers who were shot and had their guns stolen while they were carrying out a surveillance operation in a Paris suburb. One of the officers was in critical condition after being shot four times, while the other was shot […]
BERLIN: New cases of coronavirus infections in Germany have soared past 4,000, official data showed today, reaching a daily level not seen since April 11 when the country was still in lockdown. Europe’s biggest economy recorded 4,058 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, including 16 deaths, according to latest data […]
JAKARTA: Nationwide protests and labour strikes against a polarising new jobs law in Indonesia continued across the country for a third straight day today. The “omnibus” jobs creation bill, passed into law on Monday, has seen thousands of people in South-east Asia’s largest economy take to the streets in protest […]
WASHINGTON: Mike Pence achieved on the debate stage what arguably President Donald Trump did not in a similar showdown last week: He offered a cogent and restrained case for why traditional Republicans and some swing voters should return the Trump-Pence ticket to the White House for four more years. For […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in his first video message since leaving hospital. Trump, eager to revitalise his ailing re-election campaign, repeatedly stressed how well […]
BEIJING: Mainland China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the same as a day earlier, the health authority said today. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas. It said there are currently 189 active cases of the […]