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 […]
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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 […]
FILE PHOTO: A man runs along a waterway after lockdown restrictions were implemented in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 2020. MELBOURNE: Police in Australia’s coronavirus hotspot state of Victoria stepped up patrolling today as hundreds of people in the city […]
WELLINGTON: Early voting began in New Zealand yesterday with Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern seen securing a second term in office on the back of her success in handling the coronavirus pandemic and other crises. Voters can head to the polls with about 450 advance polling stations […]
NICE: Fierce winds drove heavy rain across large swathes of France yesterday, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands of homes along the western Atlantic coast and causing destructive flooding in the southeast, officials said. An autumn storm baptised Alex buffeted Brittany overnight, with wind gusts reaching 186 km/h at […]